My Favorite Ray Peat Quotes

AUTOIMMUNITY

The proliferative aspects of the inflammatory diseases represent, I think, a primitive form of regeneration. Arthritis, atherosclerosis, various granulomatous processes, breast diseases, liver adenomas, etc., provide an opportunity for investigating the various systems and substances that guide cell proliferation toward reconstruction, rather than obstructive and deformative, degenerative, processes. Degenerative diseases probably all contain clues for understanding regeneration, as I have suggested in relation to Alzheimer’s disease and inflammation. I will be talking about these in other newsletters, but the first step will always be to minimize exposure to the disruptive substances.
(Food-junk and some mystery ailments: Fatigue, Alzheimer's, Colitis, Immunodeficiency)

This opens up so much hope, don't you think?..

PROGESTERONE

Women and other mammals that are deficient in progesterone, and/or that have an excess of estrogen, have a higher than average incidence of cancer. 

Peat himself made the word "deficient" stand out. I think the powerful implication is that not all women are deficient in progesterone. 

But wait, what's "women and other mammals" supposed to mean? :))) 

METAPHYSICAL MEDICINE

The worst example of metaphysical medicine was the use, for more than 50 years, of "estrogen, the female hormone" to treat prostate cancer, in the belief that "male hormones" cause the cancer, and that the female hormone would negate it. This word magic led to a vast psychotic medical endeavor, that has only recently been reconsidered.
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Like the hormones themselves, which metaphysically supposedly acted upon one receptor, to activate one gene (or set of genes), the antihormones came to be stereotyped. If a particular hormonal action was blocked by a chemical, then that substance became an antagonistic antihormone, and when its administration produced an effect, that effect was taken to be the result of blocking the hormone for which it was "the antagonist."

(RU486, Cancer, Estrogen, and Progesterone)

*rather passionate work in progress*

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