Posts made by Hearthfire

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!

Man, I remember reading RPF over the years and being blown away by how it was one of the only sources I could find for "alternative" approaches to health. Seemed like most health queries, even the most esoteric ones, people had already discussed it there. So it was an amazing repository of knowledge, of people who had already experimented with certain things and given their experience with it.

Such an incredible shame at the state it's in now.

I always think though, no platform or website is anything without its users. There's nothing special about the code there. It was the users that provided all the value. Any rinky dink coded site could be amazing with the right users and the knowledge base that accumulates there.

I agree the forum should lean more towards free speech absolutism as Brad is doing, but there's very obviously a lot of shitposting going on. How do you deal with that? Drown it out with higher quality posts I guess? I don't know, it's a very hard line to straddle if you want to keep free speech absolutism and not turn into a Charlie.

I did find that moderator making power moves very strange, even though I hate some of the shitposters around here.

Why is it that moderator positions always seems to get filled by people that abuse and over use their mod power? I guess the position is just attractive to people who want to do that.
Which is why I think those positions should be more vetted and given to people who DON'T want them.

@wester130 Niacin reduces inflammation and helps heal wounds. The flush is histamine release. It increases blood flow, which would logically be beneficial to hair growth. Have you ever taken it? I actually think the flush feels really good, and you have an extreme sense of well being and calmness after.

Would niacin be as effective? Tried to find out why niacinimide over niacin would be better, but couldn't find an answer. Some people seem to think niacin is better due to the blood circulation increase benefit.

1-2 hours of sun is a safe amount that'll get you 10-20k UI vitamin D.

Build up slowly if you haven't been getting sun recently to prevent burns. Maybe do one or two 30 minute sessions to begin, then try 1 hour.

I absolutely never sunscreen, I have believed for 20 years that it causes skin cancer rather than the sun, and recent things I've read support that. Low vitamin D is a bigger risk factor than not putting on suncreen, and suncreen blocks vitamin D. Backwards retarded logic to use it. I'm not going to slather chemicals on my skin that will heat up and absorb into my body.

@Norwegian-Mugabe Wikipedia editors will just delete it or add tons of disparaging sections to it to prevent people from ever listening to or reading anything Peat said. They'll call everything Peat did pseudoscience and that'll be it, anyone who reads his page will never give him another minute. Wikipedia exists to "educate" NPCs on what they are allowed to think and not think about. It is filtered through the worldview of hardcore leftist woke tard "science"/institution worshipping zealots.

@Benjo I had been reading the forum on and off for several years and was just about to make an account to be able to ask questions to help my dad out, and it was the exact week this crapshow unfolded. Registrations were blocked and I wasn't even able to read posts for a while as a non-member.

Glad I found this place.

@annis Good to hear, glad its working. I'll have to try the coconut oil.

@ilovethesea

That means it's working obviously!

@PissBoy Funny, I was using it for heartburn, and a few times I took a good amount before a workout and noticed how much better I felt. Energized, less fatigue, felt amazing. Only later learned about how it could enhance performance.

Baking soda truly is a top tier natural substance.

@User69 You only need a tiny, TINY amount, and you should leave it for a few minutes and then rub/wipe it off.

@Kilgore Seconding as a deodorant. It's INCREDIBLE. I haven't used toxic deodorants in over 5 years when I realized how bad they were. I had some kind of terrible reaction to them a few times, stopped using them, never used again. Discovered baking soda as a solution to the occasional odor after working out/sweating, but in general I don't get as smelly anymore. I think it's in large part to ceasing putting toxins on my skin in all forms. Lotions, sunscreen, deodorants, etc. That plus showering often enough and you really don't need it.

Another amazing use for baking soda is occasional heartburn. Didn't want to put all the ingredients in those antacids in me, don't know what they do, I assume they're toxic. Aluminum hydroxide doesn't sound good to put in the body. A teaspoon or so of baking soda knocks any heartburn right out.