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kmud-130920-learned-helplessness-nervous-system-thyro… — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-130920-learned-helplessness-nervous-system-thyroid-questionaire. The excerpt begins at 20:13 and runs for 56 seconds.

And what the nitric oxide is doing is blocking energy production so the smooth muscle of the blood vessel or sphincter, wherever it is, simply doesn't have the energy to contract. It actually steals oxygen from the mitochondrion and blocks the use of any oxygen that's there. And estrogen happens to activate the enzyme that forms nitric oxide. So it works with the cholinergic system, and both of them act partly through increasing the amount of nitric oxide. And progesterone, with its quieting effect, inhibits the enzyme that forms nitric oxide.