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 22:38 and runs for 43 seconds.

Serotonin is one of the means by which estrogen increases prolactin. And serotonin does many of the harmful things that estrogen and prolactin do, including a direct cause of bone loss. People who take the fluoxetine type of antidepressants are seen to have a lot of premature bone loss because of the excess exposure to serotonin and the associated prolactin. And serotonin is, in a way, kind of a cofactor for estrogen. Estrogen increases serotonin systemically, and serotonin, in turn, increases the production of estrogen.