#86 - The Estrogen Industry, the magic of progesterone and the importance of thyroid with Dr Ray Peat & Kate Deering

Weight Loss For Women: empowering health, strength and nourishment

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Cholesterol, Hormonal Balance, and Nutritional Supplements

This chapter explores the relationship between high cholesterol levels and hormonal deficiencies, focusing on progesterone and thyroid function. It highlights how a reduced metabolic rate affects estrogen detoxification and introduces a new product line of organic beef liver and oyster capsules.

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We've had Dr Ray Peat on the podcast twice before and his episode with Emma Sgourakis - The Nutrition Coach is the most downloaded podcast episode of all time!

So Kate and I decided to get him back on to do a deep dive into hormones.

This is a 2-hour episode, so you’ll definitely want to grab a snack and maybe a pen and paper because you’re going to learn heaps. In this episode, we talk about:

➡️ The dangers of estrogen therapy

➡️ How the medical industry got is all wrong--and continues to get it wrong

➡️ Why even small amounts of added estrogen can be disruptive

➡️ The purpose of estrogen in women AND men

➡️ Where estrogen is produced in both men and women--it is produced in far more places than you have been told

➡️ Estrogen's effects on a woman's cycle

➡️ Estrogen's link to miscarriages

➡️ Why the progesterone to estrogen balance is so important

➡️ The effects of progesterone ON estrogen

➡️ Are menopausal women really LOW in estrogen?

➡️ Understanding the difference types of estrogen

➡️ Prostate cancer and estrogen

➡️ The estrogen - insulin connection

➡️ Estrogen's effect on sugar and fat metabolism

➡️ Insulin, estrogen and diabetes connection

➡️ How the fish oil industry got established

➡️ The PUFA - estrogen and vitamin E connection

➡️ What is really going on with "low" estrogen diagnosis

➡️ The thyroid - cholesterol connection

➡️ The gut cholesterol connection

➡️ Why super low cholesterol is not beneficial for health

➡️ The thyroid andrenaline connection

➡️ Why Magnesium is important in thyroid therapy

➡️ Using progesterone therapy for both women and men

➡️ The progesterone-cortisol connection

➡️ Understanding progesterone therapy

And so MUCH more..

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SHOW NOTES

00:00 - Introduction to Podcast Episode

01:26 - Podcast Topic Summary

02:55 - What are steroidal hormones and how do they work in the body?

04:44 - The dangers of estrogen therapy

12:36 - Why even small amounts of added estrogen can be disruptive

17:21 - What is the purpose of estrogen in the female and male body?

18:24 - When is estrogen at its highest in a woman's cycle and what is it doing?