Posts made by Insomniac

@yerrag It's a miracle you're alive with bp that high. At least your pulse pressure improved from 80 to 50 but your heart will have to enlarge if you don't bring it down.

@LucH I watched Sally Norton speak. She wrote a book on oxalates. I don't think she talked about food pairing or adding minerals, just oxalate avoidance.

It's good to have another take on the topic. I've started eating cheese with high oxalate foods.

Ty

@CrumblingCookie My pleasure

@CrumblingCookie said in Normal body temperature is now 97.9. "it’s rarely as high as 98.6 F":

Reminds me of another publication on breathing frequency I had seen recently. Nowadays the PR reference range starts at >12/minute and lower PRs are simply being ignored and deemed impossible. Whereas back 100 years ago or so the average was somewhere between 6-10/minute (vaguely remembered).
I reckon PR and temperature are probably not directly related with each other, though, i.e., low PR can present with low temps, too.

I had no idea about this. Really interesting. I'm not sure what it means. Thanks for posting.

The explanation that keeps coming up from mainstream sources is that dropping temps is from a cleaner environment and lower infection burden.

@jwayne said in What drugs and supplements help temper emotions for better decision making and clear thinking?:

@Insomniac Good sleep and digital detox. You want to discipline the reception of all the overly excited signals that excess estrogen/cortisol/low GABA will send. You do that by removing investment in the regular sources of brain burnout, like replacing time spent on screens with time spent with people and nature (e.g. plants, animals, the elements).

Permanent lifestyle changes are incredibly difficult but I know you're right and that trying things like digital detox make sense.

Most people have terrible sleep habits. When I work on my sleep habits I can increase my sleep time by 70-80%.

I never understood why pregnenolone doesn't substitute for progesterone since lots of it converts to progesterone.

@yerrag I've heard that even light activity has a large effect on glucose disposal and that's why being sedentary is such a large issue. But as one gets older with less muscle it becomes an even bigger issue since the muscle is the main place for glucose disposal.

But also to your point, exercise impacts the mitochondria.

Ray Peat once said something like he does squats every 10 years or something along those lines. He didn't believe in exercise without purpose. My sense was he didn't schedule regular fitness if there was nothing useful to do.

@Kvirion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4zU-zmvWnA

@TexugoDoMel I'm not clear on the timeline. Actually I'm not even sure when he gave the quote you posted.

He always mentioned 1% milk and orange juice. But I think he also liked cheese and he had a recipe for coconut oil ice cream. Honestly, he may have been changing things all the time over his life.

@Kvirion said in I remember Ray Peat saying he used to eat lowish carb. Does anyone know around what age he switched to favoring carbs/sugar?:

@Insomniac said in I remember Ray Peat saying he used to eat lowish carb. Does anyone know around what age he switched to favoring carbs/sugar?:

I always wonder if his last diet killed him or bought him some time. Out of nowhere he's talking about slowing aging and mtor

It may be hard to optimize for a healthspan (quality) and lifespan (adding years) simultaneously...
Especially if someone didn't start in perfect conditions...

so I assume he was trying to biohack with low protein and high carb but high carb is probably not great for a sedentary elderly man IMO..

I guess that manipulating mTOR can be a double-edged sword... In Ray's age, one small step too far i.e. out of balance could have been decisive...
Especially with all the PFAS, pesticides, and plastic everywhere... Plus a grim outlook for our world...

I think he may have figured this out. In one his last interviews with Patrick Timpone, Timpone said something like RP is off all the vegetables.

@yerrag said in I remember Ray Peat saying he used to eat lowish carb. Does anyone know around what age he switched to favoring carbs/sugar?:

@Insomniac said in I remember Ray Peat saying he used to eat lowish carb. Does anyone know around what age he switched to favoring carbs/sugar?:

@Serotoninskeptic said in [I remember Ray Peat saying he used to eat lowish carb. Does anyone know around what age he switched to favoring ca
I always wonder if his last diet killed him or bought him some time. Out of nowhere he's talking about slowing aging and mtor so I assume he was trying to biohack with low protein and high carb but high carb is probably not great for a sedentary elderly man imo..

depends on what kind of protein. less methionine less cysteine more glycine, favoring preservation rather than building of structure.

not sure if high carb isn't helpful with elderly people. my koi when mature eat less protein and more carb as too much protein ends up not utilized and end up as waste. nitrogenous waste such as ammonia and nitrates are stressful.

@yerrag There is really no way to say with confidence what's best to way to eat for any individual however I've come to the opinion that lots of activity like walking or gardening in the case of the elderly is very important for high carb diets . Europeans especially shouldn't carb load and then sit at a computer. It becomes a net negative although you mention positives. This is just my opinion but I've spent some time thinking about it.

@Serotoninskeptic said in I remember Ray Peat saying he used to eat lowish carb. Does anyone know around what age he switched to favoring carbs/sugar?:

@Insomniac Yea i remember him saying equal parts of each macro was good many years ago. Towards the end of his life i think he was more high carb/ low fat/low protein judging by the fact he limited his milk/egg consumption to only 50g protein and eas more plant based. I believe he said he ate 500g+ of carbs and sometimes 2k calories from orange juice alone

I always wonder if his last diet killed him or bought him some time. Out of nowhere he's talking about slowing aging and mtor so I assume he was trying to biohack with low protein and high carb but high carb is probably not great for a sedentary, elderly man.

@TexugoDoMel Thank you. That's the quote I remembered. I doubt I ever read he ate 50% calories as fat.

But 35 percent is just slightly less than a standard American diet. I remembered him talking about making food from coconut oil like he was at least experimenting with high saturated fat diets.

I think he was only low fat for a few years.

@Serotoninskeptic Those are good points. I think everyone can see his opinions evolved over the years and his supporters opinions get intertwined with his.

I could have sworn he said somewhere that 33:33:33 would be good macros or a it's something he told a supporter. 33 percent carbs is a low carb diet. Americans eat closer to 50 percent.

But a 50 percent fat (which I recall him saying he ate in the past) and high protein diet is closer to 25 percent carbs. It would be interesting if he spent most of his life eating more like that. A 25 percent carb diet would definitely qualify as low carb but not nearly keto.

Not long before he died he was interviewed by Danny Roddy who couldn't get RP to say how much fat was too much as long as it wasn't high pufa.

@LucH Is there any reason to avoid oxalates if it's eaten along with lots of calcium and sulfur to neutralize the oxalate?

Does anyone know about this or at what age he switched to favoring carbs and sugar?

I don't remember where I heard it or the context exactly.