One man's thoughtful and informative writeup. I've even bookmarked it just in case:
Hopefully something in there helps.
Dandruff or scalp irritation? Try BLOO.
One man's thoughtful and informative writeup. I've even bookmarked it just in case:
Hopefully something in there helps.
She sounds young, that diet would catch up to her if she kept it up long enough.
Hulls are irritating to the intestine, 2.5 minutes of microwaving is damaging to nutritional content and certain internal plant substances and oils. GMO corn?
Some of these concerns can obviously be mitigated but would roomate even care to bother?
Dietary and environmental toxins? Not ingesting or being exposed as much as reasonably possible. Then vitamins and minerals take over from there. The way i've understood it, you need just a bit more than what your body uses for itself, any excess will often move on to secondary duties like toxin removal or mitigation. Ideally it would be a steady supply also.
Just a sample list but Zinc is good for certain toxins, Selenium and Copper for others, B1, Vit-C, Glycine etc etc.
Be extremely careful with some of the detox protocols you may have stumbled upon, research them well before attempting.
Agreed with LucH's post as far as i can tell at the moment.
The included folate is definitely not the optimal type. That's a topic worthy of it's own research by the way.
Yes to Magnesium.
Supplementing extra B1 along with the B-complex would be helpful for many.
Supplementing extra B3 Niacinamide would also be helpful for many.
Agreed with the B6 concerns. Back before i knew any better my B100 complex caused some of the B6 symptoms to appear, thankfully they've stopped after i switched pills and doses. I now microdose a B50 by splitting into four pieces, then take two of those pieces per day, morning and late noon. I also have most of the B's as separates which i take on certain days and at varying doses. And i use nutritional yeast flakes sparingly.
This one's a goodie, have only listened to half of it but have already learned a few new things. Thank you David, this will soon be passed on to my own circles.
As per the following article coffee contains a thousand different substances:
I linked the archived version because the current site edited out a lot of interesting info.
Take their so called cholesterol info with a grain of salt since it's likely based upon establishment "science".
I've been meaning to research two of the cholesterols a little further; cafestol and kahweol. The funny part is a standard paper coffee filter will allegedly filter them out.
Similar to eating the whole orange vs Vitamin C pills there's possibly a balance achieved by drinking coffee over simple caffeine. It'll also depend on your personal tolerance but i find i can drink a lot more coffee symptom free by adding a tiny bit of baking soda.
@Mulloch94
Will note that about big chain packaged meats with added phosphates. I often try to stay away from those but now i'll make it a point. I tend to purchase from more regional markets that have in house butchers, i don't believe they include additives but now i wonder. Genuine butcher shops seem safest.
And yes, Chris Masterjohn's information was more nuanced than I implied in my previous post, there's a bigger picture. I see he has related information in other videos and podcasts, will have to get to those soon. Some citation/sources would be nice also.
Also on my to do list; Calcium bicarbonate. Have done the Magnesium version enough times so let's see if Calcium would have anything to offer. I see even more info at the other forum.
@Mulloch94 said in Calcium for blood pressure:
Conversely, a lower calcium diet can be managed provided you lower your phosphorus consumption. This would mean relying on more vegetables and fruits, and less grains, legumes, or meats.
Apparently the type of phosphorus we consume dictates our calcium needs also, and that there's a difference in the phosphorus included in "packaged goods" and what comes natural in meats, with meat phosphorus being easier to balance.
I believe either Ray Peat or the forum was my initial source for that info but Chris Masterjohn echoes it in the following podcast @ around 43:25
https://wellnessmama.com/podcast/256/
Here is the relevant passage from the transcript pdf:
To make things worse, when they’ve done studies on how different sources of phosphorus impact your vitamin D and calcium requirements, those studies seem to indicate that the phosphorus additives in packaged foods are dramatically worse than other sources of phosphorus. For example, one of the markers you would use to look in someone’s blood at either not getting enough vitamin D or calcium, or getting too much phosphorus is a rise in parathyroid hormone. Parathyroid hormone goes up, in either of those situations, not enough D in calcium or too much phosphorus. And if you feed someone meat, which is very rich in phosphorus, it doesn’t do anything to their parathyroid hormone. If you feed someone cheese, which is high in both phosphorus and calcium, it decreases their parathyroid hormone, which is a good thing.
And if you feed someone packaged foods that have phosphorus additives, it increases their parathyroid hormone, which is a bad thing. So, you have processed foods = bad, meat = neutral, dairy products = good, in terms of affecting the balance of vitamin D, calcium, and phosphorus. So, the reasons for that, probably has something to do with the forms of phosphorus that are added to the food. They might be much more absorbable than the phosphorus from natural food. But it’s also because meat, for example, has amino acids that help you absorb calcium better from your diet. And so, meat isn’t just providing phosphorus, it’s also facilitating better calcium status when it’s consumed in the context of a mixed diet. And then, dairy products are actually providing that calcium. So, even though the phosphorus can antagonize the calcium, they’re providing enough calcium to not only make up for the phosphorus, but to put you in an even better situation than you would be without those dairy products. So, when we look at the calcium requirements, there’s a gray area because we don’t have a lot of data taking people who eat plenty of animal protein, plenty of dairy products, get really good vitamin D status, and don’t have any packaged foods in the diet, we don’t have a lot of data in those people. And it’s probably the case that calcium needs are lower in those people. It’s just, I don’t know how much lower they are. So my opinion is, you know, shoot for the 1,000-milligram mark, you can probably get away with consuming maybe 600 or 700 milligrams of calcium if you optimize everything else.
I'd call this good news, both for achieving a good calcium/phosphorus balance and lowering or at least not increasing PTH.
@Mulloch94
Real pizza from a family owned pizzaria and non-fried burgers are the best cheat meals, watch those toppings of course. But i'm going to plant a seed in your head, those fries are cooked in old oxidized PUFA I've asked for substitutes for fries in the past btw, the last time it was mashed potatoes, butter & salt.
The last ones i prepared were the canned in water type.
Dumped their water, light rinse, cut into strips, then used as a "meat" to add to a potato broth. The strips were added after the broth was already cooked and as soon as the fire was turned off.
There's obviously an infinite number of ways to prepare and serve the above as a base for different recipes. It's also a great way to hide finely cut bits of calf liver which need very little cooking time, use only a little bit and add at the very end.
To the OP, i think you've at least partially answered your own question. How average people associate healthy eating, or simply dealing with a shallow knowledge level. But there is another facet at play here, bioenergetic discussions challenge their personal paradigms, narratives, brainwashings, whatever you want to call it. So when you start going into detail they fall back upon their personal dogmas.
Keto and Carnivore folks have scratched the surface with many knowing about seed oils, gluten, meat/fat digestion etc etc. Twice i recall their enlightened befuddlement after directing them to Ray's website. It was the same way i felt too, and am still amazed by the new things i read.
We can only lead horses to water.
@hypercashoidism
i don't recall reading anything except guesswork. In addition to coconut oil i've seen castor oil mentioned more than once. A person can do separate protocols of both oils, taking a short break when completed with one before they begin the other, that would be my advice anyway ..
@Androsclerozat said in Thoughts about my diet ? Do I have potential to achieve PUFA deficiency in a few years?:
@Ray-Peat-Fanboy yeah that's because sugar boosts metabolism
Peat said that starch granules remain undigested, perforate intestinal walls and goes into the brain creating inflammation.
Life is different without starches, more emotions and life seems more vivid
I had interpreted Ray Peat's discussions as it being "raw starch" granules. Starch that either wasn't cooked well enough or wasn't prepped correctly using methods like nixtamalization etc. I do know that a sick intestine may persorb even more and deposit it almost anywhere including the spinal fluid.
It's all homogenized btw.
It's that skim and 1% milk have less of the micronized [homogenized] milk fat that's theoretically persorbed undigested and deposited raw into the bloodstream. My explanation is way too oversimplified obviously, there's much more allegedly taking place here.
Homogenized 4% whole milk would theoretically do us more damage simply due to having more milk fat to begin with.
None of this is to scare people away from milk. Keep drinking it folks, find the right type and quantity that most agrees with you. A2, goat, regular, 4oz at a time or 8oz's, find your sweetspot, keep experimenting, it doesn't have to be liters a day either. Some may need to work on their digestive system first of course...
I've both switched to 1% & skim and lowered my overall milk intake a bit, i found it much too calming in a mind numbing sort of way. It doesn't seem to happen with cheese though.
@Ray-Peat-Fanboy said in Thoughts about my diet ? Do I have potential to achieve PUFA deficiency in a few years?:
Yes I always eat the potatoes dry after removing the water. I remember reading that adding vinegar/acetic acid while boiling the potatoes can help to remove solanine. https://raypeatforum.com/community/threads/a-method-to-remove-solanine-fryom-potatoes.44421/
I haven't read about coffee improving the digestion of milk yet. I should start adding some coffee powder to milk, maybe instant coffee. What is the mechanism behind coffee improving milk digestion if they are mixed together ?
About Travis posts on milk homogenisation , I havent seen those actually, but im trying to search for those posts on RPF now
I don't recall the mechanism behind coffee and milk digestion but had heard it referenced plenty of times in the other forum. It may take quite a bit of coffee though maybe 2/1 or 3/1 coffee/milk but i'll guess that any amount may help at least some folks. Instant may make it easier. Had also heard the benefits of combining are a two way street with milk binding some of the less helpful tannins in coffee etc.
i'll try to find Travis's homogenized milk persorption comments and post them here if i do.
Edit: found a couple
I see some of our current members were in the above linked threads @Amazoniac
@Ray-Peat-Fanboy
As long as you keep the solanine content and mitigation measures in mind, scrub then boil well, don't consume the water etc. I wouldn't want the effects to slowly creep up on you. Greenish color under the potato skin is a giveaway for extra high solanine content btw, it can still be peeled and safely consumed though.
Not sure if there was any fat content in the monkey's diet, but yea, hard to be zero fat.
As for the lowfat milk, i see you've read some of Travis's posts about milk homogenization lol. We don't want raw milkfat & casein running through our bloodstream, yikes. Have you read about improving milk's digestion by combining it with coffee?
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@Ray-Peat-Fanboy said in Thoughts about my diet ? Do I have potential to achieve PUFA deficiency in a few years?:
Potato is the best carb source because it has a extremly low PUFA content compared to other carb sources like bread or pasta. More vitamins and minerals aswell.
Not to mention both protein and amino acid precursors known as ketoacids.
From what i've read potatoes and dairy together are supposedly a good choice for subsistence cultures. I'd rather not find out but if one were in poverty it's a doable healthy diet if done right.
And if you try it i'd say apply it very lightly because it can clog a pore on the rare occasion. But it doesn't seem to happen with the homemade sunscreen formula mixed with iodine/iodide.
To the OP, i'll recommend that you also research Boron to see if it can fit into your puzzle. It ties in with a couple of different aspects being discussed here.
I'll stress researching it first before adding it to a daily stack. There are some potential cons to be aware of and it's a mineral that we need very little of, with breaks taken from it during the week even. There's some research material here and plenty more at the other forum of course.