@NoeticJuice said in Did you replace Dr. Ray Peat after he died or are you living gurulessly? (pls include serviceable rayplacements):
I'd rather not follow any guru. Instead, I prefer to use my own judgement, and work on improving the quality of my judgement. After all, how could anyone other than myself know my full context?
Listening to others can still be very useful, as it gives you more information to work with.
Good attitude, but not for everyone here as not everyone can think for themselves, and not everyone is willing and able to learn Ray Peat's essense, as evidenced by the many posters here and there on the other side- who evidently haven't internalized Ray's ideas and give advices that are neither Peaty nor bioenergetic.
If they did, we would be having members reporting daily or weekly or even just monthly on their progress , if just in losing weight alone. Most lack enough knowledge that is available to them if they read Peat more and begin to connect the dots and apply to themselves what they really learned.
And even more would rather embrace the instant gratification of taking drugs that give instant results (the heck with side effects) than have the patience to take necessary steps to transform themselves slowly over time. It is ingrained in the culture, it is kinda hopeless expecting people to realize this because they have been programmed and conditioned this way.
What makes it hard also is there is no support group here that can find common ground that Rome wasn't built in a day, so those who choose the long and hard but effective way will need to take the lonely process of building one's metabolic health.
And no, Ray Peat is irreplaceable. There are plenty of talking heads, but they are more flawed than Ray Peat, as they have more knowledge gaps in them than he does. And a lot of them are a cross between Peat and Asprey, and that's not saying much good considering than Ray himself have an openness to using antibiotics and to pharma drugs such as acetazolamide that the apex Peatepr would not need. But Ray has that license I guess, as he can get weary on how bad programming and conditioning dies hard, and for most people that like short easily digestible answers a doctor's typical approach is the only sane way to get rid of them like "take this drug and tomorrow you'll be free as a bird."