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11.19.19 Hormones, Thyroid and Much much more, Novemb… — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview 11.19.19 Hormones, Thyroid and Much much more, November 19, 2019 [715603975]. The excerpt begins at 46:13 and runs for 1 minute 50 seconds.

Yeah, in the United States at least, that's by far the most common type of stroke other than the transient ischemic And why do these little clots form, do we know? It isn't quite a deficiency of aspirin but it's related to that. A serotonin excess, serotonin increases when you're under stress, especially if you're hypothyroid And hyperventilation raises the pH of your blood by blowing out the CO2, carbonic acid should be keeping the pH of your blood towards the lower end of the range And as the pH of the blood rises from hyperventilation, your platelets lose the ability to bind serotonin And so serotonin rises in the blood when you hyperventilate, but serotonin in the brain stimulates respiration and makes you breathe harder And the doctrine for about 30 years has been claiming that serotonin produced in your intestine and carried in your bloodstream can't get into the brain to affect the respiration But in fact, very clear experiments have shown that the blood-brain barrier as far as serotonin is concerned really doesn't exist because serotonin breaks down the barrier