Ray Peat Audio Archive

kmud-130315-palpitations-and-cardiac-events — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-130315-palpitations-and-cardiac-events. The excerpt begins at 11:55 and runs for 1 minute 4 seconds.

And also then the effects in the body, then estrogen has -- I wouldn't say -- you didn't say it has a wider range of effects than progesterone, but that it's -- Well, it does. It affects every system, but in pretty much exactly the opposite way that estrogen does. Any tissue that's injured will begin producing its own estrogen. So the idea that a woman is estrogen deficient at menopause is just a complete fabrication. Someone was measuring the estrogen manufactured in a monkey's ovary and to measure the change from the blood going into the blood coming out of the ovary as a control, and they measured the blood going into the arm and the blood coming out of the arm of the same monkey and found that the monkey's arm was producing more estrogen than the ovary.