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kmud-080701-thyroid-and-polyunsaturated-fatty-acids — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-080701-thyroid-and-polyunsaturated-fatty-acids. The excerpt begins at 00:07:56 and runs for 52 seconds.

how the adrenal glands can become very tired out after. One of the ways that you can measure a low thyroid is to measure either the urine adrenaline breakdown products or the blood adrenaline. And it'll often be 20, 30, 40 times higher than normal in a hypothyroid person. And that's because adrenaline is the emergency compensation for low energy. And when the adrenaline is high, it tries to bring the energy back to normal. And it first draws glucose out of the liver. And so if you're low thyroid, you tend to deplete your glucose stores.