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jf-20072019-thyroid-hypothyroidism-and-diet-lifestyle… — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview jf-20072019-thyroid-hypothyroidism-and-diet-lifestyle-exercise-to-fix-it. The excerpt begins at 36:44 and runs for 1 minute 42 seconds.

the body either in the bile or urine it quickly accumulates to an excess and at the same time the liver has started letting estrogen stay in the body the low energy is also decreasing the ability to metabolize cholesterol and you can't make progesterone and DHEA and the protective steroids which counteract estrogen testosterone and DHEA fall as the estrogen increases when something has damaged its liver any kind of injury sickness or traumatic injury that sends a man to a hospital when they give a blood test they will often find his estrogen level is two or three times or more higher than normal even higher than the woman's normal estrogen level just because stress of any kind is likely to stop that liver function from getting rid of estrogen and as estrogen accumulates it blocks all of the thyroid functions and since the thyroid is necessary to activate the liver to excrete estrogen then trauma can set up a chronic hypothyroid state and glandular failure organ failure and so on.