What Ray Said

"Excessive citric acid, for example might activate dormant cancer cells and has been associated with malignancy" -Ray Peat @raymendeat
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Citric Acid & Cancer

"Brain tissue is very rich in complex forms of fats. The experiment (around 1978) in which pregnant mice were given diets containing either coconut oil or unsaturated oil showed that brain development was superior in the young mice whose mothers ate coconut oil." Ray Peat
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Pregnant Mothers Creating Bigger Brained Children

"When a person uses a drug there is generally an awareness that the benefit has to be weighed against the side effects, but things treated as a nutrient especially an essential nutrient has an implication that it wont produce undesirable side effects. -Ray Peat
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Slippery Slope Supplements

"In white hair the amount of tryptophan is higher than in hair any other color Although serotonin and tryptophan are very important during rapid growth their presence in senile tissues is probably closely associated with the processes decline." Ray Peat
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Tryptophan & Gray Hair

"Opiates are still commonly used for pain relief in cancer patients, despite the evidence that has accumulated for several decades indicating that they promote inflammation and cancer growth, while suppressing immunity and causing tissue catabolism, exacerbating the wasting that commonly occurs with cancer. Their use, rather than alternatives such as procaine, aspirin, and progesterone, is nothing but a medical fetish. -Ray Peat
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Opiates Promote Cancer Growth

My email to Dr. Ray Peat: "Do you think eggs are a good or bad food for someone with cancer to eat?" "It depends on the quantity: cancer grows well when fat or protein is available as an energy source
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Cancer & Protein

"Darkness suppresses mitochondrial function, and light activates it." -Ray Peat
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Darkness & Light

"STRESS EARLY IN LIFE, SUCH AS ISOLATION, REDUCES THE PLAYFULNESS OF EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS. PLAYFULNESS IS CONTAGIOUS, BUT SO IS THE INABILITY TO PLAY." -RAY PEAT
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Stress, Isolation & Playfulness

"To better understand the nature of the diseases that are now becoming VILLE so common, we can look "at them in a series, from the bowel, to the liver, to the immune system, and to the brain and hormones. -Ray Peat.
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From Gut health to Hormones

"If we learn to see problems in terms of a general disorder of energy metabolism, we can begin to solve them." -Raymond Peat PhD
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Disorder of Energy Metabolism

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