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 […]
Search Results for: estrogen
SOS for PMS
Also see: Quotes: Thyroid, Estrogen, Menstrual Symptoms, PMS, and Infertility Ray Peat, PhD on the Menstrual Cycle Estrogen Related to Loss of Fat Free Mass with Aging Fat Tissue and Aging – Increased Estrogen Estrogen Levels Increase with Age Ray Peat, PhD on the Benefits of the Raw Carrot Consult a medical professional regarding all […]
– September 20, 2011
Calcium Paradox
Also see: Hypertension and Calcium Deficiency Phosphate, activation, and aging. Blood Pressure Management with Calcium & Dairy Carbohydrates and Bone Health 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 […]
– September 19, 2011
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 […]
– September 17, 2011
Death by Medicine
By Gary Null, PhD; Carolyn Dean MD, ND; Martin Feldman, MD; Debora Rasio, MD; and Dorothy Smith, PhD Something is wrong when regulatory agencies pretend that vitamins are dangerous, yet ignore published statistics showing that government-sanctioned medicine is the real hazard. Until now, Life Extension could cite only isolated statistics to make its case about […]
– September 14, 2011
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 […]
– August 15, 2011
Energy, structure, and carbon dioxide: A realistic view of the organism
by Ray Peat, PhD “But the philosophy of Causes & Consequences misled Lavater as it has all his Contemporaries. Each thing is its own cause & its own effect.” W. Blake, c. 1788 What could be more important to understand than biological energy? Thought, growth, movement, every philosophical and practical issue involves the nature of […]
– April 23, 2011
Mitochondria and mortality
by Ray Peat, PhD Diet, exercise, and medicine, damaging or repairing respiratory metabolism MAIN IDEAS AND CONTEXTS Lactic acid and carbon dioxide have opposing effects. Intense exercise damages cells in ways that cumulatively impair metabolism. There is clear evidence that glycolysis, producing lactic acid from glucose, has toxic effects, suppressing respiration and killing cells. Within […]
– April 23, 2011
Stress and Water
by Ray Peat, PhD The biological idea of stress refers to the difficulty of adapting, and this involves energy, structure, and insight/orientation. Given enough energy, we can often adjust our structure to achieve full adaptation, and with insight, we can minimize the amount of energy and structural change needed, for example just by a change […]
– April 23, 2011
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 […]
– February 12, 2011
AIDS patients – High PUFA and High Cortisol in Blood
Increased levels of cortisol, estrogen, and polyunsaturated fatty acids, and decreased levels of the active thyroid hormone (T3) and (placental) progesterone have been found to occur in AIDS. -Ray Peat, PhD Tumour Biol. 1988;9(5):225-32. Modulation of cell-mediated immune response by steroids and free fatty acids in AIDS patients: a critical survey. Nunez EA. The overall […]
– February 7, 2011
The Gastrointestinal Tract and Liver in Hypothyroidism
The Gastrointestinal Tract and Liver in Hypothyroidism Sanjeev M. Wasan Joseph H. Sellin Rena Vassilopoulou-Sellin The sluggish and slow response characteristic of the patient with hypothyroidism in general marks the major gastrointestinal (GI) manifestations of hypothyroidism: sluggish intestinal motility ranging from mild obstipation to paralytic ileus and intestinal pseudo-obstruction. Hypothyroidism most often afflicts elderly persons, […]
– December 22, 2010
Unsaturated Fats and Lung Function
Also see: Fish Oil Toxicity Arachidonic Acid’s Role in Stress and Shock Estrogen’s Role in Asthma Phospholipases, PUFA, and Inflammation Protective “Essential Fatty Acid Deficiency” “Unsaturated fats are slightly more water-soluble than fully saturated fats, and so they do have a greater tendency to concentrate at interfaces between water and fats or proteins, but there […]
– December 16, 2010
Tryptophan, Sleep, and Depression
Also See: Carbohydrate Lowers Free Tryptophan Gelatin > Whey Serotonin, Fatigue, Training, and Performance Gelatin, Glycine, and Metabolism Whey, Tryptophan, & Serotonin Melatonin Lowers Body Temperature Serotonin and Melatonin Lower Progesterone Tryptophan, an amino acid, is commonly used as a supplement for those with depression or sleep issues. When taking into context the vast web […]
– December 11, 2010
Progestin and Cancer
Also see: Hormonal profiles in women with breast cancer PUFA Increases Estrogen Radiation Increases Breast Cancer Incidence PUFA Inhibit Glucuronidation PUFA Promote Cancer Maternal PUFA Intake Increases Breast Cancer Risk in Female Offspring Estrogen and Bowel Transit Time Progestin and Cancer Study: Acquired Breast Cancer Risk Spans Multiple Generations Ray Peat, PhD on Thyroid, Temperature, […]
– December 10, 2010
A Common Finding – Altered Breathing Patterns
Also see: Adverse Effects of Mouth Breathing Hyperventilation and Breathe-More Myth GOOD BREATHING, BAD BREATHING Carbon Dioxide Basics Protective Altitude Chronic hyperventilation; have you got it, what is it, and how do you fix it? Phospholipases, PUFA, and Inflammation Estrogen’s Role in Asthma Unsaturated Fats and Lung Function Bohr Effect and Cells O2 Levels: Healthy […]
– September 1, 2010
