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@sushi_is_cringe pineapple is one of my favorite go tos. I don't worry much about citric acid bc canned or fresh pineapple is peak fruit.

@mayishima isn't it called baking soda?

@polba

A lot of dog food pouches don't contain carrageenan now and they make a point of saying it.
Can you imagine - canine IBS is more important to BIG FOOD than long term health impacts on humans?

@peatlegal

going to follow up my last post noting:

I've since tried regular raw carrots. Generally felt good eating baby carrots or a regular carrot raw in between meals or at lunch time. I used to eat these with lots of salt and/or fruit as a child.

My issue is that "shaved carrot" only "works" if one does not chew the carrot! The carrot is going to be chewed. Only the weakest jaw would allow strands of carrot to be swallowed. Point being I think chunky carrot is good. To me, the oil and vinegar is not so important. I think it's just a good additional fiber that can be added to a lunch or as a snack and not necessarily every day.

@Insr

Right and anyone eating Peaty is essentially required to eat calcium and dairy. Why would anyone supplement iodine when we're already eating too much of it?

@lobotomize-me
install more RAM or get a bigger processor.

Isn't Iodine all throughout the food supply? Most salts are iodized now. Not sure about the salt used in processed foods. One can read online:

An eight-ounce serving of nonfat cow’s milk contains 85 mcg of iodine, more than half of what you need daily.

In other words, daily amount is 140 mcg. Two glasses of non-fat milk should in theory supply this.

Is there something I'm missing? Is iodine content actually lower in milk and dairy products? Isn't the issue iodine-excess?

@gg12

Not to get too "new age-y" but at a material level, there is unity. Even the Trinity appears to be a way of saying that opposition or dualism exists within a third "something" of space and time. When I began learning about how Church theology is Aristotle and Augustine (and ultimately Plato) - Jewish, Egyptian, Babylonian, and other myths and stories aside - I saw a big problem interpreting scripture literally which is what basically everyone does.

Anyways, if it's an end it's also a beginning. What was becomes what is. Death becomes things and people and animals, but the living absorb those absences and transformations too. We could reject and deny death. The book "Denial of Death" by Ernest Becker makes the argument that that's what we do in order to live. I haven't read it entirely but it discusses self vs body, things like this. He mentions how the dread of death may be serving a function that is not concerned with the literal reality. That would have some biological and symbolic implications. From Ernest Jones' biography of Freud, Becker quotes:

Freud always faced with complete courage any real danger to his life, which proves that the neurotic dread of dying must have had some other meaning than the literal one.

Anyways, I don't know. Some of these figures are heroic. When you read about martyrs they seem to want to die - whether Christians, Muslim, etc. They seem to be bent on reward in the afterlife or on their unworthiness in this life. But that seems to be a distraction from the dread of the idea of death, which is why I think the "reward" of heroes, soldiers, brave people, is also something about having fulfilled this life in the very act of dying, simplifying it. The way so many people say "die for this country," it's implied that serving is dying and that for this cause or that cause may not align with everyone's idea of a just cause of war and a Good or moral death. The idea of accidental deaths or overdoses or compromising deaths makes us cringe at how we live. There are tragic deaths and peaceful deaths but everything is dying... and being born. Jonah in the Whale is the Sun being reborn. The birth (resurrection) is the three-day period when the Sun is at its lowest before slowly rising after the winter solstice. The spring equinox is the correct New Year from ancient times. Sometimes it's good to dwell on the idea that you might be struck down tomorrow, and get your affairs in order.

I think about death every day and in different ways, maybe not consciously. Weird how "born again" Christians rely on the birth concept when birth is also the opposite of death... so Puritans or harsh sects might be the opposite, preaching death and mortification of the flesh.

@peatyRD sounds like it.
Buteyko or periodic breathing techniques, EFD or getting a break and going outside.

@peatyRD
hmm. I've actually had a heavy head lately. To me it feels like a direct consequence of restraint of language, feeling anger, and lack of personal space.
I wonder if you feel crowded or lack personal space? In the past I've worked in open office plans and it was awful - the strain required to think and drown out noise, plus the feeling of exposure and lack of personal space. I don't know, just throwing out ideas that may help.

@sushi_is_cringe said in peaty books:

basically low energy doomer is all i can think of to describe cuckishness

I don't know Sushi, sitting down and writing is basically hermitic - it's recoiling from life. Vitality entering the pen instead of the phallus, right? The "vitalist" or high energy non-doomer "writer" is one who does not write.
But in all honesty you should consider reading fiction from any of the fiction authors I mentioned. I don't read fiction very much anymore - I think we will agree that Peat has shown how much fiction exists within "non-fiction," science, and academic work.

@jamezb46

You can read the source all you want. Just like in art, nothing in philosophy is original. Was he just parroting the four-fold path of Buddhism? Maybe Jung has more to say on this. Philosophy is as an art and an activity. Besides the pre-Socratics, Wittgenstein is really the only one who "awakened" anything of consequence for me. A lot of modern philosophers (post-Renaissance) are basically playing the role of sociologists or psychologists. Understanding man in society, or, the mind in man. Yes, it's both but none of this is new.

@sushi_is_cringe

btw I feel like Bergson's insights are typically unexpected or irrelevant to his main subject. But he was implicated in "relativity" and "time-space" innovations (which appear to be radical, dogmatic beliefs forced on Western physics and science).

@ThinPicking
lol

I'm curious what sushi-hater thinks is cuck literature or philosophy? I'm pressing into it for fun. Cucked is like, uh, Foucault or uh, Walt Whitman. But people say Whitman is machismo... yeah, he was literally gay. Nietzsche, despite his literal cucked life, does offer some vitalist ideas. But again, this is nothing new - Nietzsche is basically a 19th century impersonation of Celsus from the 2nd century who was arguing against the nascent Roman Church and their borrowed, unoriginal mythologies and morals. Reading is cucked if one wants to have that mindset. Learning is cucked. Intellect is cucked. But I don't take that view.

@JamesGatz

how did they show you the gat lands?

@Milk-Destroyer

Mainstream science says pregnenolone is made from cholesterol. Can you produce good pregnenolone levels eating high cholesterol foods? It does say olive oil and coconut oil, which sounds fine.

https://www.livestrong.com/article/72359-convert-cholesterol-pregnenolone/

Lol... "Dr. Petre."

There are good fats, too, which can help protect the heart instead of hurting it, Dr. Petre says. "Eating healthy fats like nuts, fish, avocado, chia or flax seeds, olive or coconut oil will naturally increase the [material] needed to make more pregnenolone," she says.

I wonder if they're trying to clown Peat.

Peat:

"When we metabolize cholesterol, what happens is under the influence of thyroid hormone, which stimulates oxidation, and vitamin A, which activates the enzymes to clip a chain off cholesterol, thyroid and vitamin A are the factors we need mostly for producing pregnenolone from cholesterol. So if you're low in cholesterol or thyroid or vitamin A, you're necessarily going to be deficient in pregnenolone, and pregnenolone is the immediate precursor to progesterone and DHEA."

I'm not really big on supplements beyond aspirin but I suppose you make a good point.

@Mauritio

Did you cut starch entirely, or are you replacing it with carbs?

@peatyRD said in Solutions for head heaviness?:

Seems like you were working with a fairly holistic PT - I'd have to do some research to find a good one near me. I live in a metro area so there's lots of specialists, shouldn't be too hard to find one.

Yes, I later discovered the company is trained in the bio-psycho-social model, which is related to Dr. Sarno's work and psychogenic pain. I think it's very effective and am very grateful.

@peatyRD said in Solutions for head heaviness?:

I started to add cream and coconut oil,

Of course do what works for you. I find the coco oil is better for me eaten at night with ice cream. In morning it is too abrupt and gives me racing heart beat.

@peatyRD said in Solutions for head heaviness?:

very very tight

Yes, I heard the same thing about my upper back. Honestly I think I felt some acknowledgment that I work hard and deal with unfavorable situations. Psychotherapy would come in and say "let's change that" without acknowledging the present position. So I guess the way of acknowledging the present circumstances is helpful. Psychotherapy somewhat neglects the body or at least has a thin view of what the body is doing and how drugs and food interact with the body and stress overall. I think they largely believe the "imbalance in the brain" nonsense that was pushed by drug companies. I think there's an imbalance, but it's obviously in the gut because that's where serotonin is produced, which goes right back to Peat's work with pro-metabolic food!

I went to a massage a few years ago and felt temporary relief but it basically became worse in time.
Finally went to the PT but I was not open to chiropractors because I've heard they can cause damage. The PT was doing some reduced intensity chiropractic work which I think is fine (never caused overt pain).

@peatyRD said in Solutions for head heaviness?:

but seems like it's time to seriously consider the emotional/mental aspect.

If you believe you can get better that will at least start you on the right way. Sarno posits mild oxygen deprivation being a physical cause of pain. Maybe this is also true for head heaviness. Do you take B vitamins or eat plenty of food with B vitamins?

@Luke
He wants fiction. Is Peat fiction?
I think he should read Henry Miller

@peatyRD said in Solutions for head heaviness?:

I usually use it for a couple minutes which helps but the pain usually returns when I'm doing something like dishes or putting my toddler to bed

Anecdotally I was rolling on my foam roller with the huge knobs for 10-15 minutes. Also have a hard muscle-knot targeting ball that I use occasionally. I was stretching, doing certain routine stretches and had very limited relief until doing PT (Where I think some of the mental and nervous connections were made).

@peatyRD said in Solutions for head heaviness?:

It's very distracting/draining, and likely associated with the low energy state/brain fog.

Do you drink coffee? I started adding milk and sugar and am digesting coffee far better, getting more energy, and no cortisol-like stomach pain and jitters.

@peatyRD said in Solutions for head heaviness?:

Might be worthwhile to investigate continuous blood glucose trends for a week or two?

I don't see why not...seems popular in the Peat community. I do not monitor blood sugar, but I notice that I eat more carbs and have 3 meals a day to keep up with my job and feel generally much better than trying to restrict calories, eat lots of protein, etc. It's so counter-intuitive to what literally 99% of people will say is good or recommend.

Yeah, the GNM guy Dr. Hamer sadly passed on, just as Dr. Peat is no longer here. Their tracts of work are here in some capacity for us to piece together. I can't find Peat talking much about biofeedback (if you know where he does, feel free to link) whereas GNM proceeds first from biofeedback / environment interaction.

@peatyRD said in Solutions for head heaviness?:

The improvements could be placebo, so I'll have to be consistent with it for a few nights to check for continuing improvement.

I wrote in a different thread that Dr. Sarno differentiated between placebo and lasting pain relief when he talked about TMS (tension myositis syndrome) being largely driven by unconscious rage. "Placebo" treatments are temporarily useful. He thought / measured that lasting relief came when patients accepted their pain was stemming from unconscious rage and not mechanical, physical issues. Very worth reading his books.

My take is there are mechanical causes of pain. However, the mechanical component is always linked to a mental component. So every movement or repetition is corresponding to a mental criterion. I know that playing an instrument can cause carpal tunnel or joint pain but I'm certainly convinced that mental stresses go along with this ability, just as physical work or procedures are accompanied with a mental directedness which might be under distress.