Ray Peat Audio Archive

07.20.20 Nothing is as it seems with COVID, July 20, … — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview 07.20.20 Nothing is as it seems with COVID, July 20, 2020 [861603244]. The excerpt begins at 1:07:45 and runs for 1 minute 11 seconds.

The vitamin A starts catalyzing its own breakdown. And the supplements of retinoic acid, there are three forms of it. Two of them are extremely toxic. The third one, it's a matter of having it in great excess. All of those forms of retinoic acid normally are locally derived in very particular tissues. For example, the developing embryo is the most noticeable place where you use retinoic acid to create tissues such as the eye. But if it's out of place, then it has a toxic effect and leads to the breakdown of the basic safe form, retinol, which is the form that occurs mostly in foods.