@yerrag I only refer to the chemical tendency to burn where the triglycerides can form small byproduct molecules like the toxic fragment, acrolein.

But I’m sure a small amount of such a chemical is benign considering it is formed in other behaviors like smoking. Better to just enjoy and not be a hypochondriac about such things I think.

Dr Peat once said that caramel contains very toxic molecular fragments but he would never stop eating it. If you enjoy it enough, the pleasure you feel will outweigh the negative effect of some obscure chemical reaction we are worried about.

@LucH said in does butter oxidise when used as cooking oil?:

@reasonablepete said in does butter oxidise when used as cooking oil?:

This would be the case for any cooking oil that is not particularly stable under heat, like butter. That is probably why coconut oil is preferable.

Yes indeed.
Butter is 82 % fat:

• 65 % SFA
• 30 % MUFA
• 4% PUFA.
  I cook with coconut oil and add some butter at the end, e.g. with my champigons cooked in the pan.

Solid maneuver for cooking eggs as well.

From a chemical perspective, any cooking at medium to high heat will produce incomplete oxidation, and leave behind potentially toxic byproducts. This would be the case for any cooking oil that is not particularly stable under heat, like butter. That is probably why coconut oil is preferable.

I’ve found first person shooters can quickly initiate a flow state if a person really focuses in. I’ve been studying Dr. Peats work for nearly 10 years now and I don’t think I have ever heard him discuss flow states.

Has he or anyone adjacent to him ever talked about video games or flow states? I feel like I’ve listened to most if not all his (and probably Haidut’s) radio interviews but I don’t think I have heard it mentioned.

I enjoy video games sometimes but I am wary of them as a waste of time and a damager of eye balls.

I used to engage in intermittent fasting so I am wary of people touting a diet of mostly liquids, but it’s so much different when a person is drinking highly nutritious things that are high in glucose. I think Dr. Peat has said simply giving the digestion a break can dramatically lower the inflammation caused by general food-based irritation.

@Mauritio such a simple concept with such radical implications for how we live and what society values