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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 30:43 and runs for 57 seconds.

Butter, coconut oil, cream, beef, and lamb fat, for example, are not antithyroid. The traditional diets before 1940, even in the industrial countries, people commonly got quite a bit of thyroid in their food. If you would stew a chicken or a fish, for example, the thyroid would always break up and be consumed as part of the food. And with that traditional diet, a person probably averaged about the equivalent of maybe 30 milligrams a day of armor thyroid in the natural, fresh, glandular material.