Ray Peat Audio Archive

blp-200807-what-s-so-happy-about-serotonin? — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview blp-200807-what-s-so-happy-about-serotonin?. The excerpt begins at 48:23 and runs for 51 seconds.

Speaking of serotonin in the early stages, obviously it means that there's a greater -- and autism is skyrocketing and a greater chance of, like, all kinds of, like, trouble. This also means sickness and rigidity later in life or even in subsequent generations, even if you don't develop autism or something like that, right? You know, serotonin is one of the main factors in increasing DNA methylation, turning off DNA copying into proteins. That happens progressively with aging, and aging and stress cause it to be passed on to the -- through the egg and the sperm, it's passed on to the offspring.