Could be the dietary acid load of meat causing you to feel disgusted by the thought of eating it especially after consuming kilos per day, this has happened to me in the past. Grains in excess can have a high dietary acid load as well, so if you are combining the two in high amounts without sufficiently offsetting it then its only a matter of time before you get disgusted by the thought of eating more of it.

Try some shrimp or chicken wings cooked in coconut oil to give you a break from red meat, see if you feel better on those. If you are having rice try replacing it with red skin potatoes as well. More importantly, instead of having kilos of meat per day, drop down to 113g/4oz max per meal for a while.

@Norwegian-Mugabe said in Intermittent fasting has no benefits, ups risk of dying from heart disease:

An interesting post. Fasting has taken our society by storm. It feels like everyone is fasting these days. I have to say that intermittent fasting helps in one way, it is indeed easier to consume fewer calories that way. This is though not something most people should be doing. Fasting also shows how insanely disciplined a large section of the public is regarding their health. I know obese people who are willing to starve themselves for days, which is crazy if you think about it. Imagine the headway such disciplined people would get if they embraced Peat's ideas instead of going into starvation mode.

What a blessing that what works is the opposite of the "no pain, no gain" mentality. I am indulging in the best sugary and dairy food conceivable and my health just keeps sweetening. It should be a huge white pill that Peatism is working so well for us because it should be an easy sell to the public once the fasting and keto diets have been exhausted by the public. By 2050 everyone who cares about their health will be Peating, and things will get dramatically better. Future generations will be thriving and have much bigger bodies and heads than us, and have better energy levels with slimmer waists and fewer health problems. Peatism will turn the tide and we have already started the ascend. Just think back to a few years ago and tell yourself how much better you feel and are today. Just imagine the consequences when Peating becomes the norm for society at large.

Good post, almost any community I am in whether IRL or online there is the pervasive belief that fasting is the best ticket to health and every person ought to be a practitioner of fasting for the purported health benefits.

I genuinely feel bad for any younger fella out there. The self-improvement industrial complex will tell them they need to fast, they need to do MORE, no time to rest, no time to eat, ignore your own needs, blah blah blah. All of these recommendations are rooted in a deranged scarcity mindset where the self-help industrial complex thinks that by telling a young fella "in the future you will have to fight to the death for a scrap of foodmeal so you better start running 3x a day instead of 2x!" it will spring them into action and it will magically "unfuck their life" or whatever other terminology the stress-hormone peddlers say.

Quite the opposite. People wonder why so many young fellas are completely bald before even the age of 25, well its no wonder. I call them "generation stress-hormone".

On the topic of fasting as a diet modality, the amount of people who I know IRL that are self proclaimed IF practitioners that I have seen eating during their fasting window is staggering, so not only is their diet modality inherently stress promoting, its causing failures in adherence which is probably psychologically harmful (assuming many of these fellas have succumbed to the self-help industrial complex where they would blame themselves for 'not being disciplined enough').

@Peatly “Gelatin in Nutrition and Medicine” by N.R. Gotthoffer I believe is the gelatin book from the 40s. It is short but worth reading if you can get your hands on a copy, there is a ton of useful information about diabetes, digestion, etc and how gelatin benefits these.

@Buckian this has been my experience. doing it early in the day feels great but if i run a red light machine for too long at night time i absolutely notice a stress response and hypoglycemia symptoms. oddly enough i noticed this happen last night after using red light for a long time before bed and haidut already has a study posted today explaining why. very useful.

running the red light machine early in the day near/around my first or second meal feels the best.

they are a good source of vitamin e, not many other sources that aren't pufa-laden (cranberry juice and red/yellow bell peppers are the other sources that come to mind).

if you stick to a high quality organic tomato puree or paste you will be avoiding the seeds, you can of course make and strain your own using whichever choice of tomato you prefer but it's easy enough to find high quality versions of this product off the shelf.

the skin and seeds are the most likely parts of the tomato to give you issues, so if you can avoid those you will probably do fine with it. on the other board it seemed many people outright claimed all nightshades (esp tomato) were "poison" but in terms of what peat said, going by memory he implicated the seeds in tomatoes as being potentially serotonergic for people who are susceptible and the skins of nightshades potentially being a problem for some as well due to the cellulose iirc.

i personally did fantastic with red, yellow, and orange bell peppers and used those instead of tomatoes. easy enough to remove all the seeds from them as well.

amazing results, congratulations. the fact that you have maintained muscularity while switching to gelatin as your only protein source is great. the loss of strength in the gym is probably more due to eliminating starch more so than anything else, but maintaining or improving muscularity and body comp is a big win, not to mention solving the prior health issues.

i'm not sure what you can do in terms of rounding out your protein intake with complete sources if dairy, meat, and eggs are problematic. peat has spoken favorably of certain foods outside of these 3 varieties having really good quality protein like potatoes but throwing in 2 pounds of potatoes (peat said this is similar to around 1l of milk in terms of protein amount so about 35g) is probably less ideal than your current scheme which seems to be having a small amount of beef for dinner on occasion.

with that said, i think you have the correct idea with how you might use a little bit of beef for dinner, i might recommend experimenting with different cuts to see which ones are more agreeable or less likely to cause issues. i've done remarkably well in the past by using a high quality mince beef while dealing with autoimmune type issues, it's not the worst cut as there is a fair bit of connective tissue in there, but you might be well to experiment with some more gelatinous cuts like lamb shank. you can also make a gelatinous stew using oxtail but i never tried the stuff myself.

when was the last time you cleaned its insides? mold and yeast can occur in the internals of drip coffee makers. you can add white vinegar + water to the reservoir and run that through a brew cycle to sanitize the insides of the machine, then run a couple more cycles with just water to remove the residual garbage + vinegar solution.

many drip makers don't get hot enough for an ideal brew so that could be throwing something off as well.

@ilovethesea great post, thanks for providing that context, i believe it is quite important in this story. i have alluded to matt stone being the canary in the coalmine for when a particular gimmick is going to make the rounds for the neurotic diet hoppers.

i saw on the old board that admin had posted a thread "matt stone believes vA was the cause of his problems" or something like that as if this was a point of pride for the validity of low vA.....i suppose this strategy is effective insofar as no one looks up what matt stone looks like recently.

i find the fact that he admitted his older ideas may have lead to his poor state of health but still has the books for sale to be particularly disgusting but i suppose anything to finance a lifestyle that doesn't involve leaving his couch is fair game.

not a good look and frankly all of these people deserve each other. all peas in the same pod indeed.

it works exceptionally well for studying and retention, it is essentially all i utilize as a full-time engineering student to ensure my time spent studying is productive.

i will drink coffee throughout the morning / early afternoon then i will use 50mg allithiamine when its time to start reading. if im still going after several hours i will take another dose.

i find it is important to have a steady supply of glucose during this block, i don't like snacking / grazing so what i will do is increase the frequency of my meals during this block, and maybe within this block a couple times i will have servings of fresh fruit. i believe it is essential to feed the b1 with adequate carbohydrates. my meals during this block are simply jasmine rice and lean meat cooked in coconut oil, fruits will either be citrus fruits or berries.

during this block i might eat a meal as frequently as once every hour or 1.5 hours just to ensure i have steady glucose. i will also use red light during this block as well for brief periods.

it is better than just coffee + sugar, absolutely. i can also attest to the fact that during this block and whenever i utilize this strategy, my gastric emptying rate is noticeably faster, which is another reason i suspect the b1 helps with cognition. the digestive benefits are not to be overlooked.

remember, you want to "feed" the b1 with proper carbohydrates, keep that in mind. don't do what people often do while studying and go in a stressed state neglecting eating, the improved retention from b1 will make up for the time spent eating or taking care of yourself. its the quality vs quantity that matters.

you don't need to go super high dose with allithiamine, i notice an improvement that lasts a few hours with just 50mg.

@questforhealth said in ADHD, Severe fatigue, digestion problems etc..:

A lot of people online often think i’m a woman it’s just worrying me at this point.

there is nothing more to this other than the fact people assume someone with flowers in their profile pic is a woman, that's all it is.