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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 23:02 and runs for 1 minute 14 seconds.

So the effect of thyroid is to stop excess nitric oxide or excess cholinergic function or excess estrogen. But the medical ideas that have been built up on the idea that estrogen is a therapeutic thing across the spectrum and that nitric oxide is beneficial because it's produced by multi-billion dollar drugs, these interlock so that they argue that if estrogen produces nitric oxide, then nitric oxide is good and so on. Each thing is used as an argument for the other, but when you put them in the context of thyroid and progesterone, you see that the actual problem such as high blood pressure can involve increased nitric oxide, even though that goes against the doctrine.