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jf-190601-cortisol-low-testosterone — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview jf-190601-cortisol-low-testosterone. The excerpt begins at 00:04:36.160 and runs for 1 minute 5 seconds.

With increasing age or malnutrition, anything that interferes with the production of these protective steroids makes you then shift over to the emergency production of cortisol. And all of these protective steroids block the effect of cortisol so that you can take a cortisol pill or prednisone or whatever and have very little harm from it if you're fairly saturated with progesterone, DHEA, testosterone. Because they're preventing the action as well as taking care of some of the things that cortisol would produce. For example, cortisol maintains your blood sugar level so that you can keep working.