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wlfwp-220523-the-truth-about-estrogen-replacement-the… — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview wlfwp-220523-the-truth-about-estrogen-replacement-therapy-calcium-and-milk-myths. The excerpt begins at 00:00:00.000 and runs for 43 seconds.

So all of the mechanisms suggest that estrogen imbalance relative to progesterone is what is causing the hot flashes. The fact that you can stop a hot flash with estrogen is probably because estrogen activates cortisol and other stress hormones that block the metabolism of estrogen, and that has the potential to inhibit nitric oxide synthesis. Okay, so but nitric oxide will increase estrogen though, don't they kind of all work together? So it's just the overabundance can inhibit it. Can you kind of go over that one more time?