How did you find out about Ray Peat
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Tell me. Tell me now.
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I put something like this in to google search.
"serotonin" "feeling weird"
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I saw a youtube comment on a Golden One what I eat in a day video mentioning how Ray Peat was real nutrition
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A landshark post on twitter
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Internet search on link between adrenal stress and hormones. RP "worked" on them during and after his master.
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After adding meat back into my diet and searching to heal my hormones! I came across Emma Sgourakis and she mentioned Peats work extensively. I remember being like Ray Peat is the Godfather of all of this!! Mind blown moment
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Read his book Nutrition for Women->
Then his articles on Ray Peat dot com->
THEN I found the old RPFSo glad in that order
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Reading coconutoil. com articles somehow led me to Ray's website. His articles were a real eye opener. Further searches finally led me to the old forum.
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I read a hairloss thread on RPF and then signed up for an account. RPF would email me a list of the best threads everyweek and It was all these haidut threads with crazy headlines: aspirin cures cancer, taurine cures balding etc... peaked my interest. then i found danny roddys hair loss videos and generative energy podcast with ray and then got into rays work. I suspect alot of younger guys who are skeptical of finasteride salesmen will eventually come around to finding peat.
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I was searching for ways to increase bone mass on some looksmaxing forum, there was a link to a discussion about K2, and the term “peating”. At first, I thought it was some secret spiritual practice, that makes you grow your jaw through hypnosis.
And from there, I went to the rabbit hole.
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I was a member of a German acne forum starting when I was about 18, so around 2005. A pretty knowledgable guy from Switzerland (if you're still out there paba, hat tip to you, brother) opened a thread about acne and nutrition which was initially about low carb. It was almost revolutionary to swim against the stream back then and link acne to nutrition.
Over the years, more and more knowledgable users (of which I was certainly not one) found this thread via google algorithm, some of them didn't even have acne. The thread opener from Switzerland was always open and didn't hold on to some dogma. He found Ray Peat probably sometime around 2008 or 2009 and the thread evolved. At first it was about low PUFA and more gelatin in a low carb context, then many of the people there read more of Peat's work and diverted from low carb.
For some time the discussions were at a pretty high level. Then social media became more and more popular, the kids jumped on the bandwagon and the forum and the thread died over time. It was the heyday of internet forums. I then was more on the Paleo bandwaggon while incorporating some of Peat's ideas, although I never really read Peat's work up until that point. I found the Ray Peat Forum around 2015 and was an occasional lurker until 2019 or so, when I became more active, to the dismay of all posters who wanted meaningful discussions instead of babbling.
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@Luke That has sadly been my experience aswell. The quality of discussions has degraded over the years. This forum is a bit unusual in that regard.
Was reading a bodybuilding forum in 2010 and someone posted about ray peat. Started reading his articles then came peatarian forum and then later rpf forum. What I dislike about the peatarian space is all the grifters and authoritarians who just burp up what peat said. No own thinking at all, just blindly repeats what he said.
It's a cosmic censorship in a way.
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Around 2005, while struggling with unexplained weight loss that all dietary interventions up until that point had failed to resolve, I found the work of natural hygienist practitioners that would ultimately lead to my spine collapsing in 2009 and in 2010, I got a new doctor who offered to see me weekly to discuss science—she studied epigenetics at Cornell and authored books on ancestral nutrition—and while combing through studies on stem cells and bone regeneration in mice, I came across Matt Stone’s 180 Degree Health blog. It was 2011, during his RBTI/Challen Waychoff phase, and I left a comment under one of his posts, he offered to talk with me about RBTI so I called him for information and joined his RBTI Facebook group where I met someone who gave me the name of an RBTI practitioner and biochemist who later took me on as a client and told me about Dr. John Lee’s work on natural progesterone, which I discovered after some researching was inspired by a talk Ray gave that Dr. Lee had attended, I found Ray’s website, joined Bruno’s forum Peatarian and then the old RPF in 2014, and the rest is history. I’m thankful for the help I received along the way, but I cringe when I think back on how I got here, however, I discovered a book while following RBTI that would become the most important book on health that I ever read so no regrets.
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@Jennifer What was the book and yes life is a journey isn't it! Every new day is a new beginning.
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Twitter, reading about ssris, coconut oil, etc. Also seeing positive aspirin advocacy was fascinating. I had used it but had always heard it was dangerous. Then pufa was the big eye opener.
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It sure is, @heyman. The book is Dying to Be Me by Anita Moorjani. It’s about her near death experience from end-stage cancer. It confirmed what I intuitively knew all along, but struggled to have faith in for several reasons—that there are far greater influences on health than diet. Her main message is to love ourselves like our life depends on it because it does, and I couldn’t agree with her more. It was radical self-love that saved my life. It seems so simple and yet it’s the most challenging thing I have ever dedicated myself to practicing.
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@heyman peater friend told me about slime mold time mold, read their book/blog and started following people on twitter in that sphere, saw people temp posting and decided to try some coconut oil and had an immedate reaction similar to what peat wrote about when putting it on rice, was pretty much sold on his ideas after that
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I wanted to resolve my mostly mental problems (depression, OCD, low energy, mania) without going through the fradulent loop-de-loop of therapy and psychiatric drugs.
Did "carnivore", read Chris Palmer's great book Brain Energy which I still recommend, then twitter took me from Vonderplanitz to Ray Peat.
Kind of kaleidoscopic. I'm glad to be where I am now.
