Ray Peat Audio Archive

kmud-110415-fukujima-and-serotonin — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-110415-fukujima-and-serotonin. The excerpt begins at 17:31 and runs for 1 minute 13 seconds.

The body has many responses to injury, and serotonin and estrogen are two of the most basic primitive responses to any kind of generalized injury. And, for example, if you get sunburned, in the next few hours you can measure a large amount of serotonin in the urine, and the same thing happens for any kind of injury, including ionizing radiation. Dental x-rays are enough to activate the production of serotonin, and it's one of the basic defense mechanisms. What it does is activate simple things like shifting away from oxidative metabolism to glycolytic or even a kind of hibernating shutdown of systems.