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kmud-120720-blood-pressure-regulation-heart-failure-muscle-atrophy — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-120720-blood-pressure-regulation-heart-failure-muscle-atrophy. The excerpt begins at 00:10:26.760 and runs for 52 seconds.

My thesis advisor, Arnold Soderwall, did experiments in which he showed that you could prevent middle-aged infertility just by increasing the amount of vitamin E in the animal's diet progressively and extrapolating to human levels, it would be the equivalent of 400 units of vitamin E per day by the age of about 45 to maintain fertility. But that amount increases if you increase the amount of polyunsaturated fat in the diet. If you carefully avoid the polyunsaturated fats, your requirement for vitamin E is very low. It creeps up gradually with aging.