Ray Peat Audio Archive

ewh-110315-estrogen-vs-progesterone — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview ewh-110315-estrogen-vs-progesterone. The excerpt begins at 33:05 and runs for 1 minute 28 seconds.

And thyroid used to be in the 1940s and before was recognized as the basic fertility drug. And as progesterone came to be understood, it was seen that thyroid is needed to turn cholesterol into progesterone to maintain a healthy pregnancy. And increasingly, one of the environmental factors that impairs liver function, increases estrogen activity, and inhibits thyroid function is the unsaturated oil, polyunsaturated so-called essential fatty acids. These are all antithyroid and pro-estrogen and anti-progesterone. And some French researchers who had been hearing the propaganda about fish oil being good for the brain decided that they would demonstrate that fetuses are smarter when the mother is getting a fish oil supplement by doing a sound and response test on the woman's abdomen, getting the fetus reaction to a sound.