Not even 50 years ago having a bad day meant you could slap your wife around a bit after work. You didn’t have to say anything and she completely understood.
I think it was a little before Szent-Gyorgyi's heart experiment that Hans Selye had discovered that a large dose of estrogen created a shock-like state. Shock and stress cause estrogen to increase, and decrease progesterone and testosterone. - ray peat
To provide usable energy to the over-stressed brain (and heart), R.L. Veech has advocated the use of ketones, but the pure chemicals are expensive to make. An easily available and inexpensive source of ketones is the juice extracted from raw potatoes.. - ray peat
The arc of every health influencer ends with taking exogenous testosterone and then pretending their new esoteric diet hacks are what finally got them lean.
Fibrosis of the heart and liver, which are often considered to be unavoidably progressive, can be regressed by thyroid hormone, and various fibroses, including breast, liver, and mesentery, have been regressed by progesterone treatment. - ray peat
Environmental enrichment, learning, high altitude, and thyroid hormone promote the formation of new mitochondria, and stimulate stem cell proliferation. - ray peat
Restriction of calories prevents the lipids in the brain, heart, and liver from becoming more unsaturated with aging. (Lee, et al., 1999; Laganiere, et al., 1993; Tacconi, et al., 1991; R. Patzelt-Wenczler, 1981.) - ray peat
The carcinogenic properties of pufa fats have been known for more than 50 years, as has the principle of extending the life span by restricted feeding. Several studies have demonstrated that the long lived species contain fewer pufa fats than the short lived species. - ray peat