Ray Peat Audio Archive

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 38:45 and runs for 58 seconds.

One thing I wanted to kind of go back on real quick, because obviously a lot of women take hormone replacement because they have horrible hot flashes. And it obviously works. They can take it and their hot flashes. Can you explain maybe the mechanism of why estrogen helps to get rid of hot flashes? The blood sugar and nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is what lowers your body temperature during a hot flash by letting the heat come to the surface. And nitric oxide is it happens that estrogen is a great activator of nitric oxide. But a falling blood glucose or ability to use the glucose will increase your nitric oxide and cause a hot flash.