Fixing my problems
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Been feeling a bit strange. Drinking too much alcohol lately. There is definitely some benefit in the social aspect and spontaneous nature of going out with friends but it definitely takes a toll as well.
A healthy balance should be found or find a way of socialising that doesn’t involve alcohol. In my country that is surprisingly difficult.
I have grown to love aspirin again. I think after getting the basics of diet down which involves plenty of calcium, carbs and gelatin (when available) the aspirin is finally having a profound effect. After getting many hot flash like symptoms the aspirin knocks it out and seemingly gives me chills, these chills are then followed about 30 minutes later by a radiating warmth all over my body.
I think the chills is my body heating up and hot flashes cooling down. Ray has mentioned this before and I find it to be true. When I get these ‘chills’ for like 20 minutes I notice my skin (body) becoming increasingly warm and once it has reached the peak my chills disappear and energy flows very very nicely. Love it.
Also been eating oysters, liver and learning to cook oxtails. I’ll hopefully get better at cooking with these foods.
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It is best to drink clean alcohol like vodka and mix it with orange juice as fructose helps limit hypoglycemia. Only drink in moderation though
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If I drink it's going to be bourbon. A glass of whisky has more antioxidants than red wine. So drinking in moderation is probably not harmful. I don't really know what an "appropriate" amount would be. Too much can cause intestinal permeability and endotoxin side effects. Likely one of the mechanism behind it's liver toxic effects. But when you say "social drinking" I'm thinking in my head you mean like Friday/Saturday night drinking with friends. Probably not doing too much damage as long as you're having only 1 or 2 drinks. If you're getting shitfaced that might be another story, lol. I would think daily drinking, even in small amounts, might eventually cause intestinal issues as well.
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@Mulloch94 Yea more like 5 or 6 beers. Im a young man. And on weekends yes but this is only occasionally. I think beer is probably the worst for your gut so I may switch to something else. But I plan on limiting my alcohol intake again as I had not drank for several months for a good while.
Yea not a fan of the way beer makes me feel for days after.
And to touch on that temperature thing with hot and cold flashes I believe I have some sort of infection like strep throat although it is weirdly getting better with aspirin so Im gonna go and get it checked out. I had been getting hot flashes for a while and never cold flashes where my body would actually heat up.
Maybe it's a sign that my body is normalising and fighting an infection that has been present for a while? I have had a white coat on my tongue for many months now and it seems to be clearing up somehow. Maybe down to the vitamin D? who knows -
@Jakeandpace You could always try some activated charcoal after a night of drinking. Will probably blunt most (not all likely) of the negative effects.
I couldn't really say about the temperature flashes. That's ambiguous and could mean literally a hundred different things. Maybe you're sick, maybe it's hormonal, perhaps a side effect of something you took, etc.
Vitamin D is good for the your immunity, are you running fever? An aspirin before bed can lower stress hormones like cortisol and estrogen which adversely effect body temperature. Those would be the areas I investigate first.
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Started lifting again. Olympic for the first time. This is the most muscle I have ever put on in such a short period of time in my life. Not just noobie gains as I've had that before, it's like that 10x. I've never had a good source of vitamin A in my life but It seems pretty essential for steroid metabolism by my estimation as I seem to be like an anabolic powerhouse. Also Acne is more permanently clearing which is great.
I actually found a great oyster source but can't eat them raw and I'm so terrible at shucking and cooking them I just can't be bothered too much. Been taking some zinc to make up for it as I assume liver covers everything else.
Experimented with nicotine. Great aromatase inhibitor but seems to trigger the stress response to much for my liking and I don't like the cholinergic effects too much on my brain, it brings very narrow thinking and just makes me feel dumber. I've grown accustom to non-linear thinking and the creativity it brings along with it.
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Noticing more often than not that the best marker of health is sleep and how you wake up. If you wake up hungry and awake not wanting to go back to bed and feeling ready to attack the day then you are probably in perfect health. Any sleep disturbances then probably not. Sleeping in seems to be a sign of bad health, you end up feeding into fat metabolism and it blunts your appetite.
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Completed a few sessions of sprinting recently barefoot and I must say it opens your posture up quite nicely and gets me breathing like I should with my diaphragm. Also seems to increase leg hair
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@Jakeandpace very interested in your log, i share a lot of your previous health issues. though what spiked my interest, is your claim that your maxilla has moved forward? that is quite a feat imo, what do you believe you owe that effect to? diet wise or lifestyle wise. thank you and good luck.
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“also think that the same arguments these low A people make for grant being close to zero can be made for people like Peat, Georgi and Danny Roddy. That argument would be 'how come people like these haven't had any problems while eating copious amounts of VA for years?' in their estimation Peat should have died long ago and Roddy and Georgi should have a myriad of autoimmune issues.
Yet they don't”Agree with most of your post, but this part specifically is not a strong argument.
Roddy is on thyroid hormones, so he is able to metabolise higher doses of VA.
Peat started increasing fiber close to his death, perhaps to make up for VA overload.
And Giorgi, probably not on thyroid, but you can’t be sure his liver is not accumulating VA.VA definitely accumulates in hypothyroid people.
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In regards to the maxilla
I notice a few things tend to move it forward but I think it has something to do with VA and or Steroidogenesis from increasing the dosage from VA. I seem to recall peat saying this in regard to him taking DHEA and it growing his wisdom teeth.
I had a similar experience but instead it was with liver, I had a moderate dose of liver and within the next day I could feel my cheeks become fuller, vision getting better and maxilla moving forward. I also read a thread of someone on Ray peat forum who claimed Perfect vision to be downstream of a forward grown maxilla and although he got mocked I believe it to be true.
Also exercises that tend to be good for posture are probably more important, things like sprinting etc. I have noticed everything improves after sprinting and my jaw rotates to a more neutral position after a session. Functional patternshave probably hit the nail on the head in this regard, just look at their results.
Of course there is mewing but I have tried it for years with minimal results. Jaw is downstream of posture and a functional body.
So yea I think it has something to do with hormone's and perhaps VA as a growth factor as well as applying the correct pressure to the body in order for it to grow correctly.
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I'm not saying VA doesn't accumulate in the hypothyroid. I am saying that people who subscribe to the diet of low vitamin A don't make that distinction, for them it is merely that VA accumulates in everyone without much nuance and that it is only a toxin with no vitamin like properties. To them someone like Danny Roddy should have ungodly amounts of VA to the point of death as they don't take thyroid into account.
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@Jakeandpace carrot salad, mushrooms, bamboo are all fibers that help bind toxic bile. fruits also have some fiber.. you could also include well cooked greens. I dont think a peaty approach lacks fiber.. I‘ve also done the low VA diet for idk maybe 2 weeks.. It was bad. My skin immediately got so dry it was awful, never again.
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been eating mostly vegetarian these past few days feeling actually good. Egg protein always gives me a bad reaction and feels heavily inflammatory. Been cooking meals without meat and getting my protein from milk alone and some from plant foods. Averaging around 70g of protein a day.
I feel great, my hair has lost its brittleness and doesn't sway between being dry and oily. I have been sleeping well. Leg and arm pain I have been getting is no longer present. Only enough My finger nails were starting to look slightly clubbed and I was getting really worried about my vascular health. Now my nails seem to be returning to normal.
My hands and feet are almost always regularly warm.
I saw a thread on RPF on veganism from a peat perspective and I think it brings up a lot of great points on why it could be a good idea. I find it such a pain to balance the proteins in muscle meat all the time and I just feel a constant low grade inflammation from them, maybe I will only eat gelatinous meats now with occasional muscle meat.
Eating a lot of leafy greens, carrots, some lentils, milk, egg yolks, bread and wheat, potatoes, coconut oil and plenty of fruits.
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Especially looking at guys like Clarence Kennedy who managed to hit all of his heaviest lifts while vegan I think I know why it works. If you don't eat a boatload of nuts and do all that weird raw vegan bs then you're just loading up on a boatload of carbs. I saw Clarence say he averages 800g of carbs a day mostly from white rice. The only thing holding him back I'd say is his soy milk and cooking oil (Avocado so not the worst choice considering).
It seems clear to me at least that peats principles are plant based with occasional animal foods to supplement if you even need them.
I have also been thinking about tradition and religion and I am connecting some dots that they seem to outline a trend towards an optimal diet for longevity of not just people but of nations. We may forget scientific reasons as they are always changing but tradition remains as a backbone often times in society and can be the glue by which we as a species maintain good diets lifestyle and community without stagnating to far into destruction. For example catholics usually have a fish Friday according to the bible (weekly selenium, copper, zinc and other trace minerals?) and don't eat meat on a Sunday I think? I could have that wrong but it is all very interesting and coincidental.
Is this the real reason for religion and traditions? who knows but that's just my thoughts and sorry if they're a bit disjointed.
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Ok so I don’t think vegetarianism and or veganism works long term.
My diet today is just sort of looking to be more of balanced diet but like with some slight alterations. This goes back to what I said about traditions in the previous post and actually circles back to a post I made in the philosophy tag about the pyramid of learning and mastering.
When we first learn about nutrition when we are very young we are taught that a balanced diet is best and from there it is a long journey of acquiring different pieces of knowledge and tools until we finally arrive back to where we started however this time we are more informed. It’s poetic really. look at guys like Matt Blackburn who basically just eats a normal diet at this point with added supplements.
You’ve got to really be thinking about your nutrition but also take a step back and thinking about those around you, what allows them to thrive? They’re doing everything wrong! Or are they, they’re eating balanced meals that vary from day to day and aren’t being super autisic about everything. Take a break everyone once in a while and eat what everyone else is, you may glean some insight.
I think a vegan/vegetarian day (no eggs but milk could be acceptable) once or twice a week could be beneficial. I experienced definite benefits that were very pronounced but I couldn’t do it long term, not at least for now while my knowledge of food is fairly limited.
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It’s crazy.
After one slice of commercial bread I already feel the effects of the soy flour and protein they put in it. It’s insane to me that I could only find one bread product that wasn’t contaminated with soy or seeds and even then that product was fortified with iron.
I know a place that I think does safe bread but it never ceases to amaze me just how horribly bad the food supply is.
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In terms of exercise I am now focussing on more playful forms. That being sports. Most sports involve some form of explosive activity rather than endurance.
I’m playing soccer/football and do Muay Thai, although they are quite exhaustive sometimes my appetite has skyrocketed and I feel a lot better not carrying around so much extra musculature in the upper body.
Sports are also good because they integrate you in your local environment. Instead of the deranged sort of Sigma gym goer loner archetype that gets so heavily promoted, performing in a local arena builds bonds and creates a greater sense of purpose.
Brute de force speaks on this, we must have an outlet to perform that earns you accolades. I would consider sport an important and easy outlet that most people have access to. You can exert yourself physically and stylistically as a form of expression.
