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A Physiological Approach to Ovarian Cancer

by Ray Peat, PhD Several years ago, George Crile, of the Cleveland Clinic, observed that his clinic had removed only 11 thyroids that year, and that they had done more than 5000 thyroidectomies annually in the 1920s. The reason for the change was that they found that there was rarely any reason to remove the […]

Light is Right

Also see: 10 Tips for Better Sleep Quality Using Sunlight to Sustain Life Red Light Improves Mental Function Light as Medicine? Researchers explain how Red Light and Near-Infrared Radiation: Powerful Healing Tools You’ve Never Heard of PUFA, Aging, Cytochrome Oxidase, and Cardiolipin Blue Light, Cytochrome Oxidase, and Eye Injury Get a “Chicken Light” and Amp […]

Dietary Fats, Temperature, and Your Body

Also see: Why Fish Oil Fails: A Comprehensive 21st Century Lipids-Based Physiologic Analysis Charts: Mean SFA, MUFA, & PUFA Content of Various Dietary Fats Dangers of PUFA Videos Fats and Oils: The significance of temperature Fish Oil Toxicity Errors in Nutrition: Essential Fatty Acids “Curing” a High Metabolic Rate with Unsaturated Fats Fat Deficient Animals […]

Benefits of Aspirin

Also see: Ray Peat, PhD on Aspirin Aspirin and Exercise A Cancer Treatment in Your Medicine Cabinet? PUFA Promote Cancer Arachidonic Acid’s Role in Stress and Shock Sunburn, PUFA, Prostaglandins, and Aspirin Phospholipases, PUFA, and Inflammation Dietary PUFA Reflected in Human Subcutaneous Fat Tissue Toxicity of Stored PUFA PUFA – Accumulation and Aging Brain Swelling […]

Commentary on Type 2 Diabetes

Also see: The Randle Cycle Master List – Ray Peat, PhD Interviews Ray Peat, PhD on Low Blood Sugar & Stress Reaction Aldosterone, Sodium Deficiency, and Insulin Resistance Sugar (Sucrose) Restrains the Stress Response Thumbs Up: Fructose Ray Peat, PhD Quotes on Therapeutic Effects of Niacinamide Diabetes: Conversion of Alpha-cells into Beta-cells Errors in Nutrition: […]

Quotes: Thyroid, Estrogen, Menstrual Symptoms, PMS, and Infertility

Also see: Estrogen, Progesterone, and Fertility PUFA, Estrogen, Obesity and Early Onset of Puberty Benefits of Aspirin Ray Peat, PhD on the Menstrual Cycle Ray Peat, PhD on Thyroid, Temperature, Pulse, and TSH But the problem remains two fold: the need for recognition that low thyroid function very often can provoke menstrual problems, and the […]

PUFA, Fish Oil, and Alzheimers

Also see: Brain Swelling Induced by Polyunsaturated Fats (PUFA) Fish Oil Toxicity Women, Estrogen, and Circulating DHA PUFA – Accumulation & Aging Fat Deficient Animals – Activity of Cytochrome Oxidase “Curing” a High Metabolic Rate with Unsaturated Fats Glucocorticoids, Cytochrome Oxidase, and Metabolism Dietary PUFA Reflected in Human Subcutaneous Fat Tissue Benefits of Red Light […]

The Perils of PUFA: Oxidative Stress

Excerpt from Precious Yet Perilous by Chris Masterjohn The Perils of PUFA: Oxidative Stress In 1985, the lipid researcher Hugh Sinclair gave a pre-banquet speech on his seventy-fifth birthday before the Second International Congress on Essential Fatty Acids, Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes in London, in which he described the deleterious effects of one hundred days on an […]

Errors in Nutrition: Essential Fatty Acids

Also see: Charts: Mean SFA, MUFA, & PUFA Content of Various Dietary Fats Unsaturated fatty acids: Nutritionally essential, or toxic? by Ray Peat, PhD “Curing” a High Metabolic Rate with Unsaturated Fats Fat Deficient Animals – Activity of Cytochrome Oxidase Anti-Inflammatory Omega -9 Mead Acid (Eicosapentaenoic acid) Protective “Essential Fatty Acid Deficiency” Cholesterol and Thyroid […]

Precious Yet Perilous: Understanding the Essential Fatty Acids

Precious Yet Perilous Health Topics – Know Your Fats Understanding the Essential Fatty Acids by Chris Masterjohn George and Mildred Burr traversed the long roads leading from California to Minnesota in a Model T Ford Roadster in 1928, smuggling their two cages of Long-Evans rats into hotel rooms under overcoats to keep them safe from the […]

Have L.A.’s homeless people dodged a COVID-19 catastrophe?

Source By GALE HOLLAND STAFF WRITER AUG. 21, 2020 8 AM PT When the COVID-19 pandemic erupted, advocates predicted that a “time bomb” was about to go off in the homeless community. Many homeless people live under conditions worse than those of a refugee camp, with health problems that predispose them to severe illness. Researchers feared they’d succumb […]

Calcium to Phosphorus Ratio of Vegetables and Fruits

Also see: Calcium to Phosphorus Ratio, PTH, and Bone Health Calcium to Phosphorus Ratio of Milk, Cheeses, Ice Cream by DrJ on RayPeatForum Calcium Paradox Source of Dietary Calcium: Chicken Egg Shell Powder Low CO2 in Hypothyroidism Blood Pressure Management with Calcium & Dairy Hypertension and Calcium Deficiency Excess Dietary Phosphorus Lowers Vitamin D Levels […]

Low Estrogen Content in Milk

Also see: Toxic Plant Estrogens Calcium to Phosphorus Ratio, PTH, and Bone Health Calcium Paradox Source of Dietary Calcium: Chicken Egg Shell Powder Low CO2 in Hypothyroidism Blood Pressure Management with Calcium & Dairy Hypertension and Calcium Deficiency Excess Dietary Phosphorus Lowers Vitamin D Levels Fatty Acid Synthase (FAS), Vitamin D, and Cancer Phosphate, activation, […]

VIDEO: Are Happy Gut Bacteria Key to Weight Loss?

Also See: Endotoxin: Poisoning from the Inside Out Ray Peat, PhD on Endotoxin Thumbs Up Fructose Protective Effects of Citrus Flavanoid Naringenin Bowel Toxins Accelerate Aging Ray Peat, PhD on the Benefits of the Raw Carrot Protection from Endotoxin Endotoxin-lipoprotein Hypothesis Protective Bamboo Shoots The effect of raw carrot on serum lipids and colon function […]

Can Endurance Sports Really Cause Harm? The Lipopolysaccharides of Endotoxemia and Their Effect on the Heart

Also See: Endotoxin: Poisoning from the Inside Out Ray Peat, PhD on Endotoxin Exercise Induced Stress Stress — A Shifting of Resources Exercise and Endotoxemia Carbohydrate Lowers Exercise Induced Stress Low carb + intensive training = fall in testosterone levels Exercise and Effect on Thyroid Hormone Exercise Induced Menstrual Disorders Ray Peat, PhD: Quotes Relating […]

Universal Principle of Cellular Energy

Also see: Mitochondrial Medicine Protect the Mitochondria Collection of Ray Peat Quote Blogs by FPS Carbon Dioxide as an Antioxidant Carbon Dioxide Basics Comparison: Carbon Dioxide v. Lactic Acid Comparison: Oxidative Metabolism v. Glycolytic Metabolic Promoters of Efficient v. Inefficient Metabolism ATP Regulates Cell Water Cardiolipin, Cytochrome Oxidase, Metabolism, & Aging High Cholesterol and Metabolism […]

Coffee Done Right – Tips to Help Avoid Coffee Intolerance

Also see: Diet, nutrition, physical activity and liver cancer Caffeine: A vitamin-like nutrient, or adaptogen by Ray Peat, PhD Coffee Inhibit Iron Absorption Low Blood Sugar Basics Ray Peat, PhD on Low Blood Sugar & Stress Reaction Stress – A Shifting of Resources Sugar (Sucrose) Restrains the Stress Response Hope for Hypoglycemia: It’s Not Your […]

Protective Progesterone: Menstrual Cycle Related Epilepsy (Catamenial Epilepsy)

Also see: Epilepsy and Progesterone by Ray Peat, PhD Estrogen, Glutamate, & Free Fatty Acids Estrogen’s Role in Seizures The Brain – Estrogen’s Harm and Progesterone’s Protection Women, Estrogen, and Circulating DHA PUFA, Fish Oil, and Alzheimers Ray Peat, PhD on the Menstrual Cycle Autoimmune Disease and Estrogen Connection Estrogen, Progesterone, and Epilepsy: What’s the […]

Mitochondrial Medicine

Also see: Protect the Mitochondria Carbon Dioxide as an Antioxidant Promoters of Efficient v. Inefficient Metabolism ATP Regulates Cell Water Cardiolipin, Cytochrome Oxidase, Metabolism, & Aging High Cholesterol and Metabolism Mitochondria and mortality Mitochondrial medicine Low Blood Sugar Basics The Cholesterol and Thyroid Connection Thyroid Status and Oxidized LDL The Truth about Low Cholesterol Hypothyroidism […]

Dr. John R Lee Talks about Progesterone, Estrogen

Also see: Hormonal profiles in women with breast cancer Ray Peat, PhD on the Menstrual Cycle SOS for PMS PUFA Increases Estrogen PUFA Inhibit Glucuronidation PUFA Promote Cancer Maternal PUFA Intake Increases Breast Cancer Risk in Female Offspring Estrogen and Bowel Transit Time Autoimmune Disease and Estrogen Connection Study: Acquired Breast Cancer Risk Spans Multiple […]

Ray Peat, PhD on Brewer’s Yeast

Also see: Collection of Ray Peat Quote Blogs by FPS Collection of FPS Charts Master List – Ray Peat, PhD Interviews Diabetes: Conversion of Alpha-cells into Beta-cells The Streaming Organism The Randle Cycle Bisphenol A (BPA), Estrogen, and Diabetes Insulin Inhibits Lipolysis Aldosterone, Sodium Deficiency, and Insulin Resistance “Many people with diabetes have used brewer’s […]

PUFA, Ketones, and Sugar Restriction Promote Tumor Growth

Also see: How cancer cells rewire their metabolism to survive Tumor Bearing Organisms – Lipolysis and Ketogenesis as Signs of Chronic Stress Fatty Acid Synthase (FAS), Vitamin D, and Cancer Free Fatty Acids Suppress Cellular Respiration PUFA Promote Cancer PUFA Decrease Cellular Energy Production Israeli Paradox: High Omega -6 Diet Promotes Disease Low Blood Sugar […]

Cheese making dates back 7500 years

Also see: Cheese Chunks Adorn Ancient Mummies Calcium Paradox Hypertension and Calcium Deficiency Blood Pressure Management with Calcium & Dairy Calcium to Phosphorus Ratio, PTH, and Bone Health Low CO2 in Hypothyroidism Fatty Acid Synthase (FAS), Vitamin D, and Cancer Parmigiano Reggiano cheese and bone health Source of Dietary Calcium: Chicken Egg Shell Powder Milk […]

Heart Arrhythmia

Also see: Protect the Mitochondria Thyroid Status and Cardiovascular Disease “Normal” TSH: Marker for Increased Risk of Fatal Coronary Heart Disease The Cholesterol and Thyroid Connection High Blood Pressure and Hypothyroidism A Cure for Heart Disease Hypothyroidism and A Shift in Death Patterns High Estrogen and Heart Disease in Men Unsaturated Fats and Heart Damage […]

Lactose Intolerance: Starch, Fructose, Sucrose, & Thyroid Status

Also see: Hypothyroidism, Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth, & Lactose Intolerance Autoimmunity and Intestinal Flora Thumbs Up: Fructose Am J Physiol. 1995 Jun;268(6 Pt 1):G1066-73. Diet-induced changes in gene expression of lactase in rat jejunum. Goda T, Yasutake H, Suzuki Y, Takase S, Koldovský O. To explore the mechanisms by which jejunal lactase activity is modified by […]