Ray Peat Audio Archive

kmud-190118-skin-cancer-3 — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-190118-skin-cancer-3. The excerpt begins at 33:27 and runs for 1 minute 37 seconds.

cholesterol. Yeah. When you're low density, cholesterol is low. That's what increases the cancer risk or dementia risk, too. But the things that poison your liver or stress you increase the HDL. And it happens that that protein that forms the HDL is anti-inflammatory. So it's a defensive reaction to stress. Estrogen and alcohol, for example, will increase the HDL defensively. But the LDL is a protective source of the cholesterol. And if the triglycerides are fairly saturated, they aren't very harmful. They found that heart failure is actually less of a problem if your triglycerides are high. But if the triglycerides are polyunsaturated, that goes with interference with the function of the cholesterol. And free fatty acids are the dangerous form of fats in the blood. They have multiple interference, for example, with oxidative metabolism and the use of sugar. But the triglycerides are pretty innocuous. They're just evidence that you're under stress and not using your sugar properly.