Ray Peat Audio Archive

kmud-160318-allergy — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview kmud-160318-allergy. The excerpt begins at 6:49 and runs for 1 minute 7 seconds.

One of the things that turns on the production of more mast cells or the secretion or leakage of histamine from the mast cells is prostaglandins produced from the polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially prostaglandin E2. Over the last 15 or 20 years, several researchers have seen that allergic women have babies that are born with higher polyunsaturated fatty acid content and that those babies are more likely to develop allergies at an early age. The polyunsaturated fats tend to decrease the low-density so-called bad cholesterol and increase the HDL, high-density type of cholesterol.