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kmud-140117-questions-and-answers — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-140117-questions-and-answers. The excerpt begins at 00:54:13 and runs for 1 minute 2 seconds.

Does it affect a lot of sugar? It doesn't cause inflammation, which would aggravate things like arthritis and other things? No, the combination of insulin and sugar suppresses some of the inflammatory things, such as nitric oxide. A diabetic is unable to oxidize sugar, and so diabetes and hypoglycemia have in common the promotion of inflammatory mediators, cytokines of various sorts, including nitric oxide. So you can either do something to lower your blood sugar too much or block its use, as in diabetes. Both of those situations turn on inflammation, and the normal use of sugar is definitely anti-inflammatory.