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 13:57 and runs for 58 seconds.

And I started seeing how relevant Hans Selye's work was showing the stress shock imitating effect of estrogen. And in fact, any kind of shock or stress has estrogenic effects. You can make an animal go into estrus by irradiating it, not just its head or ovaries, but any part of the body. Something is produced that has an estrogenic effect. If you put a plastic bag over a rat's head, it goes into estrus. Suffocation activates the so-called estrogen receptors and will actually increase the production of estrogen and the sensitivity to estrogen.