Posts made by Ecstatic_Hamster

@Hando-Jin said in Ray Peat was a Stalinist:

Anybody got any links to Ray's comments on either Stalin or Lysenko? I don't have all of his newsletters.

Lysenkoism was dreadful doctrinaire and stopped good research from happening.

But the idea of Lysenko is now taken up as mostly correct, in the form of epigenetics.

Dr. Peat was right about that. People are so indoctrinated into the idea of genetic determinism that science has already disproven 30 years ago.

I hear it all the time. “My father had a bad heart. It runs in my family.” This is what virtually EVERYONE thinks.

Dr. Peat opened my eyes to the epigenetic role that means we can be free from much of our genetics. And that is essentially what i think of when I think of Lysenko.

People make fun of Lysenko today, but look at what happens to dogs in captivity versus dogs in the wild. Epigenetic changes are dramatic and fast, and genetics doesn’t account for it.

I also think the idea of randomness in genetic mutations is probably completely false. I read a fantastic book called Quantum Evolution that argues for an intelligence to mutations using quantum mechanics — essentially all possible mutation worlds manifest like a quantum computer, and the “best” one is the one tha manifests in our reality. So evolution is very intelligent.

I wish I could find the website Dr. Peat mentioned on intelligent cells. It is an old website but still up. It shows how single cells are very intelligent, have something like eye sight, etc.

Dr. Peat believed that animals are intelligent, and cells, and that taught me a. Lot. I just ignore his Stalinist views and his views on economics and politics.

I found Ray Peat’s ideas outside of health to be often too wacky and wrong to be seriously considered. He was a Stalinist, a communist, and anti-Libertarian.

I find it curious that he was, but I’ve seen how we see things though our own lenses and interpret everything accordingly.

My heroes in history are Mises and Rothbard. Rothbard in particular was an amazing historian and a great writer.

I recommend his lectures that are on YouTube also. Start with the one on the Progessive Era.

I very much dislike all tattoos. I am so glad my kids have no tattoos. I also think the ink is toxic and over time, people will often regret their tattoos for reasons of social and health.

So many things I thought were a good idea when I was younger, I no longer think are a good idea. Tattoos are hard to reverse, so I would probably end up regretting mine.

The cancer industry is the worst. A cancer suffererer is said to be worth US$300K to the industry.

As soon as you are diagnosed, they rush you through treatment scaring you and painting a grim picture if you do not comply.

Their technique is scaring you with high risk scenarios, underestimating the risks of their treatment, and speeding you through before you have time to think much about it.

It is frightening how effective it is in treating people, and yet many people end up much worse off. They die from the treatment not the cancer.

@max said in cancer:

Yes, curious re: the above.

Also, I hear so many stories about young people in their 20's and 30's going to doc because of a small pain somewhere, and finding a ton of cancer. Blows my mind that they weren't in tune with any warnings beforehand. Are they just completely hardened and out of touch with their body? Or what's going on? Any warning signs when it develops?

I think it’s because of vaccines. The vaccines are terrible and young people have suffered the worst most aggressive schedule.

You don’t often have any warning even if your body is riddled with cancer. You can feel okay.

I know a lot of young people have become very hypochondriac too especially about brain tumors.

@Lovesickhs18 gosh, it’s hard to keep someone away from the doctor. People are so conditioned and they are so scared.

There is good literature out there about outcomes and it’s being updated all the time.

Doctors always OVER estimate the benefits of their treatments, and UNDER estimate the risks. You can’t get a straight answer from a doctor.

But if you dive into the literature you can find some good statistical outcomes that can guide you.

If I had a melanoma, I would use topical high grade THC on it. I might resort to blood root if that didn’t work, although it usually works. Blood root can get rid of the cancer but can create a lot of pain in the process and scarring. THC usually doesn’t.

Next on the list is prostate cancer. 40% of men are going to get it at some point and many never know it and live to a ripe old age if they aren’t treated for it.

Prostate cancer can I think be dealt with using high grade THC for a few months, like 1g a day, split into 3 divided doses as a rectal suppository.

Radiation and androgen deprivation therapy are very bad for prostate cancer sufferers, destructive and of no real value statistically speaking.

Breast cancer — the high THC, surgery is often useful. Radiation can prevent recurrence. I think the THC can be used for miantence and in hormone positive breast cancer can result in not needing something like high dose aromatase inhibitors or SERMs (Tamoxifen) that are reoutinely prescribed.

You can go down the list, blood cancers, brain cancer, colorectal cancer — and the THC suppostitories shockingly are usually very effective.

A plant based diet is very helpful because it lowers methionine and lowering methionine is a very easy and useful way to slow or stop tumor growth and support over all health.

@brad Some of my findings.

Surgery has some benefit in some cancers.

Radiatiion is usually a bad idea, but not always. For prostate cancer it’s a loser. For breast cancer it can lower chances of a recurrence and is arguably a gain.

Chemo is usually a really bad idea.

I have found that a low methionine diet, and high amounts of THC can help stop, reverse or erradicate many if not most cancers.

You need to be taking 1g of Indica THC a day, which can be done via rectal suppositories, and you don’t get high much or at all doing this. There are shockingly good results for cancers, just from THC. Sometimes, a bit of CBD added to it helps, but usually you want really high THC regardless.

@eugene fasting by stopping the consumption of food can be useful so long as you consume salty coconut water and fruit juice to preserve electrolytes and lower cortisol somewhat. And I wouldn’t do it more than 36 hours at a time.

It has one benefit, which is lowering endotoxins.

I think a diet primarily consisting of non-animal protein is very important. Keeping methionine below 1g per day is useful to stop cancer from spreading.

I think Dr. Peat never explored methionine to a great degree, at least I never heard him talk much about it, but methionine from animal protein is a factor that limits life and that promotes cancer. It is why a keto diet is a bad bad idea in cancer.

I know Dr. Peat didn’t think much of it, but low dose naltrexone can often get rid of tinnitus and I think is a very safe and useful compound that should be front and center in Peat Land.

I have been furiously researching cancer for several months. Happy to answer questions as to my findings, and would love to hear your opinions.

@max thanks for that, very interesting.

There is a difference between taking 1mg and 20mg, but I might go for 20mg if I was going through some procedure where melatonin is protective, and there is evidence for that in for instance radiation therapy.

@FTMarinetti i monitor them all the time. I carry a thermometer ij my pocket. I don't do HR as often but I do measure it.

do a lot of edging without much ejaculation. Over 3 or 4 days. Take 5mg a day of DHEA, and 50mg of pregnenolone a few times a week. That is all.

it does interfere if it's too often. But the question is, do you have a lot of volume of urine when you do pee?

Maybe 10 times a day. I drink a lot of coffee and tea and two big glasses of salted milk. I stop drinking liquids around 4 or 5 hours before bedtime.

Is your prostate okay, if you are male?

@FTMarinetti I’m experimenting. I’ve been taking 1mg before bed for the past month. I don’t know if that’s the reason, but I’ve been feeling amazing, better than I have in years.

I’m going to try 3mg for awhile. I have some 60mg capsules to try, there are reasons to take that much for remedial situations.