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blp-190722-a-casual-conversation-with-ray-peat — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview blp-190722-a-casual-conversation-with-ray-peat. The excerpt begins at 32:47 and runs for 1 minute 32 seconds.

And the solvent used to inject progesterone happens to be neurotoxic. Benzyl alcohol and benzyl benzoate were solvents that were used that were fairly toxic, killed nerves. But despite that, the progesterone was so nerve protective, it still had those beneficial effects. So I looked for some way of convincing doctors to start using progesterone because not every woman wanted to have regular injections. Sometimes the injection would cause the subcutaneous fat to collapse just from irritation. So that was where I found that it dissolved very well in vitamin E, which allowed it to be taken up with fat droplets, the chylomicrons, which allowed it to get around the livers, metabolic changes, deliver the unchanged progesterone directly to the bloodstream, where it would be delivered directly to cells in the chylomicron form. And in the cells, it happened that locally, right in the mitochondrion and other parts of the cell, the vitamin E and progesterone supported each other.