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kmud-180518-progesterone-vs-estrogen-listener-questio… — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-180518-progesterone-vs-estrogen-listener-questions-part2. The excerpt begins at 13:44 and runs for 1 minute 17 seconds.

Right, you said every cell in the body can secrete it essentially. Yeah, and after menopause when the production of progesterone becomes very limited there is a tendency for all of the body's tissues to begin making estrogen. So it's just the opposite of what the menopause doctors have been teaching. When progesterone disappears the breast, the uterus, the brain, the liver, the skin, the fat, muscles even begin producing estrogen, but it can't escape from the cell because it also increases the estrogen binding protein, the estrogen so-called receptor. And in the absence of progesterone the intracellular estrogen increases but it doesn't get into the blood so you measure the blood and it looks like you're estrogen deficient. Interesting, it doesn't get into the blood, huh? Yeah, exactly when you're being systemically poisoned with intracellular estrogen. And as you've mentioned before on previous shows estrogen is very responsible for edema, cell swelling and that inefficiency that comes with that water logging from an energy point of view.