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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 13:38 and runs for 38 seconds.

That's the crux of that last sentence, isn't it? Yes, so in the 1960s, they found that if people who had just recently had an organ transplant, if they were taking in a lot of polyunsaturated fats in their diet, their immune system was suppressed and they didn't reject the transplant. At around the same time, there were studies showing that unsaturated fats retarded brain development and produced obesity. In addition, the age-related glycation products that are usually blamed on sugar are largely the result of peroxidation of the polyunsaturated fatty acids.