Ray Peat Audio Archive

my-big-fat — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview my-big-fat. The excerpt begins at 34:55 and runs for 59 seconds.

productive use at puberty. And then when growth ceases in the 20s, when you're no longer diluting those stored PUFA from the environment, the rate of accumulation increases so that by middle and old age, the metabolic rate is much slower, the brain and arteries and other tissues are starting to fill up with the largely cholesterol esters of the polyunsaturated fats, also the stored triglycerides, all of these become more polyunsaturated with aging. And I think the basic reason for that is that the double bonds, the more the double bonds the fat has,