Posts made by insufferable

Good info, thanks! I believe dehydroascorbic acid is more potent than ascorbic acid too?

I also feel best when I eat a lot of fat. Definitely trust your instincts on it.

@BroJonas I don't know much about the guy himself. I just noticed this phenomenon that happens when you pause him in mid-motion. Try it with the Ann Vo videos if you don't like Goatis, it happens with her too.

When you pause a video of a person, you'll usually catch them at a bad moment, looking weird.

I used to think this was just normal, but I've discovered that when you pause Goatis, his face almost always looks calm and normal. Goatis gives off a calm grounded vibe, while the vegans or bodybuilders that he's critiquing generally give a manic vibe in comparison. Just try pausing his videos, the person being critiqued will look strange and Goatis will usually look normal, at any given frame you happen to pause.

I notice this primal diet girl, Ann Vo, has the same grounded calm and inability to be paused at a bad moment that Goatis has. youtube.com/watch?v=PFIxzFzFu34

I think many people today are constantly flickering through manic micro-expressions and this makes the person come off as unstable, which is very unfortunate for socializing.

You could judge a lifestyle, diet, or mentality by whether it produces grounded calm, and this could be measured by pausing a video of the person to try to catch a bad moment!

@RealNeat Great info, thank you!

@BioEclectic Thanks for the tip about re-mineralizing.

@wester130 Not that I know of. I don't remember running across very many studies measuring DHT unfortunately. Although I would predict you could dig up enough studies to get a sense of DHT levels in the US in the past compared to currently.

what kind of mouse are you?

I'm not sure, but reverse osmosis apparently removes minerals from your water that you don't want to remove. I looked into water filters pretty deeply a little while ago and wrote my conclusions here: https://whatwaterfilter.com/perfect-water-filter-family/

From the labs, reviews, and company behavior, I think ProOne and ClearlyFiltered have the best countertop water filters. (they aren't reverse osmosis though)

@Crypt-Keeper I know what you mean, however average testosterone levels really have fallen, along with other markers of masculinization, if you believe the research. I did a research project on it a few years ago: https://bioenergetic.forum/topic/470/testosterone-worldwide?_=1722348624010

Some of it is just obesity pulling the average down. But I have also seen a study that says test has fallen independent of obesity. I haven't fully gone through the data myself to look into that.

@insufferable said in Defanging your computer:

So for twitter and youtube, I installed extensions to remove all the distracting stuff and make these sites intentional, so you have to type in what you want to see, before you see anything. Youtube and twitter both just display basically a blank screen on the homepage now.

The extensions I installed (on firefox) are "Unhook" for youtube and "Control Panel for Twitter." I also have "BlockTube" installed but I forget if it's doing anything right now or not (I tried it before I found Unhook) And of course I have AdBlock Plus running too.

Control Panel for Twitter stopped working. I use https://xcancel.com/ now, which is even better since you don't have to login to twitter.

I like free speech.

I think so.

It's freakish, not beautiful. The desire to get unnaturally big is a psychological problem, people still felt it was bizarre as late as the 2000's. Excess muscle is bad for fitness.

This goes for the 1940's steroid-free lifters too.

@insufferable said in Why are women today, the non fat ones, better looking than women back then?:

I don't think it's makeup, the generations really do look different. I don't know why.

I think I remember a study that identified how skull shapes (within the same ethnicity) are changing over the last 100 years, but I can't find it.

Just found something:
https://news.utk.edu/2012/05/30/american-heads-getting-larger/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27737575/

Skulls have gotten higher, narrower, longer, and larger apparently.

You can look at old pictures, compare them to modern ones, and you can see the narrower and longer change. I noticed it many years ago looking at old pictures.

I guess it's happening for the same reason people are getting taller, this is the same phenomenon happening to the skull. @Crimkadid on twitter talks about stuff like this a lot.

I don't think it's makeup, the generations really do look different. I don't know why.

I think I remember a study that identified how skull shapes (within the same ethnicity) are changing over the last 100 years, but I can't find it.

I read somewhere that 15 minutes of direct mid-day sunlight on a patch of fair skin will produce maximum vitamin D, more doesn't accomplish anything.

You can get hours of sun outside of tanning/burning hours though (10am-4pm during standard time, which is 11am-5pm during daylight savings time)

Very interesting, thank you for posting!

You've seen articles that testosterone has dropped over the decades in men.

I got interested in that and wanted to dig into it, so I did a research project which is linked here - https://bioenergetic.forum/topic/470/testosterone-worldwide?_=1717461794467

From what I've seen, it's probably in large part due to prenatal exposure to endocrine disruptors which cause lasting damage to the developing child. The lowered adult testosterone is just a part of the damage done.

But females are exposed to these same endocrine disruptors. What is the female equivalent of that "testosterone has dropped 200 ng/dl over the last 30 years" story? What lasting damage happened to females in the last few generations?

I've seen studies that say prenatal stress generally produces a lower testosterone male, but the picture is more complicated in a female - some more masculinization often and in a defective way, maybe like PCOS.

I hear PCOS incidence is rising. I'd like detailed stats on that but can't find them. I would like to chart its growth and map its prevalence on the world map, same as I've done for testosterone levels. I would hypothesize that PCOS is highest in pesticide sprayed regions, same as I tentatively found with male low testosterone.

Endocrine disruptors can harm the masculinization of the brain in males, what have they done in females?

@SummerPeach said in New "Mission" of RPF:

I wasn't a poster on the RP forum but a long time lurker and couldn't believe what I was seeing when I visited the forum recently. The whole thing reeks of a subversive and organised take over. People that are new to Ray Peat's work will visit the website and get caught up in the anti Vit A "low toxin" nonsense. They will see the RP admin rejecting coffee, dairy and orange juice. Seems like such a betrayal and it doesn't make sense to continue to call it the RP forum unless subversion is the goal.

How do they explain the good health of Danish people if Vit A is toxic? Danes are given leverpostei (liver pate) as toddlers and a lot of Danes eat it a few times a week, all their lives. Compared to citizens of other European countries, Danes seem strong and healthy with good hair, teeth and bone structure.

Interesting! Denmark is one of the few parts of Europe that has partly avoided the worldwide testosterone decline.

https://testosteronedecline.com/what-country-has-highest-testosterone/#northerneurope
(my website)

@HyperTorless said in Testosterone:

@insufferable Very interesting article.
It should be noted that the !Kung San are the only hunter-gatherers who had prediabetic range of glucose tolerance. It is most likely due to their unreasonable consumption of the mongongo nuts (sometimes 80% of their diet), which contains 40% linoleic acid, especially as the glucose tolerance test were conducted during the season where the mongongo fruits come ripe for consumption.
Surely the PUFA didn't help to ramp up testosterone.

Great info, thank you! I approved your comment on the site.