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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 30:57 and runs for 53 seconds.

Well, like doctors do today. Our dermatologist at school, he told us there's nothing we can do for skin disorders besides steroids. It works, but is that what you want? Do you want to depress your immune system so your skin gets better? Yes. Steroids aren't as bad as x-rays or polyunsaturated fats. The polyunsaturated fats work by exactly the same mechanism that the x-rays do, creating an immune deficiency, inability to produce inflammation. Now, how about the other news that these polyunsaturated fats are so unstable and so liable to oxidation because of their unsaturation that the adipose tissue in our bodies, just beneath our skin that we all have, stores... The fat tissue, adipose tissue is fat tissue.