#67: Weaponized Art and Language | Iron Overload | Ant Physiology | PTH | Lactic Acid with Ray Peat

00:00 - Art, knowledge, CIA, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Chomsky, language, consciousness, genetic-determinism 17:43 - Ray's new newsletter: estrogen, iron, degenerative aging, and progesterone 19:12 - What are common misconceptions that Ray touches upon in the newsletter? 20:09 - Iron overload, anemia, hemoglobin, hematocrit 22:05 - Estrogen promotes the retention of iron 23:00 - How do androgens increase hematocrit and hemoglobin? 23:48 - What is the purpose of fever? 24:38 - How does iron overload relate to calcium metabolism? 28:25 - Gilbert Ling's associate induction hypothesis, lactic acid, intracellular pH, iron 28:33 - CO2 is protective from excess iron 34:28 - What's the primary conductor of the metabolism? CO2, consciousness 35:27 - Is parathyroid hormone the strongest stimulator of lactic acid? Is parathyroid hormone the final common path of metabolic stress? 37:33 - Is there a way to make cells more resistant to PTH? 40:32 - How to obtain Ray's newsletter and books, Progest-E progesterone from Kenogen  41:04 - How does progesterone relate to parathyroid hormone?  42:05 - Anti-serotonin drugs for osteoporosis? 43:11 - Progesterone opposes prostaglandin E, COX-2, aromatase 45:07 - What's the main mechanism activating aromatase? 46:49 - Cell stability and structural integrity, progesterone, estrogen, vitamin C 51:44 - How does lipofuscin impair cellular respiration?  53:42 - How can people think about what's happening right now? Ruling class vs. working class 55:32 - 'The double vaccinated becoming unvaccinated' 57:39 - Marx and Illich predicting medical tyranny 59:48 - Measuring the blood for angiotensin 01:00:38 - China's vaccination campaign 01:02:44 - Measuring the rate of metabolism by collecting the urine 01:03:56 - '50 micrograms of T3 will usually normalize a hypothyroid person' 01:05:26 - Ray's thoughts on Mexico, election fraud 01:08:24 - Ray's thoughts on Afghanistan 01:10:19 - Are any animals evil? Ants, hunting 01:12:21 - Ray's favorite examples of mutual aid in the animal kingdom 01:16:15 - How do ants communicate? 01:18:24 - What's so special about ants? CO2, aging 01:19:35 - Ray's advice for romantic grief (heartbreak) 01:20:48 - Ray's view on ontology? William James's radical empiricism 01:25:12 - Non-toxic ways of oil painting 01:25:53 - What does a typical day look like for Ray? 01:27:37 - Ray's parting thoughts, are the powers that be winning?