Ray Peat Audio Archive

polsci-080911-thyroid-and-regeneration — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview polsci-080911-thyroid-and-regeneration. The excerpt begins at 17:59 and runs for 51 seconds.

Yeah, if a person is low in thyroid going into the pregnancy, or if they don't eat enough protein and certain vitamins so that the liver can function, the liver, in experiments if you put a source of estrogen where it goes directly to the liver and measure the amount coming out of the liver, in a healthy person it's 100% going in and 0% coming out, meaning that the liver totally inactivated the estrogen. But if it doesn't have enough protein or certain vitamins, the liver can't inactivate estrogen and so 100% goes in and maybe 99% of it still comes out.