Dandruff or scalp irritation? Try BLOO.
It is almost impossible to find things near me that don't have dioxides, stearates, microcellulose extracts, etc.
I've been tempted to run some tests to see whether supplements actually have the amount of material they say they do. When you've got five different add-ins, then I question how much of your product is actual product.
Nice thread, thanks for the references.
Everyone should read Price, not just N&PD but his other works as well. He really was such a passionate researcher- I don't think American dentistry has had a mind like his since he passed.
He has a good quote: "These activators have a role which, in some regards, might be compared to that of an ignition system of a gas engine in relation to the utilization of the fuel." Activators are vit K, A, and D.
Price noted a 4x increase in dental caries during winter and spring vs summer and fall. He attributed this to seasonal depletion of nutrients, especially Vit D which has been established since the 1930s to be heavily influential in the development of cavities.
I've never had serious dental issues but I will say that I've noticed a shift in my gums after consuming more K2. I see people all the time obsess with their teeth but pay almost no attention to their gums. The result is you get people with these nice ivory white veneers or hour-long "teeth strengthening" routines and their gums bleed every time they eat a sandwich with bread that's a little too crispy.
Absolutely. @Peatly shared one of Ray's comments on that matter but yes you absolutely can have a healthy conception, pregnancy, and birth after 40. It will be very important to have a good understanding of your minerals, heavy metals, and hormones, so blood test and a hair/nail mineral analysis are essential. @haidut has testing on the idealabs website.
Progesterone, thyroid, and good nutrition will be essential, not only for you, but for your partner as well. Men pass on an enormous amount of epigenetic conditioning to their offspring, whoever you have a child with should make sure to also test minerals and metals as well as hormones.
Wishing you the best
Yes, an "aldehyde treated protein" bonded canola oil. Certainly, loading cattle with aldehydes has no negative effects. Biohydrogenation is not a complete process, the encapsulation of oils comes along numerous feeding practices to raise n-3. So much wasted energy with fish meals and algae, I guess why not make nightmare canola.
What I find interesting is that there's no effect on milk yield, when high PUFA typically reduces milk production. I can't access the study, but I'd like to see more.
Coconut oil promotes fat oxidative stability by reducing the portion of PUFA and increasing alpha-tocopherol and causes the least weight-gain in cattle.
He's probably got some high policosanol rum as well in Cuba.
Human breast milk can be similarly changed. The intake of saturated fats and unsaturated fat can have significant effects on breast milk composition. I believe there is a circulating graph showing the shift in PUFA composition in US breast milk over the last few decades. No surprise, it shows a substantial increase in polyunsaturated fatty acids.
If Mark Twain is any indication, then PUFA has been slowly but surely put on the US population for over 160 years, with much of the institutional efforts coming in the last 50 years or so.
I personally have not seen convincing evidence that aspirin would delay a shoulder injury repair. Aspirin has been shown to protect against excessive inflammation and scar formation in tendon repair.
Dancing is S tier activity. Best of luck on your smooth moves.
Kpop music and the industry are truly something.
Zamenhof's studies are essential reading.
Gelatin is good, but you want to make sure that you get a full-spectrum of collagen. There are several different types. If you can, go to a local butcher and ask for a scapula and/or lamb/chicken necks. These will give you full spectrum collagen.
No need to do large doses of aspirin. 325mg a day with adequate K2(1mg per 325mg) should be enough. You should consider larger doses of K2 around 5-10mg to assist with healing. Vit E as well, I typically do 100IU daily, at minimum.
Effects from mRNA vaccine are likely related to spike protein effects. Spike Protein(and related inflammations) cause significant effects on cytochrome c oxidase and spike protein binds to ACE2 to enter cells and activate platelets-this is why spike protein can create fibrinogen-resistant blood clots.
You can help to restore cytochrome c oxidase with copper(oysters and shrimp, supplements can be iffy), L-carnitine manages ACE2 expression, caffeine boosts CytoC activity, near infra-red light goes back and forth on its effect on cytochrome c seems to be fine though and has other benefits. Talk to your doc about getting a USP pure aspirin or a minimal additive aspirin and taking daily with at least 2mg Vit K2.
Do you know if you have a MTHFR mutation?
Look into a blood test for homocysteine levels- elevated homocysteine is related to negative outcomes of spike protein. Homocysteine levels are typically elevated due to vitamin deficiency of B6, B12, or folate.
Anxiety, heart palpitations, sudden dizziness, digestive issues....
Each of these can be a result of elevated serotonin and histamine via severe gut dysbiosis. There is evidence to suggest the role of severe gut dysbiosis in post-vaccine syndrome and Long COVID. You might consider nuking your gut microbiome and replenishing with fermented dairy. For sure, daily carrot salad and weekly activated charcoal.
Consider talking to your doctor about cyproheptadine. Histamine accelerates spike protein binding to ACE2 and is elevated after spike protein exposure. You may consider looking into a histamine intolerance. Cypro is an antihistamine and antiserotonin.
I have read the Dalton studies and I'm not particularly impressed by the statistics involved and I've not seen a convincing mechanism for how progesterone raises intelligence.
That being said, I believe that progesterone is indispensable for protecting the developing brain(especially in 3rd trimester when the brain begins to accumulate omega-3s), facilitating cell differentiation, and protecting the developing fetus from endotoxin exposures. I would add that the personality observations of progesterone babies is probably valid. Progesterone, by itself, may not raise IQ but it will protect from lowered IQ.
There was a guy on the RPF whose wife took 100mg progesterone daily mixed with tocopherols, and 1 grain of thyroid. He stated that the progesterone and thyroid child was particularly outgoing, thoughtful, and energetic, in contrast to their older siblings. Normally, we expect a reverse trend.
This is unsurprising, given the observed phenomenon of thyroid hormone on brain development. Allegedly, scientists in the 40s grafted additional thyroids onto tadpoles. In one case, the alleged effect on brain growth was so severe that it caused the cranium of the tadpole to shatter. I say "alleged" because I have looked high and low for the study in question(Rey, 1948), to no avail. I suspect it to be either fake or lost.
Either way, the human brain has evolved for tens of thousands of years to have access to iodine, selenium, omega-3, and exogenous thyroid hormone. Omega-3 is not a universal benefit-not a shock to anyone here-but the role of omega-3 in the developing brain(3rd trimester to ~2 years old) is seemingly undeniable and I would not deprive a young child of omega-3, specifically DHA. Omega-3 ratio in diet has a U-shaped effect wherein very low has negative effects and very high has similarly negative effects. A balanced Peaty diet with occasional seafoods and/or grass-fed beef should be more than enough in quantity and ratio. You might get fresh fish eggs and eat those raw, as a treat.
I suspect that 99% of this strange reply to me is the result of you mistaking me for a German or part of some "you guys" fascist group.
If you're interested in speaking to me, then don't waste my time. I am aware that I was massively paraphrasing Ray on nutrition vs talking politics- I have no interest in starting every conversation with the struggle against capital, especially when it more often than not proves a fruitless way of getting into nutrition, health, and quite frankly, the subject of capital itself. If you wish to take this route from the jump, that's fine, but I have done so several times and my starting with nutrition/health is derived from personal experience.
What I said about fascists wanting inferior people dead or sick is based on years of interaction with these people - ergo their own words. So it is very fair for me to exclude them here, that was the only purpose to that part of it.
I have no idea where in my reply you saw that I was arguing against your assessment of fascists. Perhaps, you have a reflex about anytime someone critiques leftists who they meet in their lives but I'm not interested in managing your reflexes. It's painfully clear that I am talking about "American leftists", as I said explicitly in my post, but I guess not explicitly enough. If you don't understand that an "American xyz" is an especially ignorant, emotional, moralistic, and reflexive version of most ideologies, then you don't understand Americans.
oh you're not German haha oopsie. well.
As I suspected, you took a reflexive response to me and as such wasted yours and my time. I don't fault you for it, despite my saying that I interact mostly with Americans, live in the US, and explicitly stating "American leftists." I ask that you don't take such a reflexive and condescending tone with me, now and in the future.
I live in the US and interact mostly with Americans. I would say that <3% have a serious, non-academically structured approach to nutrition. If you've ever downloaded and read a pop nutrition book, without it being for a class or physician-pushed dietary shift, then you're in a tiny minority(<10% of Americans). If you've downloaded and read a nutrition book that wasn't a pop nutrition book or for class or doctor diet, then you're an even tinier minority(<3%). If you're going to talk about nutrition, assume that the person you're speaking to knows no terminology, no chemistry, no historical literature, and certainly, no credulity about what you say. Beyond "do you have a peer-reviewed study?" most people take any printed word as 10x more legitimate than anything said out loud. Now, that is not to say that people will actually read that printed word and assess it's quality- many Americans "read" but do not read.
That being said, you also have to account for your audience. I find that conservatives are much easier to talk bioenergetics with due to pre-existing enjoyments of meat and skepticism about pharma/mainstream science. Milktoast liberals are open to discussions but will demand citations and will pester you with "I read a plant-based book written by a doctor, what do you think about it? Have you heard about Blue Zones?" More often that not, their questions are sincere and an answer that addresses the question clearly and fully will get you a positive response.
Leftists are often the most resistant to bioenergetic nutrition because you have to talk about the differences btwn animal and plant nutrition, which immediately gets walled-off with environmental and moral concerns. I rarely get a leftist argue against animal-based or bioenergetic diets on scientific grounds, but almost always get the response "cows cause climate change, you are killing the planet" or "I am plant-based because I don't like hurting animals." Leftists seek to make issues of nutrition and science into moral issues, without leniency on who's morality we're using. This is why I think Ray said he focused on nutrition, rather than politics because the radical movements are incapable of working together.
I would add that many American leftists crave a sense of moral worth, mostly because they are besieged by anti-Human propaganda. They can derive no positive moral feelings from being Human and alive, so they shift their moral feelings towards the animal, the plant, and the inanimate. Humanity and human institutions become lightning rods for a hodgepodge of apathy, (un)controlled outbursts, and catharsis. I think to how many leftists in my life were going to anti-police protests every single day for an entire summer and are now constantly complaining that "nothing has changed, we accomplished nothing, come to our reading group and mutual aid meeting on Thursday plz."
I'm getting off topic. My top three steps for simplifying bioenergetic discussions are these:
Positive encouragement, positive encouragement, positive encouragement. Encouraging questions makes it easier to let ideas and themes seem more like the person is coming up with them, rather than you imposing questions and themes. People who feel like you're listening to them will volunteer information, open up about skepticisms, and ultimately make it easy to say "y'know, you were saying earlier that your dad had heart disease but was a really healthy guy and didn't eat much fat. That's actually a really good observation that others have had and it's kind of a crazy story about the situation behind that. Want to hear it?" Never impose information on someone, give them the opportunity to say "yes, I would like to know more."
Emphasize that a bioenergetic diet is tasty. When people see on a forum some long list of "approved" foods, they check out. The food is not a plate with taste and smell, but rather a list. This goes for bioenergetics and many other diets. Most people don't conjure a delicious chickpea tikka masala when they see "chickpeas," they think about some grainy shit from a can that they only buy when a roommate wants to make the worst hummus ever. This is why Danny and others emphasize having tasty food pictures on social media, as a major part of the Peat propaganda effort.
Do not expect to win someone over in one conversation. My biggest Peat pillings have happened when someone and myself run into each other at our bar hangout over the course of a few weeks. Most people know they are unhealthy, their families are unhealthy, and the future is unhealthy. If you seem sincere about health and you're not pushing products on them, then people can be very receptive.
As an aside, I don't like encouraging people to "stop stressing so much." This isn't good advice and it ignores that many people's stresses are outside of their control. I encourage people to take steps to improve their quality of life, quality of job, etc. but never "don't stress so much."
Lmao, of all things to see I've been mentioned about.
China has very poor dental hygiene infrastructure and high rates of periodontal disease and its risk factors. I ran some brief Google Scholar and Pubmed searches on relevant data and factors.
Many Chinese will never see a dentist more than once every few years, if that. China's dentist-population ratio was ~1:10,000 in 2016, now not much different. Many Chinese have a somewhat fatalistic view on teeth health- it's very normal for people to lose teeth, young or old. In the linked study, ~50% of Chinese thought oral disease was preventable, only ~50%.
Chinese oral hygiene is shocking low on things like flossing with <3% flossing daily, compared to Germans at ~25-45%.. The same study found that <3% of Chinese undergo scaling, which is the removal of hard plaque and tartar from the teeth- a big factor in periodontal disease. Another thing in that study is that there's very low rates of awareness about periodontal disease symptoms and risk factors. Only about ~20% of Chinese have awareness of risk factors and symptoms. Rinsing the mouth is also rare amongst Chinese and warm water rinsing is a primo way to prevent a lot of bad buildups and smells, in addition to being a simple treatment for small tonsil stones(which cause horrific ammonia breath).
Almost 2/3 of Chinese youth have gum bleeding, which indicates low levels of brushing, flossing, and a general low level of oral health.
Diet plays some role in it, but I would point to the prevalence of H. pylori infection in Chinese with ~45% of Chinese adults having an active H. pylori gastric infection. H. pylori is causal for bad breath. This is just H. pylori, there are many other smell-causing bacteria that are widely prevalent amongst those with poor dental hygiene.
Dietary intake of garlic and ginger, as well as other aromatics, has some role in the smell, but Chinese also have high rates of consuming fermented fish foods(of questionable quality) and seed oil consumption, neither of which can be a benefit to oral smell.
Bad breath is an indication of a low level of health. In recent months, I have noticed an uptick in people who have bad breath. Not an exponential increase or anything, but noticeable.
I've had some good results from bicarb intake. I noticed this after having Gerolsteiner for the first time- it has a pretty high bicarb content and I felt really good afterwards. From what I've seen about bicarb and bacteria, bicarb in fairly low concentrations can be a potent antagonist of pathogenic bacteria metabolism and boosts innate immunity effects against bacterial infections; it also boosts antibiotics(except for tetracyclines due to pH effects). This goes for respiratory and oral bacteria, which I have a personal desire to protect myself from.
I wouldn't say that I take it because it gives me some particular feeling, but that it's easy to incorporate into my routine and covers several bases.
OJ for the pre-sleep sugar, baking soda is there to help with inflammation and bacterial inhibition to avoid night time serotonin surge. I have a history of insomnia and difficulty sleeping, so dealing with serotonin around sleep time through sugar and salt has been a big help.
Baking soda is sodium bicarb, so I get the sodium, the sugar from OJ, and the inhibitions from the bicarb. My rough math is that my bicarb to OJ ratio is high for inhibition concentrations. I usually do a small glass(4-6 oz) with 1 tsp baking soda(lightly packed). That's about 7g bicarb in 6 oz, which would be 37g in 1L or ~600mmol/L. That's well above the minimum concentration for inhibition(23-182mmol/L) and about 20% less than a minimum bactericidal concentration. I'm not going for an antibacterial effect, inhibition is good enough for me especially as I have a pretty healthy gut microbiome.
One week update:
198 with no real change in diet or activity. I have started consuming the policosanols mixed with my vit e to make a bootleg version of haidut's tocovit. I haven't noticed any unique effects but I imagine that with time I might have some small added benefit.
I have gone out twice in the last seven days, both times I was unable to have a good excuse to not eat something or bring my own food. As an experiment, I added policosanols(100mg) to my going-out stack for PUFA and alcohol protection; I felt and saw a noticeably low level of intoxication and bloating. In fact, both mornings after I felt very hungry even when even the same moderate PUFA meals left me feeling full the next morning, previously.
For the record, my going-out stack is: digestive enzymes with ox bile, 200mcg Selenium, Berberine 1g, aspirin 650mg, K2 1mg, 6 grams glycine, Vit E 630IU, magnesium spray, Vit D 10000IU
As to athletic energy, I have felt an increase in endurance but I am not going to comment too much as I want to see after the full 8-weeks and avoid placebo-ing myself in week 1.
I don't have some new sensation of energy, etc. but even then I'm barely over 10% through my experiment.