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kmud-101119-endotoxins — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-101119-endotoxins. The excerpt begins at 26:33 and runs for 44 seconds.

So if you want to look at it, the estrogen is the bad guy, progesterone is a good guy, and these bacteria tend to increase the estrogen in relation to the progesterone. And then for the polyunsaturated fats, those consist of fats from mainly seeds, nuts and seeds, almond oil, sunflower oil, safflower, corn, soy, cotton seed, all those liquid oils except olive oil, which is not very polyunsaturated. Olive oil is only 10% polyunsaturated. And the saturated fats are the ones that are antibacterial, so they're antimicrobial, and they will inhibit the bacterial growth in the intestine.