Posts made by Ecstatic_Hamster

I always thought a low heart rate was from having a big heart. Isn't that the case? Work out and your heart grows bigger and has to beat slower at rest. Am I missing something? Dr. Peat said the same thing.

I think a HR in the 70s is good for a middle aged adult or older adult because it indicates good thyroid function. I'm not sure there is any benefit to it. It is a sign of healthy metabolic rate, or can be.

If you look at the studies, many times higher HR is associated with greater morbidity and mortality. Because people with a high HR often are sick and sedentary.

It's the whole picture that counts and it's very complicated. Just like as people get old, a higher TSH can be associated with greater longevity for some reason.

https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article-abstract/94/4/1251/2596354
Design/Setting/Patients: We analyzed TSH, FT4, and TSH frequency distribution curves in thyroid disease-free Ashkenazi Jews with exceptional longevity (centenarians; median age, 98 yr), in younger Ashkenazi controls (median age, 72 yr), and in a population of thyroid disease-free individuals (median age, 68 yr) from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1998–2002 (NHANES controls).

Results: Serum TSH was significantly higher in centenarians [1.97 (0.42–7.15) mIU/liter] than in Ashkenazi controls [1.55 (0.46–4.55) mIU/liter] and NHANES controls [1.61 (0.39–6.29) mIU/liter] (median, 2.5 and 97.5 centiles) (P < 0.001). The TSH frequency distribution curve of centenarians was relatively similar in shape to controls but shifted significantly to higher TSH, including TSH concentration at peak frequency. The TSH distribution curve of the NHANES control group was superimposable to and not significantly different from the Ashkenazi controls. FT4 was similar in centenarians and Ashkenazi controls, and there was a significant inverse correlation between FT4 and TSH in both groups.

Conclusions: The TSH population shifts to higher concentrations with age appear to be a continuum that extends even to people with exceptional longevity.The inverse correlation between TSH and FT4 in our populations suggests that changes in negative feedback may contribute to exceptional longevity.

I can't abide people who think communism is a good idea, so I shall refrain from further posts. Thank you for your views anyway.

@AinmBeo what's your point? We're not on that site, are we? If you have a direct link to a pertinent discussion that would add to this thread, but just mentioning it's discussed on another site is not helpful.

Read many studies and yes, around 220 - 240 is the lowest mortality in almost all studies. It begins to fall off around 280.

The lower than 220 is much higher mortality and when you get into 150s, then you are in real trouble.

If your cholesterol is 280 (as mine was) it is a hypo thyroid symptom more than anything else.

it's a common tactic to criticize the USA and how things are run as if that is the opposite of this ideal Communist world.

I'm not defending the USA. I'm defending the principles of freedom from authoritarianism, the freedom to do whatever you want so long as you aren't hurting others, the freedom to keep your own labor and the fruits thereof, the freedom to extract resources from the world and make them your own.

The USA is hardly a capitalist paradise. It's corporate fascism largely with some freedom around that. It's still better than many if not most places if you value freedom and the ability to get ahead on your own initiative.

But the principles of freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom to make it or fail, above all freedom to OWN GUNS, is what makes the USA a special place and far better than most other places.

I work with people around the world and they are not even allowed to own a firearm. This is fundamentally putting them at the mercy of their government. Here in the USA, we have an armed militia, consisting of almost everyone, and that goes a LONG way towards fighting the worst authoritarianism.

220 to 240 consistently shows lowest all cause mortality.

This is something that I've investigated quite a bit, and I haven't really come to any good conclusions. It is true that animals such as birds and bats that have a high metabolism live much longer than their brethren that have a lower metabolism.

But it is also true that there are very long-lived animals such as turtles that have a low metabolism and live a long time.

Also, there is some evidence that people with lower body temperatures live longer.

However, I think there is also a problem with low body temperatures, which is that it tends to encourage the growth of cancer.

So I would like to keep my metabolism at a reasonable level, similar to what it was maybe 20, 30, 40 years ago when I was young, but I don't want to go crazy with it either. And I don't think that the jury is out on this matter at all.

I'm not sure precisely what a bile dub is, but I do remember people have told me in the past about a treatment with olive oil and lemon juice .

And basically it results in the peeing out of lots of little tiny stones, which allegedly is supposed to help gallstones or something like that. I'm not really sure. It sounds kind of dreadful, but I've read about it and I've talked to people who have done it. I'm not sure if that's what he's talking about.

Communism seeks to remake mankind and its adherents believe in the blank slate hypothesis. They will go to any lengths to try to implement their system and millions upon millions have died because of it.

The USA was founded on enlightened principles that are far more in alignment with the best of human nature. I believe in complete freedom and the non aggression principle. Seems obvious to me that this is the best way to live so we have maximal freedom.

@gentlepotato so would you say you feel better. Is libido better. Is sleeping better. Is brain fog better. Thank you for your helpful account.

Yes it’s the worst thing ever, especially when backed up by people’s idéology of communism.

@sneedful yeah, one of the dumb shit things people say here and there is, “it’s like the flu.” It can be like the flu, but it can be very very bad. I agree it’s man made probably based upon DNA analyses I read about. Seems like gain of function bla bla bla, but I never cared because either way you get sick, whatever the origin.

I never got the jab, neither did any of my immediate family either. Both my wife and I have gotten very sick with it. I never once considered the jab but to be fair, I know jabbed relatives who did not get sick at all. But, I have to note, many have had serious health issues since then which I connect with the jab. Blood clots, heart attacks, stroke, cancer.

Edited to add: I got sicklest from what I think was NOT Covid but was the flu.

@sneedful said in Any recommended works on the practice of sex?:

@Ecstatic_Hamster is it possible to be healthy and bang different women? the reactionary take on contenporary loose culture is to get a tradwife . i think possibly being intimate with multiple women is an option

It is quite possible. Of course it is.

Probably 10 - 15% of men are not monogamous types at all.

I do think that once you go down this road, you get very attached to one person and just can’t get enough of them. But that doesn’t mean you don’t have sex with other women, necesssarily. It isn’t something I want to do but I completely understand it.

I think cannabis is a Peaty substance or would be had Dr. Peat really studied the latest research. The endocannabinoid system is connected to the lymphatic system and connected to every single nerve and cell. I would go for real CBD or better yet CBDA and THC or THCA.

@sneedful what a story.

I’ve had Covid twice. First time I got monoclonal antibodies that prevented a fever and I recovered from a severe Delta infection in a couple weeks (remember Delta?).

Then I got it about 2 years ago, and took Paxlovid. I think it was very helpful. People who have not had full blown really bad Covid don’t realize it can be very, very bad. The Paxlovid was amazing. I did rebound but it wasn’t too bad a rebound.

But the sickest I ever got was in 2020 March, when I had 105F fever for about a day and that’s when I got pneumonia. I had what I think was a very bad bird flu. I had to sit up for days, doing bag breathing, trying to survive. I was going to die at home if that’s what happened, but no hospital for me as Covid was starting and that seemed a grim way to go even then (I mean, in the hospital.)

So I didn’t tell my family how sick I was. My son took care of me and I stayed in my room alone to prevent transmission to my family.

I’m working on never getting sick again. I think Dr. Peat was sick from Covid for months and then died apparently from an aneurism which probably came from the Covid. That’s my speculation.

@foobarbaazquux Very thoughtful questions.

The Tantric tradition believes in polarity during intercourse, with penis into vagina energy flowing into the woman, up through her breasts into the man (assuming Missionary) and down again. Sex is always recirculation of energy between partners. Heterosexual is ideal flow, but it can flow in gay sex in some way too.

The mistake we make in sex is viewing it as an act of climbing a hill and then falling down the other side. Get to the PONR and the orgasm. It’s the Big O, that’s what it’s about.

When I was little, Christmas would come and there was a huge hullabaloo about it…and a huge build up. Then the day was there, and it was quickly over. I wondered what the fuss was about.

That’s an orgasm. 15 seconds of incredible pleasure, sure, but then it’s over.

With recirculating energies, with dwelling inside her, I can have sex for hours, and then be ready again. I’m always ready.

And I am so in love with my partner, I am so full of love for her, it is always spilling over. And her love is like that for me (although different of course as she’s not me). This is the most incredible feeling in life.

For men, sex can be an extraordinary source of energy and power and joy and achievement. I have learned how to have hours of orgasmic pleasure, either with her or by myself.

For women of course it can be equally great, but it is quite different. It is a source of faminine power, and if you look carefully you notice that behind the scenes, women run everything. That’s why they live longer than men do. They don’t have all the striving and competition men have. Just let the men go through alll that. Women are often smarter than men and enjoy life more by doing less.

That is basically what my book explains how to do and how to become.

@ThinPicking great!

I've been an expert on sex for many years now. Mainly for men. My book Masculine Maximizer will be out very soon on Amazon. Meanwhile feel free to post any question for me to laugh at and judge you. I mean, help you with. Humor.

I had no idea about sex when I started this journey. Everything we are taught about sex, or discover, is 90% wrong. Without being New Age about it, sex is the gateway to happiness and contentment and longevity.

keep in mind that covid can lead easily to opportunistic bacterial pneumonia. This is one time I would get a chest x-ray is definitive for a diagnosis. There is NO other way to diagnose pneumonia. The chest x-ray is the gold standard.

I got pneumonia from a very severe bird flu and levofloxacin cured it.

My wife got pneumonia from covid and had a similar experience. We'd both be dead without that antibiotic as nothing else worked. I had tried doxy, amoxy, and azithro.

I think another mechanism that may be in play here, with Dr. Stephens' system, is suppression of hyperglycolysis. Which produces only pyruvate and a little CO2 and energy, and burdens the brain. The brain responds by diminishing consumption of glucose and switching partially to using glutamine. This is EXACTLY what happens with Warburg's "cancer field" idea.

I proposed this idea to ChatGPT

Potential Mechanisms for Glucose Loading to Work:
Potential Mechanisms for Glucose Loading to Work:

•	Enhancing Mitochondrial Function: By providing ample glucose,
you could support mitochondrial oxidative metabolism by ensuring a
steady supply of pyruvate to the Krebs cycle, increasing electron
transport chain activity and ATP production. 

• Reducing Lactate Buildup: Slowing down glycolysis might reduce the accumulation of
lactate (which occurs when pyruvate is converted to lactate in
anaerobic glycolysis), which is often a hallmark of hyperglycolysis
in conditions like cancer or impaired mitochondrial function.

• Rebalancing ATP Production: Encouraging ox-phos would lead to
more efficient ATP production (since oxidative phosphorylation
produces significantly more ATP per glucose molecule than
glycolysis) and may reduce the compensatory need for rapid
glycolysis in states of high energy demand.

Caveats:

•	Cancer Cells and Adaptation: In cancer, cells have adapted to
rely on glycolysis due to changes in mitochondrial function or other
oncogenic signaling. Glucose loading alone may not be enough to
reverse these metabolic shifts. However, in non-cancerous
hyperglycolytic states, it could potentially restore metabolic
balance. 

• Tumor Environment: The tumor microenvironment, which
often includes hypoxia (low oxygen), favors glycolysis. Simply
providing more glucose may not necessarily shift cells back to
ox-phos in such environments without other interventions (e.g.,
improving oxygen availability or mitochondrial function).

Conclusion:

While it is speculative, the concept of glucose loading could
theoretically help regulate metabolism by reducing hyperglycolysis and
encouraging oxidative phosphorylation, leading to increased CO₂
production and more efficient energy use. This could be beneficial in
certain cases of metabolic dysregulation, though in cancer cells, their
preference for glycolysis may make this strategy more complex. Further
research would be needed to confirm whether this approach is effective
across different conditions where hyperglycolysis occurs.