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 14:12 and runs for 1 minute 14 seconds.

So the action of the COVID virus is to turn on our basic inflammatory system, and serotonin is activated by that. It interacts very closely with angiotensin. The vasoconstricting effect of angiotensin, which it's named for, involves serotonin, which -- that's why serotonin got its name for increasing the tone of blood vessels. So angiotensin and serotonin are historically and culturally interrelated. And the things that -- one of the early discoveries of the Chinese in treating the COVID infection included cinansurin, which is a well-established anti-serotonin agent.