Ray Peat Audio Archive

kmud-210416 — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-210416. The excerpt begins at 49:05 and runs for 1 minute 16 seconds.

And if you have a tumor repressor which becomes methylated, you stop repressing tumors. And if you have under-methylation of something which is considered an oncogene, you can activate oncogenes by losing the inhibiting methylation. And so the connection of DNA methylation to stress and cancer development and aging is getting a huge amount of research. But there are the second most popular mechanism of epigenetics for the conventional crowd is changes in the histones, which are -- they are able to block activation of massive amounts of DNA.