Ray Peat Audio Archive

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 26:48 and runs for 59 seconds.

And even though Burr demonstrated that his fats lowered metabolic requirements, it apparently didn't occur to him that maybe the diet he was feeding didn't have enough of some other nutrient. The lab in Texas showed that it was specifically vitamin B6 and zinc which were deficient in the diet that George and Mildred Burr... And not actually the polyunsaturated oils. No, the polyunsaturated oils were simply suppressing metabolism so that rats didn't need so much food. And the pig farmers knew about that and they applied it by giving the polyunsaturated fats to their pigs to fatten them by suppressing their metabolism so they wouldn't need so much food.