Ray Peat Audio Archive

kmud-181116-skin-cancer — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-181116-skin-cancer. The excerpt begins at 00:09:14.360 and runs for 1 minute 2 seconds.

organs, the machinery for producing cholesterol declines with aging roughly 50% by old age and in the skin it becomes obvious that the vitamin D isn't produced in the sunlight but every organ, the cholesterol has many functions. The brain produces steroids from cholesterol the same way the gonads and adrenal glands do. The skin can produce steroid hormones from cholesterol and any injury to the skin, even intense blue light or injecting irritating substances will cause the skin to defensively increase the production of both cholesterol and the vitamin D derived from it to the extent