Ray Peat Audio Archive

kmud-090401-thyroid-polyunsaturated-fats-and-oils — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-090401-thyroid-polyunsaturated-fats-and-oils. The excerpt begins at 14:48 and runs for 38 seconds.

Okay. Right, so it's that the carotene blocks the receptor, so your body can't use the vitamin A that's in your diet. And so it sits in the receptor, but it doesn't stimulate our receptor. It sits somewhere in the cell that doesn't stimulate the effects of vitamin A, the protective cancer-protecting effects of vitamin A. And vitamin A and thyroid work so closely together biologically that the protein that transports them is a single protein. It's called transthyretin for retinol and thyroid transport.