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wp-121123-foundational-hormones — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview wp-121123-foundational-hormones. The excerpt begins at 21:41 and runs for 56 seconds.

And when some of these women who had had severe symptoms of high estrogen and low progesterone, when some of them had their ovaries removed, the corpus luteum, which means the yellow body where progesterone is synthesized, these parts of the ovary were found to be bright red. They had accumulated carotene in place of vitamin A and carotene at that high concentration competes for the enzymes that use vitamin A, and so it has an anti-vitamin A function. And unless people eat things like chicken livers and once again egg yolks, or take cod liver oil, which is not very pleasant, they're probably not getting enough vitamin A from that retinol source.