Dandruff or scalp irritation? Try BLOO.
@thebodyelectric_ I have tried to fiugure out how to follow threads but there doesn't seem to be a way. Perhaps our gracious and benevolent overlord @brad could implement a follow thread feature? @brad
@thebodyelectric_ If it can heal myofascial trigger points that means that NeuX works on not just muscle tissue but also on fascia? That is very exciting. Lots of potential to heal people from all kinds of things if you can heal disordered fascia!
@PUFADestroyerPPO If oxidizing vitamin A is a problem, should we be concerned about cooking liver? Seems like that ends as an argument for eating it raw. Liver has a lot of vitamin E in it as well.
Have you ever used the NeuX to treat muscle knots?
@thebodyelectric_ What are your thoughts on isometric contraction? Is it similarly stressful as eccentric contraction or is it a middle ground between concentric and eccentric?
@Sepp-Dietrich Look at how much Ben Greenfield has aged himself over the last few years. He looks pretty bad now. I wouldn't take anything he says too seriously.
@Norwegian-Mugabe Great post! Where can I read more about Jerry Barnes? I couldn't find his work on restrain that you refer to.
An analogy can be drawn between animal neoteny and plant neoteny. Young plants have specific neotenous proportions, similar to animals. Young plants have a high proportion of photosynthetic/respiratory:vascular tissue, and a high proportion of root tissue:vascular tissue. Although plants do not have an endocrine system per se, they do have hormones. Auxin can be thought of as an aging hormone, while cytokinin can be thought of as a youth-associated hormone. Seaweed contains high levels of cytokinins, and some growers use foliar applications of cytokinin to promote a "root-dominant" state in their plants.
Another aspect of plant neoteny is larger leaves and leaves with a high width-to-length ratio. Red light is the more photosynthetically active portion of the spectrum, and I have found that supplemental red light induces this neotenous leaf phenotype.
Your mention of balanced fertilization is correct, and over-fertilization of any one nutrient or mineral can induce deficiencies of other nutrients.
Milk is beneficial to plants and is used by many people as an effective way to treat foliar fungal diseases.
Analogizing between plants and animals can be misleading. Plant metabolism is much more proliferative than animal metabolism. I like to keep this on mind so I do not get to carried away with analogizing between plant and animal metabolism. That being said, a move towards greater bioenergy in plants is probably a move away from encouraging proliferative functions.
Muscle tissue synthesizes androgens. More muscle means more androgen synthesis. This is very well established. But it doesn;t happen in a vacuum. It happens in the mitochondria and requires specific inputs and conditions.
Let's assume that we have proper thyroid function, and adequate cholesterol. Vitamin A is now the limiting reactant. The more mitochondria in the muscle tissue, the greater the potential for androgen synthesis to be taking place. Many of us CO2maxx, generating even more mitochondria.
Following this, Vitamin A can be easily made deficient, especially if you don't tolerate carotene.
It would be useful to estimate Vitamin A requirement based on muscle mass and mitochondrial density but it is probably easier to simply eat liver several times a week. If you are lifting and CO2 maxxing it is difficult to consume too much vitamin A, and very easy to consume too little.
@brad I did not peel them because the skin should contain a high amount of antimicrobials. I was not aware of the issue with the chlorine bath, this could be the issue--I am very sensitive to chlorine!
Ray mentioned once how parrots are so intelligent and long-lived due to their very short digestive tract--they poop very soon after eating. Such an intelligent companion would be very good for a person, not to mention the exosomal enrichment that they would receive! Of course, cages are not peaty so consider moving to South America and living with your parrot in a tree.
Aged hard cheese is a great food and does have calcium but you will need to eat a lot of it to correct a ratio of 1:4. You are eating 4 eggs a day, if you were to eat the eggshells from your eggs you would easily correct your ratio.
Eggshells are 38-40% Ca and negligible P, about 1.5 g Ca per shell. Wash your eggshells, microwave to dry and sterilize, then powderize in a blender. (I do it in one big batch every week or so).
Over the past 6 months, I have been eating white or yellow carrots instead of orange carrots. Many of these I grew in my own garden. These homegrown carrots I have found to be more potent than store-bought at maintaining digestion.
This morning, I ate a store-bought orange carrot. 3 hours later I was running to the toilet several times with diarrhea. 6 hours later I am experiencing a painful flare-up of scalp psoriasis and dandruff like I have not had in a very long time.
The culprit could only be carotene.
This highlights for me the difference between retinoids and carotenoids. I have dealt with dandruff and seborrheic dermatiasis for 1.5 years now, and did not find relief until I quit orange carrots and moved to white carrots. Relief also coincided with increasing my liver consumption, telling me that retinoids and carotenoids are physiologically very different, despite the tendency of the culture to treat them practically the same. Retinoids heal the skin while carotenoids damage it.
This also brings me to an observation about carrots. Store-bought carrots I find to have little flavor compared to homegrown. In homegrown carrots I can taste the antimicrobial compounds very distinctly and my mouth feels much cleaner after eating, while I find that store-bought carrots have no flavor or effect. I believe this is because carrot varieties are raised in soils with decreased microbial abundance due to modern agricultural practices.
No soil microbes = nothing to stimulate carrots to synthesize antimicrobial compounds.
I am curious to hear if anyone has similar experiences with carotene or homegrown carrots. If you truly want a sterile gut it may be up to you to grow your own carrots.
@White Starch is anabolic, you might try adding as much white rice as you have an appetite for and having the rest as fruit. And you may try putting your diet into Chronometer and checking the Ca:P just to be sure. Getting Ca:P above 1 is really beneficial ime and causes a very noticeable improvement in metabolism and mood.
In this thread I would like to challenge an idea I have seen many Peaters reinforce: the idea that more carbon in the atmosphere is necessarily good, thus we should not be concerned with limiting anthropogenic additions of carbon to the atmosphere.
The analogy is drawn between human physiology and the biosphere that CO2 is protective and associated with increased metabolism. The idea is that the greenhouse effect is beneficial to the biosphere and involves an increase in planetary metabolism and that more CO2 in the atmosphere can only be a good thing for life on Earth. This notion is reinforced by Peat's own words on page 52 of Generative Energy where he says "I don't consider the "greenhouse effect" to be a problem."
I have no knowledge of Peat ever elaborating on his understanding of the greenhouse effect beyond that line in GE. Bioenergetics is the future, and it could be potentially disastrous if we were to disregard the dangers of a runaway greenhouse effect. If anyone could provide more insight into what Peat's thoughts might be please comment. The evidence in favor of the greenhouse effect is too strong to disregard it so easily.
The Carboniferous Period may help us gain some understanding. At the beginning of the period, CO2 levels in the atmosphere were as high as 1500 ppm (compare to 400ppm today). How could it be that there was no runaway greenhouse effect during the Carboniferous? Could it be linked to other factors, like cosmic radiation?
It is my understanding that gamma radiation has a correlation with cloud nucleation and some studies reflect this. I have heard that higher levels of gamma radiation increase the formation of cumulonimbus clouds. I can find no evidence of this in the scientific literature but if it were true it could have some interesting consequences. Cumulonimbus clouds are very dense and have the opposite effect of stratospheric clouds in that they reflect sunlight and lead to cooling near the surface of the earth. The Earth is currently on a galactic trajectory that leads us to receive increasing levels of gamma radiation from the galactic center. The effect is likely small, but it is possible that over a long time period we could see greater cloud density and thus greater cooling of the Earth's surface.
If this hypothesis holds, our management of the carbon system will take a new shape. By managing carbon addition with carbon sequestration in balance with csomic influences on climate we may move towards a New Carboniferous on Earth.
The Kali Yuga is ending. Is this the path into the next ascending Age?
@Terminator I think so. Miswak has been used for centuries and is proven to be effective at maintaining dental health. Carrots have similar antibacterial and fibrous properties to miswak.
@White I wouldn't recommend a specific Carb:Protein ratio, but I think experimenting with higher carb, lower protein could help solve your problem. Also, with such a high protein consumption and no dairy in your diet it is inevitable that your Calcium:Phosphorus ratio is far out of balance. Adding eggshell calcium, oyster shell calcium, or pearl powder will help you get back to a 1:1 Ca:P ratio and you may see some improvements in your problem from this as well.
@White Hyperammonemia was the first thing that came to mind with such a high protein intake. I am guessing that you are trying to gain muscle? I would experiment with replacing some of your protein with carbs and see if it fixes the issue. 1.4:1 carb:protein is high.
From personal experience, Peating puts the protein-sparing effect of carbs into overdrive and I can gain muscle with less protein than I used to need.
I plan on making this Blood Orange Ricotta Cake soon.
I will try replacing cornmeal with masa as well to see if that changes the texture and flavor for better or worse.
@Peatriot I grew these carrots this year and really enjoyed them, very sweet and very little carotene. I also love heirloom melons. Charentais are the best I have grown so far. Planning on upping my operation this year and growing keeper melons with the hope of being able to eat homegrown melons until Christmas.
What growing zone do you live in?
