Thoughts on sugar gaining traction
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a bit ashamed to say this cause im afraid it says something about me. but it’s been bothering me how the sugar diet and by extension some of peat’s stuff has been slowly catching on in the mainstream health and fitness online communities
for a couple reasons… a) knowing of peat and being ‘sugar-pilled’ is one of the few things that made me feel unique in my community, especially considering how absurd it is to think ‘sugar is great for you and can be therapeutic’. It was always this very niche thing i felt i was a part of for a while. soon this will be a ‘trend’ if not already and i will appear to be someone who’s just hopped on the new health trend. Ever since i came across peat, it felt like i had access to secrets… not because they are but because there was so much fascinating burried information that was anti-establishment, anti-mainstream science. b) the more popular this gets, the more it will be misconstrued and misrepresented. especially when it spreads via big names who never even read or studied any of the source materials that inspired all this. without nuance, without context, without credit.this feels childish of me. i wonder what you guys think of this and how you’d come to terms with it if you were me.
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@Tarzan17 The point of Peating is to increase energy and structure, and obviously making it a mass phenomenon is an essential part of that. Especially if the practice is simple and actually works (i.e., is a true statement about the world), it can and should be transmitted.
Obviously this brings with it grifters. But that is just a part of living in the world. Nothing is Completely Pure. I welcome the popularization in spite of them.
The desire to have differentiation and special knowledge is understandable. When the knowledge you've acquired through somewhat higher effort becomes common knowledge it is no longer as interesting. But it would be unmetabolic to just keep one's differentiation as one thing forever and always. Satisfy the desire by discovering and practicing correct ideas with regards to more aspects of life.
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nothing ever happens
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On the contrary this is nothing short of a revolution. There is a fundamental wrongness in the health and nutrition field and the work of Ray Peat and by extension the sugar diet will literally change the world. People are obese and sick at a rate that probably wasnt even thought possible 50 years ago and the only way to reverse the course is to rewrite the established dogma. Sugar heals, fat kills. Its very simple and when people figure out the key to actually fixing their metabolism and losing fat for good without restricting and fads, it will change everything.
Literally there is nothing more powerful then when someone truly regains their health. Imagine that on a grand scale.
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@Zachs Yep, fat kills for sure..........Have you seen the 'Oiling of America, How the vegetable oil industry demonized saturated fat?
Me personally only use Ghee, Butter, Coconut oil and olive oil in tiny amounts, and only when frying
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I found it odd how none of you seemed to find it odd that pufa became a campaign ticket in a heartbeat. This world is moving around you. Welcome to earth.
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@ThinPicking But that's just the thing. Contrary to the belief of the solipsistic hiterlites, correct programs win. Everything else is a temporary aberration or setback: in high-dimensional spaces, local minima are rare.
So if one actually believes that Peat made a correct statement about biology (rather than some kind of gnostic program for the Special Ascension of a few Underemployed people), it barely matters that there are detractors.
Of course one has to fight nonetheless. But the wind is in one's sails.
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@Tarzan17 even the most surface level examination of this feeling would show how insecure it is to be threatened / intimidated by public accessing things to raise their health which would make life better for all
theres no need for nuance
eat sucrose foods only to lose weight
go back to low fat high carb normal protein diet as normal
if binging on fatty mixed meals just do a day or two of sucrose only after then go back to the low fat diet
avoid seed oilswa la
