Posts made by Hearthfire

@revenant If you're gaining weight, you're not really in a caloric deficit. Very simple.

You are lying about the amount of calories you're eating.

Track them accurately.

The moment Ray Peat firmly took hold in my conciousness was on 4chan. I had heard his name here and there for a long time I guess, I just never looked into him. I saw someone post in a thread, probably a prepper thread in 2017/2018, about fish oil being bad, and he cited Ray Peat. I thought it was retarded and thought this Ray Peat guy must be an idiot, because fish oil is GREAT for you, but I was just coping because at the time I was taking fish oil and all the other bodybuilding bro supplements to max gains and didn't want to admit I was taking something that might be bad for me.

@Androsclerozat

Thyroid/metabolism doesn't change things nearly as much as people think as far as calories burned...Sorry, don't care what Ray said about it. There's a difference, but it's small. Bodybuilding community has irrefutably proved this. This is why so many Peaters are getting fat. They believed everything that was said about magically consuming 9000 calories and not gaining weight. Sorry, but you need to throw that out, because it was grossly exaggerated.

Everyone has different body composition (muscle and fat), activity levels, height, etc, This is why you calculate a TDEE, and then TEST it. Work out and diet for 2 weeks. Weigh yourself EVERY day. If your weight doesn't go down, adjust calorie intake a bit, test again. If your TDEE calculation was WAY off, you lied when inputting info.

Obese people are not incapable of losing weight because of thyroid function. That's a myth and an excuse they have latched onto, probably given to them by retarded doctors. They ABSOLUTELY can lose weight, they're just lazy and won't stop eating. Everyone can lose weight. There's not a single human on earth who is incapable of losing weight. Point one out to me.

This is an easily testable thing, you can confirm for yourself within a week or two (more time is usually better)

If you haven't done this, or deny that it works, you're either fat or already skinny and never needed to. Simple as.

@yerrag You've discarded something that's easily testable? And has been done by billions of people? lol, ok.

@Cezar4911

A couple sticks of butter.

@Cicero The skin is way more permeable than mainstream sources would have you believe. Most people are super clogged up with chemicals, dirt, and other junk.

@wester130 Just using google ol' white table sugar and honey.

I haven't done too much searching, but I doubt many people have done a long term attempt at applying sugar for regrowth and been consistent at it. The nature of it is just too messy for people to deal with.

This is the conversation Danny Roddy had with Ray Peat:

Danny Roddy: Okay, that makes sense. I read a few times, Kealey. I might be saying his name wrong. Adachi and a few of the other hair loss guys talk about how the hair follicle is extremely glucose-dependent and that it needs a source of glucose. Then a few other people say it's relatively independent of the circulation of glucose in the blood. They were thinking that the glycogen was part of that independence, but if the circulation is reduced from the low thyroid function and the oxygen supply is reduced, the hair follicle obviously suffers. That's where the oxidative stress and lipid peroxidation come in, really harming ... Go ahead.

Ray Peat: Yeah. All of the stresses tend to interfere with glucose oxidation. When you're stressed, you liberate free fatty acids as an energy source, but those poison the ability to oxidize oxygen, so it creates a local diabetes. Have you heard anything about whether diabetics have more baldness or less baldness?

Danny Roddy: I read that the insulin resistance, so-called, is related to baldness. Then somebody on one of my YouTube videos said that he had worked extensively with type 1 diabetics who were all using insulin, and he was like, "I've never noticed any of them being bald before." I don't know if that was accurate or not.

Ray Peat: I've been thinking that with a concentrated glucose solution, you could probably activate hair growth just by keeping your scalp moistened with glucose.

Danny Roddy: That's funny because people have emailed me that, asking if that was a viable therapy. I was like, "I have no idea. I don't know how that would work." It made me think of when you would say things like people use honey for scars and things like that. Go ahead.

Ray Peat: People are actually suggesting applying insulin topically to the skin, but that's a relatively much bigger molecule than glucose. I think there's a chance that either of those can get in, in a quantity that could help.

Danny Roddy: The insulin is helping by what? Stupid question but just supplying the hair follicle with glucose?

Ray Peat: With energy, yeah.

Dexstrose powder would probably be even better than sugar, as it's pure glucose right?

@LetTheRedeemed

That whole thing blew up right as I was trying to make an account for the first time, I had just been a reader for several years. Won't ever sign up now unless it changes hands to someone new. It's crazy the amount of damage that admin did in such a short amount of time to his own forum.

On the subject of sugar for hair growth, I'm experimenting with it. Anyone else? I'll probably alternate between honey/sugar just to cover bases.

@AinmBeo said in Reversal of hair loss in Mice with “sugar gel”:

And the shrill, hyper-religious, anti-Vitamin A rants from the admin are gone.

Hmm, yes I've noticed a lot of the vitamin A toxin spam is gone the past few weeks lol. Didn't he have a massive falling out with the vit A toxin cult leader? The euphoria phase is over I guess, he's probably out searching for the next health fad

@bio3nergetic EXACTLY. This is what I don't understand about these people.

Either your world view is the big bang and evolution, and everything was accidental, in which case it would make sense that there are loads of bad things for us even in food we can eat...

Or you believe there's a creator, a God, and that there needs to be a paradigm shift to the natural order of things, away from the manmade, artificial, chemical lifestyle, to what God intended.

It's crazy to me how these people, many who are so-called Christians, their worldview is completely programmed in them by atheistic science dogma worshippers, and from that worldview everything is evil and out to get us. I mean, seriously, believing milk that animals and humans were made to feed their babies is bad? That's so retarded I almost can't believe it's a real belief.

@LetTheRedeemed

I found this thread talking about it, from a podcast/conversation with Ray Peat and Danny Roddy titled
"Lost Conversations with Ray Peat #1: The Purpose of Hair, Luciferianism, and Obama as a CIA Creation​

https://raypeatforum.com/community/threads/did-ray-peat-just-recommended-topical-honey-for-hair.50151/

Looks like that episode has been nuked off the internet by the censors. Probably for that title and the discussion content.

@LetTheRedeemed

So where do we buy it? I'm assuming it's not the same as D-Ribose that's on Amazon?

Didn't Ray Peat say something about sugar might be beneficial topically for hair loss? I remember this being discussed recently, either here or about a thread that was on the old forum.

Utterly retarded, like most of Kurzgesagt's videos.

Exercise does contribute to weight loss, provably so. It's indisputable.

Weight loss all stems on if you are in a caloric deficit. Say you are eating a daily diet with a -500 calorie deficit, based on your TDEE.

Now lets say you work out in the gym + go for a walk/run, and this adds up to 2-3 hours of work. You would burn 300-500 calories, depending on intensity and heart rate.

This doesn't cause weight loss? RETARD.

Sleeping more? LOL
Have you never been on a training regimen for an extended period of time? The point is that you work out consistently, every day, with some rest days here and there. There's no possible way for your body to prevent the weight loss....

Anyone who denies that calorie deficit + working out = weight loss, is FAT.

@Androsclerozat Yes, but did he deny calories make you fat?

Whatever Ray Peat said doesn't change the reality that your body has a calorie amount (TDEE/maintenance level) that will keep you in equilibrium. If you go above you gain weight, if you go below you lose weight. It's easily observable scientific fact that you can test yourself, as millions and millions and millions of people have already done including myself.

I think the reason a lot of "Peaters" are fat is because they saw him make some outrageous statements about high caloric intake, and they automatically think that means calories are a myth as far as fat gain. I take what Peat said about eating 9000 calories or whatever it was with a huge grain of salt, short of dismissing it.

The man was not a god and everything he said should be questioned, unless this is a cult. I am smart enough to know that some of what he said may be inaccurate, while the bulk of it was probably fairly accurate or spot on. I'm not going to throw the baby out with the bathwater because I think one thing he said is questionable. No one gets everything right 100% of the time.

Find out your TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure)

https://www.calculator.net/tdee-calculator.html

Then start using MyFitnessPal to track your meals and eat at one of the calorie amounts it tells you you'll lose weight at.

Losing weight really is as simple as eating less calories than your TDEE.

Just eating a Ray Peat inspired diet is not going to do nothing if you're consistently eating 1000 calories over maintenance.

Also start exercising, walking, lifting, etc. Eat less move more and you'll lose a lot of weight. I've been through many bulk and cut cycles, it works, trust me.

@jamezb46 Got it. Thanks. So it would make more sense to buy some not in capsule form.

@jamezb46
Do you think MCT oil would work? And what about this, https://www.amazon.com/Now-Foods-Caprylic-600mg-Softgels/dp/B00KQ2L024

@Chud Yeah I like it, I kinda hate the RPF style of forum. This is better IMO.

Wait, I thought they wanted people to get healthy? This is about money?! I'm shocked!