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Generative Energy #67: Weaponized Art and Language | Iron Overload | Ant Physiology | PTH | Lactic Acid with Ray Peat
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Generative Energy #67: Weaponized Art and Language | Iron Overload | Ant Physiology | PTH | Lactic Acid with Ray Peat

"What could be more important to understand than biological energy? Thought, growth, movement, every philosophical and practical issue involves the nature of biological energy." — Ray Peat, PhD

00:00 - Art, knowledge, CIA, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Chomsky, language, consciousness, genetic-determinism

17:43 - Ray's new newsletter: estrogen, iron, degenerative aging, and progesterone

19:12 - What are common misconceptions that Ray touches upon in the newsletter?

20:09 - Iron overload, anemia, hemoglobin, hematocrit

22:05 - Estrogen promotes the retention of iron

23:00 - How do androgens increase hematocrit and hemoglobin?

23:48 - What is the purpose of fever?

24:38 - How does iron overload relate to calcium metabolism?

28:25 - Gilbert Ling's associate induction hypothesis, lactic acid, intracellular pH, iron

28:33 - CO2 is protective from excess iron

34:28 - What's the primary conductor of the metabolism? CO2, consciousness

35:27 - Is parathyroid hormone the strongest stimulator of lactic acid? Is parathyroid hormone the final common path of metabolic stress?

37:33 - Is there a way to make cells more resistant to PTH?

40:32 - How to obtain Ray's newsletter and books, Progest-E progesterone from Kenogen

41:04 - How does progesterone relate to parathyroid hormone?

42:05 - Anti-serotonin drugs for osteoporosis?

43:11 - Progesterone opposes prostaglandin E, COX-2, aromatase

45:07 - What's the main mechanism activating aromatase?

46:49 - Cell stability and structural integrity, progesterone, estrogen, vitamin C

51:44 - How does lipofuscin impair cellular respiration?

53:42 - How can people think about what's happening right now? Ruling class vs. working class

55:32 - 'The double vaccinated becoming unvaccinated'

57:39 - Marx and Illich predicting medical tyranny

59:48 - Measuring the blood for angiotensin

01:00:38 - China's vaccination campaign

01:02:44 - Measuring the rate of metabolism by collecting the urine

01:03:56 - '50 micrograms of T3 will usually normalize a hypothyroid person'

01:05:26 - Ray's thoughts on Mexico, election fraud

01:08:24 - Ray's thoughts on Afghanistan

01:10:19 - Are any animals evil? Ants, hunting

01:12:21 - Ray's favorite examples of mutual aid in the animal kingdom

01:16:15 - How do ants communicate?

01:18:24 - What's so special about ants? CO2, aging

01:19:35 - Ray's advice for romantic grief (heartbreak)

01:20:48 - Ray's view on ontology? William James's radical empiricism

01:25:12 - Non-toxic ways of oil painting

01:25:53 - What does a typical day look like for Ray?

01:27:37 - Ray's parting thoughts, are the powers that be winning?

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"What could be more important to understand than biological energy? Thought, growth, movement, every philosophical and practical issue involves the nature of biological energy." — Ray Peat, PhD