Peating is absolutely UNBELIEVABLE
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My Peating journey goes back to 2023 when I first got into fitness. Back then, I knew that "exercise" was good, and resistance training helped build muscle, and you needed to eat "a lot" to build muscle and train your body in general. Before this point, I already knew exercise was important, but I thought since I seemed to have good genetics, I could put it off. Well, it was when I visited one of my cousins and he showed off some impressive exercises I realized the clock was ticking, and ticking FAST it was. So I got started swimming laps in pools and pulling resistance bands because I was too lazy to go to a gym, because only "gym rats" did that, I foolishly thought. I continued this for a few months a made slow gains. I was doing some research into supplements and got the impression that creatine was good, most other supplements were bunk. Suspicious of anything else, I tried creatine and made "good" gains too. Note that this is foreshadowing for later.
Fast forward to summer 2024. I'm doing some funky electrical engineering classes (linear circuits 2 to be exact). Over the course of a few days I start getting tired, and I mean really tired. So tired that I would need a nap every single afternoon. Around this time, maybe a few weeks prior, I was getting "serious" about nutrition and made the decision to incorporate a multitude of protein bars into my diet. All I looked at was the sugar and how low I could get it. Fat didn't matter. Little did I know at this point about the importance of sugar. Anyway, I failed to make the connection between these protein bars and my hypoglycemia.
This tiredness persisted until the winter when it largely went away. This shocks me now, as Peat said that hypothyroid people have worse times in the winter, not better. Winter goes by, I make few changes, and I start getting tired again in 2025. The tiredness is now getting so annoying that I almost quit doing judo altogether because I thought it was the judo causing the tiredness, not the chronic lack of carbs. I keep focusing on maximizing fat and minimizing carbs. Meanwhile, my classes are total time sucks and I try futures trading at the same time. Cortisol city. I'm still trying to wrangle with the slight hair loss I got as a result of all this stress pumping up cortisol for an extended period.
Enter November. I was scouring Xitter for interesting market related stuff when I keep reading about how sugar is good for you. How could it be? Turns out the people promoting sugar are also talking about this guy called Ray Peat. Who is this guy and why does he matter? I looked him up and realized everything I knew was WRONG. Fats/PUFAs are largely bad, sugar is good, you need to optimize your hormones, vitamins show incredible effects at high enough doses. I was doing the exact OPPOSITE of what I should have since 2024. I'm now spending hours every day reading everything from Peat and all of Haidut's study reviews.
I have become completely based and Peatpilled. I have already absorbed a degree's worth of information yet there is so much more to learn. I now feel done dealing with other people because once you learn the symptoms of slow metabolism, you cannot unlearn it, and it appears most people in fact have slow metabolisms and hypothyroidism. Once you see what hormonal deficiencies/excesses look like YOU CANNOT UNSEE IT. I keep telling all my friends/judo team members about Peating and I have only gotten interest from 2 so far (out of about 20-30). Many have trouble wrapping their mind around "high carb low fat" and when I mention the Randle Cycle their heads explode it seems like. One of them, a doctor doing residency, had no idea that lisuride is a dopamine agonist and partial serotonin antagonist that lowered prolactin, which is a hormone that is functionally useless in men other than to lower libido and reduce overall metabolism. And don't get me started on how glycolosis is supported by the PDH enzyme, and if you increase it, FAO decreases, and that FAO is linked to numerous megabad health issues.
Personally, I cannot BELIEVE how more people aren't jumping onto Peating because it is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I have never felt better. For my whole life my mom suspected I had some metabolic disorder. I would always get hot and tired really easily and put off a nasty body odor stench. It was all hypothyroidism and always has been. Ironically, now that I have perfectly optimized my nutrition and hormones thanks to Peat, I no longer get tired doing strenuous activities (I wake up almost every day like it's Christmas and no longer take naps) and my body odor somehow smells... almost good? It doesn't smell conventionally good as a fragrance would but it doesn't repel you. This has got to be due to the high concentration of DHT metabolite phermones. I've also radically simplified my resistance training workouts yet have put on so much muscle without additional fat every day that I am just about a candidate for r slash nattyorjuice. Seriously!
In short, Peating is absolutely UNBELIEVABLE and has made me the healthiest I have ever been. And to think just 2 months ago I was chowing down on PUFA laden keto protein bars!
My number one regret is not finding it earlier. I really could have used it 10 years ago.
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I didn't read all that but glad 4 u
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@sunsunsun this is low metabolism coded
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@engineer nah forcing myself to read your blogpost when i dont wanna is serotonin coded
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@engineer said in Peating is absolutely UNBELIEVABLE:
My number one regret is not finding it earlier. I really could have used it 10 years ago.
I'm glad I found Peating when I did (seriously hypothyroid and depressed for years) because the drastic shift in my mood from beginning Peating was so intense I'll never forget it and it told me I was on the right path now.
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I’m thankful I found Ray’s work, too. My diet has evolved to be quite different from what it was the majority of my Peaty journey, but I figure that’s to be expected as one optimizes their health and in the case of mood, mine is no longer a slave to hypoglycemia and life circumstances.
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@Milk-Destroyer pussy destroyer
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Higher consciousness is one of the perks of peating
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@sunsunsun Do you want attention or why do you behave like this?
