Ray Peat Audio Archive

eluv-140101-effects-of-stress-and-trauma-on-the-body — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview eluv-140101-effects-of-stress-and-trauma-on-the-body. The excerpt begins at 00:01:33.640 and runs for 51 seconds.

Just skipping a meal can put you in really serious stress, but a healthy person stores something like seven or eight ounces of glucose in the form of glycogen in the liver and muscles and brain and since At rest muscles can burn primarily fatty acids Your brain is the main thing that consumes Glucose so if you're More or less Inactive and relaxed you can easily go 12 to 15 hours without eating and without having any stress at all but if you're not able to store that much glycogen and