Ray Peat Audio Archive

rainmaking-140602-energy-protective-materials — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview rainmaking-140602-energy-protective-materials. The excerpt begins at 1:17:22 and runs for 52 seconds.

When we metabolize cholesterol, what happens is under the influence of thyroid hormone, which stimulates oxidation, and vitamin A, which activates the enzymes to clip a chain off cholesterol, thyroid and vitamin A are the factors we need mostly for producing pregnenolone from cholesterol. So if you're low in cholesterol or thyroid or vitamin A, you're necessarily going to be deficient in pregnenolone, and pregnenolone is the immediate precursor to progesterone and DHEA. Progesterone is the precursor to cortisol. DHEA is the precursor to testosterone and other androgens and estrogen.