Ray Peat Audio Archive

polsci-120518-autoimmune-and-movement — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview polsci-120518-autoimmune-and-movement. The excerpt begins at 00:27:33 and runs for 1 minute.

hasn't stored enough glycogen to turn into glucose, the first reaction is for adrenaline to increase to try to squeeze more glycogen into your circulation for your brain primarily. And when the glycogen is absolutely gone, the adrenaline keeps activating the breakdown of fat and provides increased amounts of circulating fat to make up for the lack of sugar. But after the fat becomes a source of energy, your cells still need some sugar to maintain their basic processes, and so they turn protein into sugar. And to do that, they increase cortisol, which breaks down muscle, skin, thymus gland.