Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the key player in O2 transport due to 1) vasodilation and 2) the the Bohr effect (or the Bohr law). The Bohr effect explains oxygen release in capillaries or why red blood cells unload oxygen in tissues. The Bohr effect was first described in 1904 by the Danish physiologist Christian Bohr [...]
Is 98.6 Really Normal? A great article provided by Women’s Health Connections that includes discussion of the work of Ray Peat, PhD and Broda Barnes, MD, PhD.
Is 98.6 Really Normal? A great article provided by Women’s Health Connections that includes discussion of the work of Ray Peat, PhD and Broda Barnes, MD, PhD.
Thyroid Hormone Therapy: Cutting the Gordian Knot Supplement to The Art of Getting Well “Medical data is for informational purposes only. You should always consult your family physician or one of our referral physicians prior to treatment – The Arthritis Trust of America Thyroid: Master Gland & Regulator The human body, from one perspective, is [...]
Thyroid Hormone Therapy: Cutting the Gordian Knot Supplement to The Art of Getting Well “Medical data is for informational purposes only. You should always consult your family physician or one of our referral physicians prior to treatment – The Arthritis Trust of America Thyroid: Master Gland & Regulator The human body, from one perspective, is [...]
by Raymond F. Peat, Ph.D. Medical data is for informational purposes only. You should always consult your family physician, or one of our referral physicians prior to treatment. (Formerly published in The Journal of the Rheumatoid Disease Foundation, Volume 1, Number 1), The Roger Wyburn-Mason and Jack M. Blount Foundation for the Eradication of Rheumatoid [...]
by Ray Peat, PhD Since I am trying to discuss a complex matter in a single article, I have separately outlined the essential technical points of the argument in a section at the beginning, then I explain how my ideas on the subject developed, and finally there is a glossary. If you start with “Short-day [...]
by Ray Peat, PhD Since I am trying to discuss a complex matter in a single article, I have separately outlined the essential technical points of the argument in a section at the beginning, then I explain how my ideas on the subject developed, and finally there is a glossary. If you start with “Short-day [...]
by Ray Peat, PhD A review of the use of estrogens reported in J.A.M.A. (only up to 1987) found nearly 200 different “indications for its use. (Palmlund, 1996.) Using the conservative language of that journal, such use could be said to constitute wildly irresponsible “empirical” medical practice. More appropriate language could be used. Pollution of [...]
by Ray Peat, PhD When I started graduate school in biology at the University of Oregon, cell “membrane” research was a thriving business, almost as lucrative as genetics. Years earlier, I had been intrigued by Linus Pauling’s suggestion that anesthetics might act by “structuring” the water in nerve cells, and in trying to understand the [...]
