Ray Peat Audio Archive

wlfwp-210701-vitamin-D-calcium-and-mineral-metabolism — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview wlfwp-210701-vitamin-D-calcium-and-mineral-metabolism. The excerpt begins at 00:00:00.000 and runs for 51 seconds.

[Music] I think it's the situation between the cholecalciferol or the 25-hydroxyform and the 1,25-dihydroxy. The relationship is very analogous to what happens when your thyroid is low, your actual thyroid hormone. Your body increases the TSH, thyroid stimulating hormone, in supposedly a reaction to normalize things, but in fact the TSH itself is an irritant and produces the bad symptoms of hypothyroidism as the TSH rises and with a progesterone deficiency. The absence of progesterone is one problem, but the fact that when progesterone is low, your body increases the luteinizing hormone and the luteinizing hormone is pro-inflammatory