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  • Place to discuss the work of Ray Peat, Otto Warburg, Albert Szent-Györgyi and the interdependence of energy and structure

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    Milk DestroyerM
    @DKJoeAgain In my head, autism is just a general sort of illness that coincides with other illnesses.

  • Discussion of individual human or animal cases. "There is no foreseeable limit to the qualitative development of the economy." - Ray Peat, Generative Energy

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    Peaters and health skeptics, This is not a traditional experimental log, but an observation of sorts. It has interested me for some time the question of which direction the body points during sleep. This is more in the realm of eastern medicine and/or superstition, but it is nonetheless interesting. Of course, finding a comfortable sleeping position depends on the space and flow. Feng shui often comes up when researching this. Reddit has several threads on the topic and other social media, now, too. Similar ideas: try not to sleep facing a door or entrance; nothing over your head (shelves); where you are most comfortable. There is a spatial component to this comfort, but I've often wondered how that ties to direction. I think direction is downstream of the physical structure, and comfort downstream from this. So, direction may be "random" to the extent that our buildings favor certain length-wise orientations and flows. Below is a log of sleep orientations. The direction is where my head was pointing. Current Residence: South-East Trip A: South-West Trip B: South Trip C : South / SE Previous Residence: East Previous 1: East and South Previous 2: East Previous 3: NE Previous 4: West Previous 5: East Previous 6: N / NE Previous 7: North Previous 8: North Previous 9: West This is as far as I can remember, with incidental trips and shorter periods excluded except for a recent trip with three locations. The recent trip I included because I believed that I was sleeping with my head pointed South at various places - and, I was correct within a small margin of error. Otherwise, I've gone back to my childhood home at #9 which I believe was West and probably East. I find it interesting that I've often switched my bed direction based on the dynamic of the room or sense that I wasn't sleeping well. There was a period at my last long-term residence when I tried to rotate my bed in the four cardinal directions to gauge which is best. Of course, this is effected by the room more than Sun/dark, air flow, and/or theoretical "magnetic" meridians that flow north-south etc. For that space East was best. Anyways, this is speculative stuff, which I can't really make heads or tails of in an objective way. My own speculation is the South may be good to counter our natural upright position. The head is pointing "skyward" i.e. "north" when we're upright on the northern hemisphere (generally) so, in sleep, which is opposed to wakefulness, our head pairs with geographic south while our feet point north. At the same time, room orientation and type really is determinative. That said, I remain skeptical that room / space is everything. When I was a kid I would sometimes wake up in the opposite direction - once again I think the simple idea of opposites may factor into this. If I slept in the opposite direction currently, it would be awful, expose myself to the doorway, windows, etc. Here's a bizarre and lengthy study on these ideas: https://www.eneuro.org/content/6/2/ENEURO.0483-18.2019 Another thing: I live in the northern hemisphere, so on the "north" side or "top" side of Earth. Earth rotates counter-clockwise (West to East) once every 24 hours. In sleep orientation, in the northern hemisphere, lying with head northward would be to rotate from right to left. The opposite is lying southward and moving left to right. So I wonder if this also has some effect? Anecdotally, to lay head northward in the northern hemisphere is like being on the top of a clock, but, lying southward is like being a pendulum tugged around by momentum. Further, to lie head pointing eastward is like sitting on a train facing the opposite direction of the train's movement. To lie westward is like driving a car / steering, because you're facing the direction of movement. In some ways this also means that south in the northern hemi. and north in the southern hemi. would be akin to a hammock or "suspension" type of gravity, where we are being pulled. Similar idea for sleeping eastward, where rotation is pulling us from west to east. Whatever the case, optimizing for the best sleep is probably 80-90% a function of environment and space. If comfort is possible in all four cardinal directions, I think this would be a fun experiment for anyone trying to gauge sleep type and quality.

  • Discussion of culture, literature, and politics

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    https://youtu.be/ndvWjNqZplY

  • Conversations about Bioenergetic Forum

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    @ThinPicking , Definitely. But I would like to talk with the administrator.

  • Off-topic or unclear threads sent here. But dig around and you might find some gems.

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    I bought an early version of this machine about 10 years ago. I'm glad I did. It was a more functional version than ita current version. I could leave the unit on the whole night as I slept and breath in carbogen maxed out at 10% CO2. It was safe to use it this way. When my ecf is acidic, it can supplement CO2 to my bo blood to such extent that it will enable better tissue oxygenation and jumpstart the change from glycolytic energy production to mitochondrial energy production when the limiting reagent or substrate is oxygen. Once the body can transition into and maintain mitochondrial energy production, I eventually enable endogenous production of CO2 and don't have to use the machine anymore. But the current version of rhe machine only allows for a maximum of 15 minutes per session. It is crippled, but still helpful. But I can get more supplemental CO2 by taking bicarbonate auch as baking soda and magnesium bicarbonate. And drinking carbonated water. It's unfortunate that Steve, the manufacturer, had to cripple the machine to protect himself from the vagaries of the law. I bought my unit knowing fully well future versions were going to be crippled, as Steve had to sell his early units in a sale, but made clear that future units wouls be crippled in order for him to avoid potential lawsuits. The unit's ability to give me enough supplemental CO2 in orser to restore mitochondrial respiration made my recovery from a nasty fever, the worst I have ever had, which involved aspergillosis, and which would otherwise have landed me into an ER and ICU, was to say the least very helpful. I practically gave the body a way to heal itself and it did. Simply correcting the acid-base balance and restoring the supply of CO2 to enable mitochondrial respiration gave me a path to recovery. I had ample reservea in my body, out of following a Peaty lifestyle, that it was easy to simply provide a limiting substrate, oxygen, towards my recovery. With the help of CO2.