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ewh-101118-the-science-behind-the-dangers-of-polyunsa… — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview ewh-101118-the-science-behind-the-dangers-of-polyunsaturated-fats. The excerpt begins at 13:24 and runs for 1 minute 14 seconds.

But in the process, they found that they were getting these yellow fat disease and brain degeneration, degeneration of the gonads, infertility and so on. The function of vitamin E in the 1930s had been identified as an anti-estrogen, but I mentioned that estrogen accelerates the breakdown of these fats. They saw a connection between excess estrogen and excess polyunsaturated fats and began using vitamin E as an antioxidant rather than an anti-estrogen. So the new definition of vitamin E became very important because the agricultural industry was turning to the very fattening diet of high polyunsaturated oil for foods such as corn and soy beans.