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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 48:26 and runs for 42 seconds.

And so that impairs your liver function by starving it for protein. When the liver isn't functioning well, it can't store enough sugar to get you through the night with a steady sugar level. And first, your adrenaline surges to try to get more sugar out of your liver. When your liver is depleted, then your cortisol rises to turn some of your muscle tissue and the thymus tissue and skin and other things into sugar to keep your sugar up to a survival level during the night.