Ray Peat Audio Archive

kmud-150821-longevity-and-nootropics — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-150821-longevity-and-nootropics. The excerpt begins at 37:04 and runs for 45 seconds.

I know you've spent quite a bit of time talking about learned helplessness and how that plays psychologically into physiology and how it can have definite effects on the organism in terms of decreasing its survival odds. That brings up another product line that is being pushed recently of the methylating agents because learned helplessness is a matter of imprinting, turning off the genes that should enliven you, increase your adaptability. Too much methylation shuts things down, makes you helpless and that process happens progressively with aging.