Raymond Franklin Peat (1936-2022) was a biologist, philosopher, and painter, with a primary interest in nutrition, aging, and hormones. He obtained a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Oregon, with specialization in physiology.[1]
He started his work with progesterone and related hormones in 1968. In papers in Physiological Chemistry and Physics (1971 and 1972) and in his dissertation (University of Oregon, 1972), he outlined his ideas regarding progesterone, and the hormones closely related to it, as protectors of the body's structure and energy against the harmful effects of estrogen, radiation, stress, and lack of oxygen. His key idea was that energy and structure are interdependent, at every level.
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