Posts made by evan.hinkle

I think Peat himself said ashwaganda was serotonergic, (I know you said you aren’t currently taking it). The porn and masturbation are for sure causing issues, but the issue isnt so much that you’re engaging in that, (without end-point gratification mind you-which is a whole separate issue potentially) but rather porn and masturbation are a symptom, (again, like the meticulous logging of food and supplements) of what seems, (to me) sky high serotonin. You are trying to control everything in your life, (down to denying yourself ejaculation because of a potential negative outcome).

This is not what you want to hear, but if you’re not having fun playing soccer you should quit. It sounds like your life is totally devoid of joy. I don’t say this lightly, I say it as someone who had a similar experience playing competitive sports. I now wish I never played sports, and believe strongly that my time spent playing them caused most of the health issues I have today, (but more so, my playing sports in the first place was a symptom itself of my lack of energetic living). I hope you find your happiness, whatever that is for you. I have, and it took me til I was about 40. I hope you don’t have to wait so long. Be well.

@random both

How’s your liver health? Can you drink coffee at night without keeping you up? Is your tolerance to alcohol non-existent?

In the time I’ve been using Peat’s work to better my health, the people I’ve come across who were non-responders to supplements typically had liver dysfunction.

@random but in a lucid dream you have the ability to access the subconscious. I have found that incredibly impactful personally.

One time I asked to speak to my subconscious, and I asked it what was holding me back. It replied fear. I pondered this for a while because I didn’t feel particularly fearful, and then I googled the hormone responsible for fear. I got cortisol as a search result. This led me to Ray Peat’s work and literally changed my entire life.

I’d call that impactful, YMMV…

I wonder if the water is not playing a role in the 29 month old mice who are showing signs of reversal of age? For instance, water can be structured many different ways, (red light, vortexing, filtering through rock like media). I wouldn’t be surprised if the ultrasound is structuring/energizing the water, and it’s the mice being bathed in this substance that is exerting the effects.

I have heals many maladies in the past simply structuring water and then soaking my feet in that water. For whatever reason that I can only guess about, my best results have always come from using sea-water, (structuring that, and then soaking my feet in that). The results are systemic. A rough patch of skin on say my knee is returned to normal by soaking my feet. An increase in energy, (not driven by cortisol) can be observed by soaking my feet.

I say all of this to say: water may be playing a key role in these findings, (though if ultrasound is capable of structuring fluid, the fluids of the body may suffice too). I just personally have had remarkable success with “bathing” in structured water.

@Mauritio excellent! Exactly the lead I was looking for thanks!

I had ultrasound long ago when I had knee surgery, (I don’t ever have knee problems anymore). I’m following this thread with great interest. Anyone find any info on ultrasound for the thyroid? I seem to remember an old study @haidut posted on the old forum about heat alone regressing tumors…

I’ve had positive experiences with lactoferrin supplementation, and decided to give the enteric version a shot.

My personal experimentation with regular lactoferrin has resulted in better sleep, more frequent morning erections, and vivid dreams and recall, (a positive for me since I practice lucid dreaming). It also seems to have a strong anti-inflammatory effect for me. I’m particularly interested in the enteric coating to see what anti-inflammatory effects this might have on the small intestine. My wife has had issues with SIBO in the past and I was hypothesizing that perhaps a reduction in iron, (as lactoferrin is known to bind) especially in the small intestine might be a more holistic/environmental change dissuading bacterial colonization in the area vs antibiotics alone with no change in environment.

I bought enough to trial this for a few months, (the studies were 8weeks).

@lobotomize-me I’ve done a lot of public speaking in my life, and I stumbled upon this trick in high school when I tripped on my way to the podium to speak. The tripping scared me sufficiently to somehow relieve any anxiety I might have had about the speech. I gave one of the best presentations I’d ever given. Since then, I try to recreate the feeling my doing something to make myself vulnerable just prior to speaking. Tripping, or making fun of myself/making a joke specifically about me, somehow relieves some tension and then allows me to master my delivery and flow.

Maybe your warmup and your poor play at the beginning of the game are similar? They allow you to tap into inadequacy that then relieves the anxiety of “what if I play poorly?” You’ve already played poorly, so that anxiety has been fulfilled and now you can simply relax and concentrate on the mastery that you have beneath that.

What if you try to actively access this feeling in your warmup? It’s inconsequential to the game, and might allow you to start the game with that elevated sense of motivation that you get from being subbed out. Maybe wear a silly winter hat to the warm up, or tie your shoes together and trip, (though in your case you obviously don’t want to risk injury)? Is there a mascot? Maybe improv something where you’re the butt of a joke?

Embarrassment seems to be the key. It somehow resets the anxiety scale, (if you will) and allows the skill you have beneath the veneer of anxiety to come out.

@LetTheRedeemed interesting, I hadn’t considered this, but perhaps a little coconut oil in a sweetened drink could be more stabilizing. I tend to eat lower fat, (I’ve always had trouble digesting fat-I assume it’s gallbladder related, but in my 6 years of “Peating” I haven’t been able to figure it out). My family’s solid meals always have plenty of saturated fat though, (butter, tallow, dairy, coconut) but adding to a glucose drink is a great suggestion that I’ll try. I could mix plain coconut oil in my warm milk, but how do you mix it in OJ? Do you use MCT?

@jjk_learning no worries I didn’t take it as judgmental at all, (and as I’m sure you know, when the rubber meets the road all successful strategies are needed!).

I’ve become pretty good at sensing my children’s’ energetic needs, (it’s amazing since I changed my perspective on this 90+% of the parents I interact with starve their children STARVE them, and then force them into exhaustive exercise based activities, and wonder why little Johnny is such a naughty boy). I tend to front load activities now more than I react to tantrums. I know that it’s takes a great deal of energy for a three year old to walk from one end of the grocery store to the other, (but they don’t exactly communicate their energy needs do they?). So I keep gummies, and glucose tablets everywhere, (car, kitchen, grandparents house) and just make sure they’re topped up before a stressor. That said, yes, in a pinch it actually resolves tantrum behavior, (but a tantrum, I kid you not, is a sign you’re too late. You did not meet the child’s energy requirements).

I prefer glucose because it is fast acting. I know this from my own experiences. It stops negative behavior in its tracks. Glucose has taught me that all anti-social behavior is a function of low blood sugar. I am very convinced of this. I can’t help but think it’s why low carb diets are so pushed, (easier to divide and conquer the grumpy). Sugar has to be converted, and in a negative behavior situation, like I said, it’s already too late.

I don’t have any concerns about rewarding negative behavior for a few reasons. One, when we’re in a good place there’s no good and bad. With appropriate energy metabolism we act with honor and virtue, (we just do). So once they have glucose it only improves their entire biogenetic system. If they’re in a good place energetically there’s no logical incentive to waste energy on acting up to get more glucose. They use their energy productively toward joy and play. Not sure if that makes sense, but that’s been my experience. The other thing I notice is that when I find they “need” glucose, they’re more likely to refuse it, (stubborn behavior indicating that they have low blood sugar). I keep the glucose items in high places so they can’t self dose, but I have a sneaking suspicion that if I let them, they would just magically do so appropriately.

Ever since I found Ray’s work and applied it to parenting I knew that blood sugar was the reason for any misbehavior from a child, (and I see it everywhere). The next time a child that isn’t yours acts up see if you can’t find out when and what they last ate, (I mean don’t pry). If you’re aware of these factors you will find a child that has just been feed PUFA, or hasn’t been fed at all. Glucose will turn them around in an instant. I’ve seen it too many times to believe otherwise.

Oh, and this applies to children from 1-250 year of age, lol.

I’m still using glucose, but not therapeutically. I think it’s incredible though as a tool against stress. I use two scoops in warm milk in the morning to refill glycogen stores after sleep. I use two scoops post workout in a drink for the same purpose, (also intra workout). Lastly if I feel as though my frustration is rising, I use it as needed, (less and less frequently because it has leveled up my resilience to stress).

In addition, I use it to sweeten the homemade jello/gummies I make for my kids. Nothing ends up blood sugar induced “tantrum” like these. After 6 years as a parent of two, I can safely say all tantrums are low blood sugar. Well fed children with good glycogen stores simply do not misbehave, (seriously, never).

@jet9 16oz warm/hot milk, with two tablespoons of honey, or four tablespoons of dextrose, (dextrose if the stress state is worse, honey if less so).

@Serotoninskeptic I could be crazy, but I wonder if the benefit is just related to the Randle Cycle? Like think about it, the diet is zero fat til dinner. Maybe just staying in carb burning mode, and not lypolisis all day is the key vs protein fasting. I know there’s a lot of research around protein restriction and its health benefits, but as far as weight loss is concerned, eating predominantly carbs, and fasting from fat all day and not alternating back and forth between lypolisis and oxidative phosphorylation is probably more efficient?

@nothingclever it did for me too, and I started using what has to be a 64th of a teaspoon, (maybe less). Just a slight dusting. No rash anymore for me

@nothingclever I use some organic vodka on on old hand towel and sprinkle a small amount of baking soda where the towel is wet with the vodka and wipe that paste/solution into my armpit. Works great all day.

@gg12 nah, not me

@William-Shat in my personal experience: Pregnenalone, 50mg before interaction

@zaaku

A few questions:

• Did you work your way up to 1200mg/day?
• How much sugar?
• Did you make any changes to your diet during this time?
• Did you use any other supplements? B1, K2, magnesium, aspirin, thyroid, etc?
• After the two weeks, do you stop caffeine completely or settle at a baseline?
• Did you lose or gain any weight during this time?

I worked my way up over a few days, about 600 the first day, then 1000, then 1200. I noticed a blood sugar crash the first day at 1200 and ate a bunch of white rice til I felt better.

Sugar doesn’t seem to be a great fuel source for me. I like potatoes, white rice, occasional sourdough, and dextrose. I eat fruit, but it’s not my predominant carb.

Only dietary changes were adding more white rice at meals, (everything else stayed the same)

I’m always experimenting with various Peat substances, but so few of them seem to have any effect on me. During the most recent 2 week run I wasn’t doing anything else at all.

The first time I stopped caffeine completely, the second time I tried staying on at a lower level, (but eventually the lower level for longer term seemed to cause acid reflux, so I stopped).

The first time I lost 20lbs and I thought it was from the caffeine, (it happened in the months follow the experiment) but I recently did the two weeks again and experienced zero weight loss. Its possible that b vitamin supplementation at the time of the first experiment was actually responsible for the weight loss.

@zaaku on the old forum @haidut had a thread where he mentioned using caffeine to clean out the liver. I myself used this method using 1200mg/day split into three doses of 400mg at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The effect on glycogen storage is unmistakable in my opinion. After two weeks at this level I’m able to tolerate black coffee on an empty stomach, (a test for glycogen storage) and I can go longer between meals without blood sugar issues.

When I feel my liver function needs a leg up, I do this again. I’ve done it twice, (once a year for the past two years).