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@yerrag said in What to do as a giga fatty?:

@Androsclerozat

I've long discarded CICO. A waste of time. The body knows. Trusts its wisdom to say enough. A body in balance and well-regulated internally stops eating when it is full. It does not get hungry in between the 3 meals it gets in a day. It has energy during daytime and it sleeps soundly at night. It does not get overweight nor underweight. And burns enough calories internally it does not need much exercise to stay trim and fit.

Only in highly educated circles do people lose sight of common sense and have to waste their time measuring calories like they have nothing else to do. Being highly educated only guarantees you get an expensive piece of paper to show credulous people you know something more than they do.

If you have to count calories, then you cant possibly be healthy at all.

I so agree. CICO is a big disappointment because the weight will always come back. Your body hates to starve. It hates deprivation. It will fight you forever after you’ve lost the weight. Being kind to one’s body, (meaning eat enough calories and the right kind of calories) will serve you in a superior way.

I wish I had known this in my 20’s. I was forever starving myself trying to be an imaginary perfect size. I wasn’t even over weight. But starving oneself catches up to you as you get older and your screwed up metabolism is the price you pay.

Personally, and this is big for me, I’ve reached a point where I can eat a lot more calories now and not gain weight. That was unheard of before for me. And now my body temperature stays elevated. Just by nourishing my body. And by eating the RIGHT saturated fat.

Avoid PUFAS like the plague. They are in everything. Science is catching up to Ray Peat. They are finding now that PUFAS are implicated in cancer. And other maladies.

@Ecstatic_Hamster said in Methionine/Cysteine restriction increases longetivity AND energy expenditure:

@Amethyst said in Methionine/Cysteine restriction increases longetivity AND energy expenditure:

@Ecstatic_Hamster

My goal has been to have the glycine dominate the other aminos, if that makes sense. So I’m taking more of it. I’m trying to minimize the other ones to some degree.

The glycine has tremendously helped me in a number of areas: improved sleep, improved mood, muscles, skin. It makes you kinda chill…at least it does for me.

I have the MTHFR mutation and Chris Masterjohn says it helps with methylation. That’s another reason I take it.

• An interesting side note: I don’t lift weights, but occasionally I will jump on my Total Gym and do a workout. As a result of taking the increased glycine, It appears that my muscles are more toned and firmer. Without much exercize.
  Fyi, I don’t always take straight glycine- I use gelatin and collagen as well. I also don’t always get 20 gms. But I do aim for higher amounts. I mix it in my milk.

Thank you!!

My pleasure!

@LucH said in What Did Dr. Pete Say The K-2 To Calcium Ratio Was?:

@Amethyst said in What Did Dr. Pete Say The K-2 To Calcium Ratio Was?:

Anyway, back to my question. If you are consuming a lot of dairy ( which I am now) how much K-2 does one supplement with?

Hi,
You have to decide which king of K2 you want: MK4 or MK7?
Mk4 twice a day (half life); MK7 must be protected from oxidation (no liquid form).

I take a full spectrum Vitamin K2 which has both the MK4 (500 mcg) and MK7 (100 mcg) from ( Innovix Labs)

@Mauritio
What’s interesting to me is the foods high in cysteine are high Pufa foods:

https://veganalyze.com/foods_high_in_cystine_sources_list.html

So another win for avoiding the Pufas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag6lNs9KHcQ

How GLYCINE Benefits Your Body (Detoxing Methionine!)

(Not sure how to embed the video)

@DavidPS

I’ve read that thru modern farming practices, our soils are depleted of selenium, so supplementation of it is advantageous.

I take 200 mg. of selenium every few days or so. Then I’ll stop for a week or two so as not to overload my system.

@Ecstatic_Hamster

My goal has been to have the glycine dominate the other aminos, if that makes sense. So I’m taking more of it. I’m trying to minimize the other ones to some degree.

The glycine has tremendously helped me in a number of areas: improved sleep, improved mood, muscles, skin. It makes you kinda chill…at least it does for me.

I have the MTHFR mutation and Chris Masterjohn says it helps with methylation. That’s another reason I take it.

• An interesting side note: I don’t lift weights, but occasionally I will jump on my Total Gym and do a workout. As a result of taking the increased glycine, It appears that my muscles are more toned and firmer. Without much exercize.
  Fyi, I don’t always take straight glycine- I use gelatin and collagen as well. I also don’t always get 20 gms. But I do aim for higher amounts. I mix it in my milk.

(I also posted this on the Ray Peat Subreddit - hoping I get an answer somewhere)

I’m a big fan of Dr. Peat. Everything he has written about, in my personal experience, has proven to be accurate. He was a true pioneer. I had followed him for several years but didn’t really understand a lot of what he wrote. In the past I couldn’t wrap my mind around things he had written As “working” properly. This probably was due to the pervasive brainwashing of the mainstream government led food “advice” that we’ve been endoctrinated with over the last 65+ years. What damage that endoctrination has done!
It wasn’t until the last few years, after putting his ideas/principals into practice, that I realise how right he was about so many things.

Just had to say that.

Anyway, back to my question. If you are consuming a lot of dairy ( which I am now) how much K-2 does one supplement with?

*My goal is to get 1,200 mgs. of calcium thru diet, not supplements

@LucH
I take 20 gms of glycine a day, maybe even more because I supplement gelatin as well. It has made a world of improvement.

@Mauritio

Increase Glycine, increase Taurine and you might try Tudca too. That might help.

@ThinPicking

The way I personally approach “Ray Peat” eating is use what works for you and throw out the other stuff.

I’m finding tremendous benefit from adding collagen/ certain amino acids. I have Ray Peat to thank for that.

Just like I did with other eating approaches. I like Ray’s approach in that he didn’t demonize carbohydrates like the keto diet does. Now the ketoians are coming around to adding carbs. So go figure. Soon they won’t even be Keto anymore.

The hormone/pregnenolone/ progesterone thing that Ray endorsed did not work for me. Really threw my body off so I stopped it.

To me:

1. Just eating all low carb, or no carbs = unhealthy. Screwed up my sleep. Your brain needs sugar/ carbs to sleep properly. A tbsp. of honey to me is the perfect sleep food. And glycine/ taurine throughout the day.
   Taurine has me sleeping like a baby.
2. Just eating all carbs = unhealthy
3. Just eating all fat or too much fat =unhealthy
4. Just eating simple sugars all day ( like it seems a lot of peatians were doing) = unhealthy
5. Just eating all vegtables ( aka vegitarian diet) = unhealthy
   6)Pufas…soy, canola, corn etc= unhealthy
   7)butter, coconut oil, lard etc. = healthy IN MODERATION

*7) the thing I get out of all the info is that BALANCE is the key. For me anyway. In other words, it’s ok to have “some” carbs, “some” healthy fats, “some” protein ( i tend to eat a little higher protein now) “some” veggies, “some” fruit, “some” simple sugars, “some” exercize ( but not strenuous all the time which stresses the body and contributes to serotonin)

But eating just “one” way, and saying it is the ONLY way, in my opinion, is a recipe for disaster. Of all the approaches of eating and lifestyle, Ray Peats ideas seem the most open minded.

If people can get back to a common sense approach with food, exercize, lifestyle choices, we all might be a little healthier. In my humble opinion.

@sharko
Why would they be afraid of other people aquiring Ray Peat knowledge? Because they wouldn’t be able to profit off of it knowing others knew what they knew? Is that what you mean?

Sounds like a good idea to me. The way the former RP forum was set up, the information was all over the place. You had to go searching and searching and so much info. was contradictory.

I think all the RP info being in one place in a clear and concise manner would be good.

@Lothric

Use a product called Beet Flow.

@Lothric

Taurine 3-5 gms.

Magnesium powder

They both work.

So I started supplementing Taurine about 3.5 weeks ago and now I think my muscles look more defined and firmer than before.

Could it really be working that fast?

And I don’t even lift weights. I occasionally do *some resistance training on my Total Gym, but I do emphasize “occasionally”. Not regularly. I’m kinda lazy lol. I also walk for exercize 3-4 x a week.

That’s all I do by way of exercize.

I’ve been taking 4-5 gms of taurine a day and also 5 gms. of glycine.

So is it the Taurine? Or glycine? Or both?