Posts made by Dakota

How long have you been "peating"? Some people need a couple of months of refeeding after being malnourished from other diets. Have you tried Ray's recommendation of sugared salted milk before bed? I usually do 1 tablespoon of sugar and 1/4 tsp salt per 8oz of milk. I think the combination of calcium and sodium should keep oxidative metabolism going throughout the night. I usually take vitamin D with it as well.

You shouldn't be trying to blunt hunger. According to Broda Barnes, a loss of appetite was the one of the first signs that something has gone wrong for a person. Anything that inhibits those signals to eat are Anti-peat and probably going to wreck metabolism in the long term

@Androsclerozat I think those are the last of our concerns at this point. There are so many more toxic things in our environment that we actually have control over.

I made some homeade Progest-E with the ePothex powder from Amazon and the Everday Beatuty D-Alpha Tocopheral, and small amount of added coconut oil, all in accordance with Dr. Peats patent. It works great and is cetainly a bit of a different feel from the Kenogen product. So maybe your issue was with the quality of the vit E or progesterone powder, or there was some error in the heating and mixing process. I think the patent calls for specific ratios and that you can only use pure D-Alpha Tocopheral or Mixed tocopherols. SuchLabs has since shut down now and im not sure why but maybe you just got a junk product.

I put all of my Ray Peat related stuff on Obsidian. Good thread.

@jens I would love to see those case studies, where can I find more information about the vegetotherapy? I like the idea of breaking the "dams" that impede energy flow, sounds like there is much overlap between TCM, Peat, and Reich.

@thyroidchor27 Mainly just chilled out similar to cyproheptadine. It makes your gut feel indestructible as well, I would check out haiduts post on it. I think he was taking up to like 16 or 32mg at one point.

@periander345 Not that I can remember but it shouldn't hurt.

I've always asked my self why I knew of both Reich and Aajonus long before I had heard of Peat. I have had a physical copy of the orgone accumulator handbook for years now but never ended up finishing it and I had also planned on buying an orgone blanket from his store but never got around to it. Did you know that James Demeo passed away just 7 months before Ray Peat, and they were both from Oregon?

@periander345 I was prescribed it at 4mg pre-peat. It worked amazing to stop constant diarrhea when I had some kind of intestinal irritation. Peats recommendation though was 1mg or less I believe, haidut also posted a study where in higher doses it could cause heart issues but was reversed with progesterone and pregnenolone.

@Mr-X Agreed, it's always best to do what feels right to you even if others have their own preferences.

Most of the NDT products are pretty low quality and don't have much T3/T4, I think there have even been studies on them lacking the hormones. I believe Peat had lost faith in all of them before he passed, I still like haiduts tyromax though.

Just take a big dose of vit K and some coffee, pretty similar.

@insufferable When I hear WV my mind goes to the DuPont scandal with PFAS, I think that something like that could have had a lasting impact on those community's in ways that we still don't understand. I'm sure there were higher rates of cretinism, etc. But I think the most bioenergetic country to move to would be somewhere with high elevation in Russia/Bulgaria since they already understand most of these ideas and have for decades and decades before many in the U.S. Carbon dioxide baths, man made pyramids, brain wave testing, orgone principles, etc. https://youtube.com/@bosanske.piramide?si=qHOOVVMy4TlYOwkc

@insufferable From toxins? Don't they have a bit of elevation though...

I just imagined crossing the street and getting hit by a ca—

Isn't Citric acid made with mold unless you get a specific brand? And I've found 2 cups baking soda works fine in a bath though doesn't give you as much of the pink warm skin feeling. Sometimes I'll make co2 with a diffuser and put it on my feet or hands...

@snack_log my whole body feels a lot more "sturdy" like it would be harder to push me over if I was standing still with my feet flat on the ground. And my muscles can get very flexed and relaxed, probably from the high energy resting state ray has discussed.