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kmud-080801-thyroid-metabolism-and-coconut-oil — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-080801-thyroid-metabolism-and-coconut-oil. The excerpt begins at 55:09 and runs for 33 seconds.

Ironically, since the market in its low-fat dogma of recent years is demanding leaner meats, this study showed that one could produce leaner meat and reduce the weight on pigs by reducing their intake of soy oil and instead substituting it with saturated animal fat. According to Dr. Ray Peat, the fattening effect of these polyunsaturated oils, primarily soy and corn, is due to the presence of the "essential fatty acids, linoleic and linoleic, long-chain fatty acids which have an antithyroid effect."