Ray Peat Audio Archive

kmud-110218-inflammation-2 — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-110218-inflammation-2. The excerpt begins at 21:53 and runs for 45 seconds.

Progesterone was suppressed and ignored because it would cure the things that estrogen was claimed to cure, and actually caused. And it couldn't be patented, as you said. Yeah. And prolactin had many toxic effects that were well-recognized. But since estrogen increases prolactin, there was a great pressure not to think very much about what it means that prolactin causes bone loss and contributes to osteoporosis. It wasn't popular to think of the fact that estrogen increases prolactin. And serotonin is another thing that has been strongly influenced by this inverted interpretation of estrogen because estrogen increases exposure to serotonin.