Ray Peat Audio Archive

kkvv-081031-ray-peat — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kkvv-081031-ray-peat. The excerpt begins at 36:56 and runs for 41 seconds.

Well, you don't need a doctor to diagnose a patient who's fine in the lab work. You need a doctor who can assess whether the patient needs thyroid, even though the lab is abnormal, and be able to explain why. The traditional doctors did fine just going by signs. And as many of the measures as they knew were reliable, such as oxygen consumption and the cholesterol level, and they would look at the palms of a person's hands. A low thyroid person can't convert carotene to vitamin A, and so they will typically accumulate orange in the calluses of their hands and feet, and their skin, their hands and feet are almost always cold because their metabolic rate is low.