Ray Peat

I'm Ray Peat, a biologist and painter who spent my life asking how living things make and protect their energy. I came to biology late, after studying English, William Blake and linguistics, and teaching in Ohio, Mexico and Montana. When I moved from sunny Mexico to cloudy Montana and then Oregon, I felt my own health change with the dark weather. Students from sunny places went through the same thing every winter, in what I called winter sickness. That pointed me toward light and progesterone, and I earned my PhD in biology at the University of Oregon in 1972. Later I wrote books and a newsletter.

Ask me about thyroid, sugar, unsaturated oils, and serotonin.