Ray Peat

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Ray Peat (1936-2022) was a biologist, philosopher, and painter, with a primary interest in nutrition, aging, and hormones. For a more detailed introduction to his work, see Nate Lawrence's short introduction video.

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1. Interviews
2. Books
3. Articles
4. Newsletters
5. Miscellaneous

Interviews

• Interviews

Books

• 1976 Mind And Tissue: Russian Research Perspectives on the Human Brain [PDF]
• 1993 Nutrition for Women [PDF]
• 1994 Generative Energy: Restoring the Wholeness of Life [PDF]
• 1997 From PMS to Menopause: Female Hormones in Context [PDF]

Articles

• 1971 Cold-Inactivated Enzymes as Metabolic Controls [PDF]
• 1972 Estrogen Stimulated Pathway Changes and Cold-Inactivated Enzymes [PDF]
• 1975 A Biophysical Approach to Altered Consciousness [PDF]
• 1975 A Holistic Physiology of Memory
• 1975 A Revolution in Physics
• 1976 Can Some "Anomalous" Structural Interactions Be Explained by an "Excitable Ether"?
• 1976 Neutrinos and Long-Range Interactions
• 1984 09 Education as Advertised in Napoleonic Times
• 1984 Response to Recent Pop-Medicine Articles on Progesterone Therapy [PDF]
• 1985 Energy, Entropy and Estrogens in Aging [PDF]
• 1988 05 Unsaturated Oils Have Deleterious Effects [PDF]
• 1989 02/03 Sales Pitch for Linseed Oil [PDF]
• 1990 05 Emprise Should Evaluate Conventional and Alternative Treatments Comparatively [PDF]
• 1990 05 Supplement Safety [PDF]
• 1990 08/09 On Recycling Placentas, Thyroid Suppression and Carpal Tunnel [PDF]
• 1991 02/03 Bowel Toxins Accelerate Aging Process [PDF]
• 1994 11 Progesterone Can Be Taken Orally [PDF]
• 1995 11 Ray Peat Responds to Dr. Davis [PDF]
• 1995 02/03 Oral Progesterone is Not Inactivated by Stomach Acids, Pancreatic Enzymes or Liver Detoxification [PDF]
• 1996 06 Concerns About Progesterone Cream and Yam Extracts [PDF]
• 1996 08/09 Critiquing "Dr. McDaniel Responds" Letter [PDF]
• 1997 Estriol, DES, DDT, etc.
• 2000 06 Progesterone Content Corrected [PDF]
• 2006 Aging, estrogen, and progesterone
• 2006 Aging Eyes, Infant Eyes, and Excitable Tissues
• 2006 Altitude and Mortality
• 2006 Aspirin, brain, and cancer
• 2006 Autonomic systems
• 2006 Bleeding, clotting, cancer
• 2006 Blocking Tissue Destruction
• 2006 Caffeine: A vitamin-like nutrient, or adaptogen. Questions about tea and coffee, cancer and other degenerative diseases, and the hormones
• 2006 Can art instruct science? William Blake as biological visionary
• 2006 Coconut Oil
• 2006 Diabetes, scleroderma, oils and hormones
• 2006 Epilepsy and Progesterone
• 2006 Estrogen and Osteoporosis
• 2006 Immunodeficiency, dioxins, stress, and the hormones
• 2006 Iron's Dangers
• 2006 Leakiness, aging, and cancer
• 2006 Menopause and its causes
• 2006 Oils in Context
• 2006 Osteoporosis, harmful calcification, and nerve/muscle malfunctions
• 2006 Progesterone, Pregnenolone & DHEA — Three Youth-Associated Hormones
• 2006 The problem of Alzheimer's disease as a clue to immortality
• 2006 The transparency of life: Cataracts as a model of age-related disease
• 2006 Thyroid: Therapies, Confusion, and Fraud
• 2006 Tissue-bound estrogen in aging
• 2006 Tryptophan, serotonin, and aging
• 2006 Unsaturated Vegetable Oils: Toxic
• 2006 Vegetables, etc. — Who Defines Food?
• 2006 Vitamin E: Estrogen antagonist, energy promoter, and anti-inflammatory
• 2007 Cholesterol, longevity, intelligence, and health
• 2007 Estrogen, progesterone, and cancer: Conflicts of interest in regulation and product promotion
• 2007 How do you know? Students, patients, and discovery
• 2007 Preventing and treating cancer with progesterone
• 2007 Progesterone Deceptions
• 2007 Progesterone Summaries
• 2007 RU486, Cancer, Estrogen, and Progesterone
• 2007 Salt, energy, metabolic rate, and longevity
• 2007 Stem cells, cell culture, and culture: Issues in regeneration
• 2007 Suitable Fats, Unsuitable Fats: Issues in Nutrition
• 2007 The Great Fish Oil Experiment
• 2007 TSH, temperature, pulse rate, and other indicators in hypothyroidism
• 2007 Unsaturated fatty acids: Nutritionally essential, or toxic?
• 2008 Adaptive substance, creative regeneration: Mainstream science, repression, and creativity
• 2008 Natural Estrogens
• 2009 Academic authoritarians, language, metaphor, animals, and science
• 2009 Calcium and Disease: Hypertension, organ calcification, & shock, vs. respiratory energy
• 2009 Estrogen and brain aging in men and women: Depression, energy, stress
• 2009 Estrogen, memory and heredity: Imprinting and the stress response
• 2009 Fats and degeneration
• 2009 Gelatin, stress, longevity
• 2009 Glycemia, starch, and sugar in context
• 2009 Intelligence and metabolism
• 2009 Intuitive knowledge and its development
• 2009 Lactate vs. CO2 in wounds, sickness, and aging; the other approach to cancer
• 2009 Membranes, plasma membranes, and surfaces
• 2009 Multiple sclerosis, protein, fats, and progesterone
• 2009 Thyroid, insomnia, and the insanities: Commonalities in disease
• 2009 Water: swelling, tension, pain, fatigue, aging
• 2011 Milk in context: allergies, ecology, and some myths
• 2012 Cascara, energy, cancer and the FDA's laxative abuse
• 2012 Genes, Carbon Dioxide and Adaptation
• 2012 Glucose and sucrose for diabetes
• 2012 Osteoporosis, aging, tissue renewal, and product science
• 2012 Pathological Science & General Electric: Threatening the paradigm
• 2012 Protective CO2 and aging
• 2012 Regeneration and degeneration: Types of inflammation change with aging
• 2012 Serotonin, depression, and aggression: The problem of brain energy
• 2012 Sugar issues
• 2013 Fatigue, aging, and recuperation
• 2013 Fats, functions & malfunctions
• 2013 Growth hormone: Hormone of Stress, Aging, & Death?
• 2013 Hot flashes, energy, and aging
• 2013 Multiple sclerosis and other hormone-related brain syndromes
• 2013 Phosphate, activation, and aging
• 2013 Prostate Cancer
• 2013 Rosacea, inflammation, and aging: The inefficiency of stress
• 2013 When energy fails: Edema, heart failure, hypertension, sarcopenia, etc.
• 2014 Cancer: Disorder and Energy
• 2014 Cataracts: water, energy, light, and aging
• 2014 Meat physiology, stress, and degenerative physiology
• 2014 Physiology texts and the real world
• 2015 Heart and hormones
• 2015 Serotonin: Effects in disease, aging and inflammation
• 2015 The Cancer Matrix
• 2016 Mitochondria and mortality
• 2016 The dark side of stress (learned helplessness)
• 2021 Some Effects of Progesterone in Men
• Age Pigment: Cause and Effect of Aging and Stress
• Asthma and Metabisulfite [PDF]
• Bone Density: First Do No Harm
• Breast Cancer
• BSE — mad cow — scrapie, etc.: Stimulated amyloid degeneration and the toxic fats
• Eclampsia in the Real Organism: A Paradigm of General Distress Applicable in Infants, Adults, Etc.
• Education, Energy, and Ideology [PDF]
• Energy and Structure in Biological Water [PDF]
• Energy, structure and carbon dioxide: A realistic view of the organism [PDF]
• Progesterone, not estrogen, is the coronary protection factor of women
• Rosacea, Rhynophyma, Pterygium & Riboflavin — and Varicose Veins [PDF]
• Stress and Water
• Transdermal Progesterone for Premenstrual Syndrome [PDF]

Newsletters

• 1986 02 Inhibition and Vitality [PDF]
• 1988 01 Abnormal Cells in the Uterine Cervix [PDF]
• 1988 06 AIDS/Syphilis Treatments & Ideas [PDF]
• 1988 08/09 Natural Immunity and Viral Infections [PDF]
• 1989 01 A New Approach to Detoxifying [PDF]
• 1989 05 The Edema of Stress [PDF]
• 1989 11 Repairing Immunodeficiencies [PDF]
• 1989 08/09 Szent-Györgyi's Energy [PDF]
• 1990 12 Education Against Knowledge [PDF]
• 1991 01 Solving Some of the Problems of Aging [PDF]
• 1991 04 Estrogen in 1990 [PDF]
• 1991 06 Biological Balance and Addictions [PDF]
• 1991 07 Sharks, Salmon & Osmotic Therapies [PDF]
• 1991 The Generality of Adaptogens [PDF]
• 1992 06 Resistance of the Heart [PDF]
• 1992 11 Origins of Progesterone Therapy [PDF]
• 1992 12 Failures of Immunity [PDF]
• 1992 02/03 Taxol, Yew & Cancer [PDF]
• 1992 08/09 Brain Aging [PDF]
• 1993 11 Thyroid: Misconceptions [PDF]
• 1993 The Bean Syndrome [PDF]
• 1994 04 Insomnia & Hyperactivity [PDF]
• 1994 06 Mortality Again [PDF]
• 1994 07 Chronic Fatigue [PDF]
• 1994 11 Criticism and the Experts [PDF]
• 1995 07 Food-junk and some mystery ailments: Fatigue, Alzheimer's, Colitis, Immunodeficiency
• 1995 09 Regeneration and the Anti-adaptogens [PDF]
• 1995 08/09 Aging Ovaries: Not the Eggs [PDF]
• 1996 04 Diagnosing Porphyria for Labor and Industries Claims [PDF]
• 1996 04 Osteoporosis and the Skin [PDF]
• 1996 06 Sunlight: Using It to Enhance Life [PDF]
• 1997 Optimizing respiration [PDF]
• 1998 Bioelectric Fields, Regeneration, and the Lactic Acid Myth [PDF]
• 1998 Hayflickers, Dolly & dandruff: The "telomeric clock" is not a valid theory of aging. The roles of nutrition, estrogen, and progesterone in stress-related energy problems: A meaningful pattern for all organisms [PDF]
• 1998 Recharging the System [PDF]
• 1998 Tissue Firmness and Elasticity, and Rothen's Resonance: Forgotten Physics and Aging [PDF]
• 1999 03 Estrogen Receptors—what do they explain? [PDF]
• 1999 04 Carbon Monoxide, Stress, and Cancer: 1999 status [PDF]
• 1999 12 Homeostasis and Aging. Thyroid mysteries and minerals: Cramps, excitotoxicity, dementia, and CO2 [PDF]
• 2000 01 Edema, estrogen, and aging: A universal problem, and better therapies [PDF]
• 2000 03 Progesterone and ideas of "balance" in "hormone replacement therapy": The importance of inhibition [PDF]
• 2000 10 Estrogen, Aging, Radiation, Migraine & Energy [PDF]
• 2001 01 FIBROSIS: Estrogen, stiffness, excitotoxicity, aging—a problem more general than "collagen disease" [PDF]
• 2001 02 Estrogen, calcium, heavy metals, and nerve degeneration [PDF]
• 2001 03 Mary Shomon interview [PDF]
• 2001 05 "Cocaine babies," criminal responsibility, and medicine [PDF]
• 2001 10 Thought and energy, mood and metabolism [PDF]
• 2001 11 Postpartum, premenstrual, and seasonal serotonin soaks: Hints about aging, insomnia and diabetes [PDF]
• 2002 09 Lungs, shock, inflammation, and aging [PDF]
• 2002 11 Progesterone, thyroid, cancer [PDF]
• 2003 03 Estrogen's Mechanisms in Aging and Cancer [PDF]
• 2003 Thyroiditis. Some confusions and causes of "autoimmune diseases" [PDF]
• 2004 X-rays, estrogen, and the brain [PDF]
• 2005 01 Carbon monoxide, estrogen, and the medical cancer cult [PDF]
• 2005 03 Contexts for asthma [PDF]
• 2006 03 Inflammation, endotoxin, estrogen, and other problems [PDF]
• 2006 05 Autoimmunity [PDF]
• 2007 The GABA system, defenses, and tissue renewal [PDF]
• 2009 07 Peptides, coherent adaption, and some terminal diseases: The roles of thyroid, progesterone, calcium, salt—issues of energy and inflammation; towards an organismic paradigm for medicine [PDF]
• 2009 09 Resveratrol, rate of living, CO2, and aging [PDF]
• 2011 01 Radiation and Growth: Incoherent imprinting from inappropriate irradiation [PDF]
• 2011 05 Endotoxin, stress, depression: Serotonin, starches, fatty acids, and antidotes [PDF]
• 2012 05 Implications of inflammation [PDF]
• 2015 09 Mushrooms—observations and interpretations [PDF]
• 2016 01 Nitric oxide, aging, and adaption—the Procrustean adaptogen [PDF]
• 2016 03 Progesterone, brain protection, and the "science culture" [PDF]
• 2016 05 Comments on cancer therapy [PDF]
• 2016 07 100 Years of Cancer Metabolism [PDF]
• 2016 09 Dangers of sadistic science: Determinism vs process thinking [PDF]
• 2016 11 Arthritis, Autoimmunity, & Aging [PDF]
• 2017 01 Sugar, stress and the degenerative diseases [PDF]
• 2017 03 Parkinson's disease: Some contexts for tremulous stiffness [PDF]
• 2017 05 Language and Criticism of Science [PDF]
• 2017 07 Problems of Metabolic Energy and Efficiency [PDF]
• 2017 09 Adaptogenic Milk [PDF]
• 2017 11 From "heroic medicine" to "hormesis": First deny that harm is done [PDF]
• 2018 01 Consciousness, nootropics, and progesterone [PDF]
• 2018 03 Sleep and Aging [PDF]
• 2018 05 Autism and Causality [PDF]
• 2018 07 Critical Issues [PDF]
• 2018 09 Cholesterol in Context Part I [PDF]
• 2018 11 Cholesterol in Context Part II: A Formative Medium [PDF]
• 2019 01 Receptors, or Sensitive Substance? [PDF]
• 2019 03 Particles in Context [PDF]
• 2019 05 Postpartum depression, brain, aging, and reductionism [PDF]
• 2019 07 Serotonin: Energy, Degeneration, and Aging [PDF]
• 2019 09 Serotonin, coherence and aging [PDF]
• 2019 11 Money, progesterone & life [PDF]
• 2020 01 Contexts for Vaccinations [PDF]
• 2020 03 Natural Order and Gilbert Ling [PDF]
• 2020 05 This Novel Flu Season [PDF]
• 2020 07 Education, a developmental process, confronts absolutism [PDF]
• 2020 09 Lactate, metabolic regression, & political-medical implications [PDF]
• 2020 11 Body temperature, inflammation and aging [PDF]
• 2021 01 Cumulative damage, degeneration, & aging—possibilities of reversal [PDF]
• 2021 03 Inflammation, adaption, and aging [PDF]
• 2021 05 Intention, Learning, and Health [PDF]
• 2021 07 Estrogen, iron, degenerative aging, and progesterone [PDF]
• 2021 09 Immunology, Ideology, Power [PDF]
• 2021 11 Gender, Aging & Disease Susceptibility [PDF]
• 2022 Q1 Carcinogenic Metabolism [PDF]
• 2022 Q2 Aging, Energy, Progesterone [PDF]
• A Physiological Approach to Ovarian Cancer [PDF]
• Carbon Monoxide: Cancer Hormone?
• Darkness, Water, Osteoporosis [PDF]
• Estrogen, serotonin, mood, and aging (DRAFT)
• Immunity, Hormones and Yeast Infections [PDF]
• Moles, DHEA, Etc. [PDF]
• Oral Absorption of Progesterone [PDF]
• Steroids, Thyroid [PDF]

Miscellaneous

• 1960 06 Master's Thesis: William Blake and the Mysticisms of Sense and Non-Sense [PDF]
• 1972 09 PhD Thesis: Age-Related Oxidative Changes in the Hamster Uterus [PDF]
• 1984 03 United States Patent: Treatment of Progesterone Deficiency and Related Conditions with a Stable Composition of Progesterone and Tocopherols [PDF]
• 1986 12 United States Patent: Pharmaceutical Compositions Containing Dehydroepiandrosterone and Other Anesthetic Steroids in the Treatment of Arthritis and Other Joint Disabilities [PDF]

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