#11 - AMA #2: the Nothingburger — results from Peter’s week-long fast between two weeks of nutritional ketosis — and answering questions on all things fasting
The Peter Attia Drive
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I Ran Out of Cholesterol I Think It's a Matter of the Receptors or Something Like That That Makes More Sense
There's sort of a preservation going on with the thyroid i'm wondering if the same thing happens with the sex hormones as well that you're not exactly focused on reproducing your focused on survival at that point. The system is more complicated than just we've run out of the precursor like there just doesn't strike me as a way that it's reasonable that a molecule as vital as cholesterol could ever get to the point where like we allow ourselves to become rate limited under especially under a situation of fasting or something like that.
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