@Insomniac Ray Peat on a meat based diet and premature aging:

@sushi_is_cringe I just want to get bloodwork again soon but they wont put the script in for me unless I do this first. Could go to a third party lab myself but then gotta pay out of pocket.

Ray Peat has talked about ultrasounds being beneficial for bone growth and tissue repair, but would ultrasound exposure directly to the thyroid be safe? My doc ordered an ultrasound of my thyroid since I tanked my TSH to basically zero and got my T3 3x over the reference range and theyre concerned (i just overdosed cynomel lol) However I think a shrunken thyroid is desirable from a peat perspective so anything that could promote tissue growth ie. ultrasounds may be risky??

@samson Yeah sounds very similar to my experience.And as far as dental health goes starch and phosphate-rich proteins seem to be much worse for my teeth than sugar.

@Mauritio You can do carbs at dinner too, I think the lower carbs at dinner thing is more for weight loss purposes and just to not overeat calories at dinner. If youre doing the diet mainly for health benefits and longevity purposes and dont care about weight loss than its not necessary.

@Norwegian-Mugabe It wouldnt work the same for FGF21 induction because protein takes like 12 hours before its fully utilized. After eating only sugar your blood glucose will go back to baseline very fast like within 2 hours.

@jamezb46 I think it can work for muscle building purposes if you train in the afternoon around dinner. Or including small amounts of gelatin, or milk, or BCAA as long as its low fat during the day like 10-20g i’ve seen some people including skim milk and still having good results. Even fruit can probably supply enough protein during the day if its really a concern. A gallon of OJ has 32g protein for example. Or just having a big caloric surplus dinner and meeting protein requirements then.

@jamezb46 Yeah evolutionarily this makes sense. For example, if you were a mammal living in a tropical area, and your diet was mainly fruits, you still need to meet a certain protein requirement, despite the fruits being relatively protein deficient.

An animal eating a protein deficient food source would need to eat more food to get sufficient protein. I think the metabolism responds to this -- if your body perceives protein insufficiency, it tells you "okay eat more food bro" and burns off the excess energy. If you have sufficient (or above) protein, this effect completely disappears because the body is like "okay we're good bro stop eating. If its a good idea to hack your body into this high energy expending state i’m unsure but it definitely works.

@jamezb46 Curious if he would be able to produce the same effect with cypro + tyrosene + gelatin but no BCAAs. Considering how many factors there were im not fully convinced the BCAAs were responsible for the metabolism increase although in intrigued.

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