Ray Peat Audio Archive

sourcenutritional-120512-brain-and-tissue-1 — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview sourcenutritional-120512-brain-and-tissue-1. The excerpt begins at 16:51 and runs for 1 minute 4 seconds.

It's hard to say because being an unsaturated oily material, it can interfere with thyroid function. So the amount you need corresponds exactly to the level of thyroid activity you have. And a low thyroid person can get symptoms of vitamin A poisoning from just a very small amount like 5,000 units, where when I was in my teens and 20s, I found that I needed 50 to 100,000 units to prevent having acne or even leukoplakia. Following dental x-rays, I would get these white, spongy growths inside my cheeks that dentists said were either cancerous or precancerous, and I found that these big doses of vitamin A would clear it up completely in a week.