I have listened to the whole first talk which was linked in this thread and I am not impressed. He did not really address the difference between taking pure glucose and consuming starchy / sweet foods except of saying "the brain has turned down the valve" due to "glucose limiting injuries", whatever that is supposed to mean. But somehow pure glucose is avoiding this "turning down of the valve".
I think the results he gets with his patients are a mixture of providing glucose which is easily assimilated and a placebo effect. Drinking a coke is probably just as effective as swallowing 10 dextrose tablets.
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Posts made by Atman
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RE: Glucose loading cures everything?
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RE: Friends
I think if people are really attracted to each other, either romantically or platonically, they will find a way to meet up, especially nowdays, when you can be at the other side of the globe within a day.
However, I imagine the kind of people who are into reading Ray Peat's work might not be very numerous and at the same time perhaps not the most sociable, and instead tending to cherish a certain level of solitude.Where do you live? Maybe there are some people here from that area, who are willing to meet up.
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RE: The ethics of having children while in sub-standard metabolic condition
@DonkeyDude
Good luck then. I think there is no other country in which it is easier to get neetbux than in Germany. Of course in general, I despise the welfare state system and people who abuse it, but since we are currently in an era of decline and we desperately need a major societal crisis, I encourage anyone to abuse the rotten system as much as possible to accelerate the inevitable.In regards to the medical system, yes, it's best to stay as far away from it as possible. The are only a few exceptions like trauma surgery when you have fallen from a rootop or something similar.
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RE: Has anyone felt worse after eating seed oils?
@lanadelesoteric said in Has anyone felt worse after eating seed oils?:
I've always felt better after seed oils. Mcdonalds or slop always makes me feels good. But this is how you know its from the devil.
That's weird. Maybe you have never had a high quality homemade burger?
I had my fair share of BigMacs as a child and I loved them, but I didn't know any better. Now, after many years of cooking my own food, I can hardly get them down when I travel and have no other option. -
RE: The ethics of having children while in sub-standard metabolic condition
@DonkeyDude
Absolutely incredible...
Thanks for sharing.
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RE: Grant Genereux admits he "didn't do a whole lot a research" for his anti-vitamin A books
@Mulloch94
I am not disregarding science in general, just the current state of what we call "scientists". I expect the next breakthrough to be much more likely to come from someone like Grant, who is not an official scientist, than from the average university phd lab worker. The fact that it was a miss in the case of Grant doesn't matter for me. His general attitude of not caring about established beliefs and making new wild hypothesis and experiments is the way to go. -
RE: Grant Genereux admits he "didn't do a whole lot a research" for his anti-vitamin A books
I like his personality and his renegade experimentation approach. We desperately need that again. Today, people believe the only source of truth are universities and other large reasearch fascilities, where an army of lab workers, called scientists, are doing "research" with expensive machinery producing papers desperately trying to confirm the most recent, narrow minded trend which is supposed to be pushed. Thank god they are continuously losing credibility for many years now.
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RE: DEPRESSION
I know people don't want to hear that on Peat-related forums, but have you considered that your symptoms might have psychological causes?
If you're aligning the basics of your diet with Peat's insights, you're already doing better than 99% of the population on that front. So perhaps the solution isn't the final weird supplement cocktail, diet mineral ratio or detox procedure? I am talking from personal experience. Thought and metabolism are strongly interrelated. Ironically, Ray has done a lot of work related to that, but people usually focus only on his work related to nutrition and hormone physiology, because it's more easily accessible and closer to the Zeitgeist.What does your living situation look like? Do you have family / people around you, who care about you? How many hours a day do you spend consuming media? How many hours a day do you spend doing something creative / productive? ...
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RE: Bioenergetic Guide to Pregnancy?
@ILikeToGetPeatOn Good thread, I am also very interested in this topic since we plan to have children soon.
In general, I guess it is extra important to avoid unnecessary stress during pregnancy and to keep the woman well nourished at all times.
I am wondering whether any Peatarians have tried the supplemental progesterone Peat has mentioned multiple times which should lead to above average intelligence in the offspring. I asked this question quite a while ago on RPF, but hardly got any answers. It seems like many men are more interested in keeping their scalp hair and growing their penises than having superior children...
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RE: Current Readings
I had it in my library for 6 years and finally came around to reading it. I can highly recommend it.
Got into Butler by a recommendation in one of Peat's very old interviews. Butler is essentially one of Peat's intellectual grandfathers.
If you are interested in his work, start with "life and habit".