Ray Peat Audio Archive

06.21.21 Pear Ray [1073174857] — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview 06.21.21 Pear Ray [1073174857]. The excerpt begins at 1:20:42 and runs for 1 minute.

Yeah, a chronic tendency towards low thyroid increases the problems with the bacteria in the gut, makes the intestine more susceptible to inflammation, and then that shifts the type of bacteria that are favored by the intestine. So it's a complex, interactive cycle. Stress tends to create the conditions that create more stress. Yes, so that pesky thyroid again, so having a low thyroid actually messes with the little guys in the terrain that makes everything happy. Yeah, and that was one of the things that got me interested in high altitude because my allergies would tend to disappear when I was up around 7,000 or 8,000 feet altitude for a few weeks.