Ray Peat Audio Archive

polsci-120122-progesterone-1 — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview polsci-120122-progesterone-1. The excerpt begins at 38:14 and runs for 1 minute 43 seconds.

you in similar ways possibly so what did you do after you left the lab Ray you got your PhD and did you keep working with progesterone after that? Not much it was several years until I was doing nutrition consulting and I think the first time I decided I was giving talks to medical groups and trying to convince them to use progesterone but I was just working out diet changes that could optimize the hormones increase thyroid and lower estrogen and I was hoping that doctors would come to understand why they shouldn't give estrogen because there's really no such thing as an estrogen deficiency any tissue that's injured will become a source of estrogen production and the absence of estrogen in the blood stream it often means that there's an excess of estrogen inside cells because when progesterone is adequate it will destroy the proteins that bind estrogen inside cells causing the harmful estrogen effect.