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kmud-160916-antioxidant-theory-and-continued-war-on-c… — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-160916-antioxidant-theory-and-continued-war-on-cancer. The excerpt begins at 15:29 and runs for 1 minute 8 seconds.

The electrons activate the iron, which then attacks any of the polyunsaturated fats in the environment. And that sets up an oxygen-consuming system, which produces nothing of value. The electrons have no place proper to go, so they go to iron, which then gives its electron to the polyunsaturated fat, which becomes a free radical and consumes, reacts directly, then sometimes with oxygen or with more iron. And you get cycles of oxidation without purpose. Right, okay, so you want the oxidation to be in the cell producing carbon dioxide using sugar and oxygen and the whole proper cellular respiration to be going on, not to where you're in this reduced state where your body, the PUFA, the polyunsaturated fats are so hungry for oxygen and so is the iron, and so those things are oxidizing and not producing. Is that a good way to understand it?