Posts made by Andreas

@Kvirion Yes, good point, he was very communal oriented in his way. Even founded his own university for this reason.
His communitarsim extended to humanity at large though, and not to distinct ethnic groups.

@Nabokov Personally, I would probably take the vaccines you listed then. In a medical setting they makes some sense, and it is hard to argue against it.
I would see it as a gamble, with a fairly low risk, but a high benefit (becoming a doctor).
I would try to not take them all at once, and make sure I have a good metabolism on these days.

IMO, the bad side effects are mostly for small children, where it messes with their still undeveloped immune system. And they get so many all at once at such a young age, it is madness.
But if you are grown up, with those vaccines the risk is not so high.

The mRNA is very different from those vaccines, it is the active Spike protein that creates so much havoc. The "traditional" vaccines have not an ingredietn which is active in that sense.

@Nabokov In addition to Brad's overview: you have to weigh the risks and the benefits.
Do you have a big risk to get Diphteria or HepC. If you live in a fairly clean country you probably have not, unless you are in a medical field.
And if you are healthy and well nourished, these dieseases probably are not that hard to overcome.
But if you travel to foreign countries with strange foods, specific vaccines would make sense. E.g. I got no Diphteria vaccine, but I would consider if I*d travel to a tour of India.

All vaccines have risks, which are hard to quantify. Hence it is better to overestimate the risks a bit.
Also, many vaccines are not really good in preventing the disease. Usually they use a different pathway than virus would take, they elicit different antibodies, and may interfere with inherent immunity.
If a vaccine needs adjuvants, it just means that the immune response against the antigene is not really working, and there will not be real protection.

The tubercolis vaccine is very efficient, because it uses real bacterium, thus has a comparable immune response to a real infection. The same for smallpox.

@AryanRaypEat His nutritional ideas work, and are very healthy, and conducive to a strong body (It is the original body building diet).
The current iteration of the far right on the internet values health, and a strong body. Thus is interested in his dietary ideas.
Diet fads go in cycles. A decade earlier the right was interested in the ancestral/carnivor/keto diet. In another decade they will probably be back to veganism.

As for the ideology, the far right has little in common with Peats political ideas. He valued individualism, and did not see much value in a big state or any tribalism.

He had a soft spot for Stalin though, which I don't understand. It may stem from his admiration of Russian science, and also because he hated the totalitarian forces in the USA.

@TurkishPeater Isn't T3 available form the pharmacy in Turkey, without presribtion? (Tiromel)

@Gentile In the epigenetic framework you could say that you could "improve your genes", if you widen the terminology of genes from just being the base sequence to also include the structural formation.
I don't think many people would use a term like "improving your genes", though.

Certainly the expression of genes can be influenced. Your example says the same thing: your mother was fed a sub optimal diet, hence the gene expression was changed. This can be detrimental to the offspring.
And also certainly: if you had a malnourished mother, and experienced malnourishment yourself, you will have worse cards than someone who grew up in an healthy well-nourished environment.

You can influence your health and well-being though for the better, and give your own off-spring a better chance by your lifestyle. Two people with the exact same genes will develop differently in different environment.

@Gentile I don't think Peat did not believe in genes. But he disbelieved in genes being the only determinant for an organism; the environment play a large role.

The experiment you describe doesn't make any changes to the gene sequences. But the environment (bad food) makes changes in gene expressions, which can be inherited via epigenetic.

I do not know if Peat talks about epigenetics. But I remember him talking about testing of vaccines, and that the true effects can only be determined after several generations. From this I read him as acknowledging the possibility of epigenetical changes, and effects on the organism.

@OrpingtonClose Because cortisol and estrogen are also needed, but in the right amounts. E.g. wthout cortisol you wouldn't get up in the morning

@periander345 Does cheese work? This has no whey. Good cheese out of raw milk is great, e.g. Parmigiano Reggiano. I also love Peccorino Romano, which is from sheeps milk.

@periander345 Did you try different types/brands of milk? I find that drinking non-homogenized milk is much better than homogenized.
Possibly: if the fat molecule are made too small, they will have different biological effects.
I only find non-homogenized milk in the organic stores.