Ray Peat Audio Archive

eluv-080918-fats — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview eluv-080918-fats. The excerpt begins at 4:11 and runs for 35 seconds.

It was called yellow fat disease and that was traced to the unsaturated fats in the fish. So the early vitamin E studies showed that it would protect to a great extent against the overexposure to the unsaturated fats. And that led to vitamin E being thought of as an antioxidant primarily. Though vitamin E originally, research showed that it was an anti-estrogen for various reasons that came to be described only as an antioxidant because it protected against the polyunsaturated fat excess.