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You say Dr. Peat did not consider vitamin A toxicity. On the contrary, he was sent a book on the topic. This is what he had to say about itThe Polar Bear deaths was only one example. Many more from children eating chicken livers and so on. Dr Peat also stated when he would supplement Vitamin A he would get a migraine. He blames in on the added ingredients. Dr. Peat also stated he got a large Cherry angioma on his abdomen. Dr Peat also Lost most of his teeth. Which he blames on wheat germ. Recently before his Passing, he was blaming his choking and coughing on allergy to bacon additives. So he seems to give alot of Anecdotal stuff, plus a bunch of mice studies. My point is Ray could be wrong sometimes. I loved Dr Peat however. We had several conversations over the years. I will always think about him and pretty much obsessed still with him. Although He really did downplay the whole Vitamin A thing IMO.
Many people including myself have seen so many positive changes when eating low Vitamin A. It is so obvious its not even funny. For blossom to reduce her total cholesterol 100 points is more than remarkable. For people to see eczema go away is nothing short of a miracle.
“So you just don't produce steroid hormones for example without vitamin A and it's used in protein synthesis making hair and skin and so on will fail if you're deficient in vitamin A. Mucus membranes thicken and stop producing mucus with the vitamin A deficiency and someone sent me these books by a recent author claiming that there is vitamin A toxicity rampant and I looked through it and couldn't find any facts at all.” Ray Peat
He has emphasised that the requirement for Vitamin A is diminished in hypothyroidism. So, I don’t understand when people feel mislead by him.
"A low thyroid person can get symptoms of Vitamin A poisoning from just a very small amount like 5000 units.” Ray Peat
I’m concerned that everything is being put down to vitamin A toxicity when there are a myriad of other things going on. I cannot deny people’s improvement and if they attribute that to vitamin A avoidance so be it.
Dr. Peat died free of disease. If he had a vitamin A toxicity it would have shown up in the autopsy.