Posts made by JulofEnoch

@Kilgore

They aren't watching them, that's the worst part of it. The biggest demographic for many streamers is "second monitor" viewers who open a stream, put it on their second monitor, and just listen to the streamer while doing other things. The result is you've got a streamer with 3k viewers but maybe 100 are actually paying attention. This is why I've seen streamers increasingly moving into podcast content(either as a separate gig or as a stream), because they're already podcasters for 95% of their audience.

@Kilgore

I've done K2 in baking soda, it gets carried away in the froth because the alternative is swallowing whatever shit you scraped off your teeth and tongue. I usually brush, then apply.

@Kilgore

The Destiny thing was hilarious, especially when he seemed to have spent what seemed like two years talking about how he wasn't really worried about her leaving him or whatever. I don't have time or energy for Twitch shit but my friends do so I got the details through them.

Interesting how many Hollywood people are in cults...

I understand why classical civilizations looked down on actors, musicians, and performers. They are often mentally weak people with little personal identity, they are constantly having to acquiesce and subordinate to others for the most marginal of roles, and the acting/performing world provides little spiritual nourishment. Hillsong, as bad as it may be, is probably one of the only places in Hollywood you can find people with a tiny shred of spirit.

@Kilgore

Interesting idea. Im taking K2 orally 10mg/day. But its worth a try doing it your way as well.

My method isn't based on anything special, just an intuitive thought that I turned into a practice.

Wow.

Yeah, it's messed up. When haidut talked about telling his child's daycare "absolutely no nut milk," I understood completely. I don't have kids but do some teaching and tutoring for youngsters so I show up in a few private schools for rich, progressive families and their school lunch menus are tofus, vegan meats, nut milks, vegan hummus platters, etc.

@Norwegian-Mugabe

That body belongs to Destiny, who recently went through a humiliating divorce from his hyper-sexual Swedish "wife" after their open marriage went exactly as expected and she fell into the arms of an abusive manipulative Swedish(?) femboy. Classic situation, one of and for the ages.

@Kilgore

Bieber and his wife's facial paralysis is likely due to their church using electrostimulation on their members. I remember sources close to the Biebers were talking about how Hillsong(and its weirdo offshoots) regularly talked about stimulating the brain for prayer, "talking to God", and mental health.

As you can imagine, the effects of a rando guy sticking electrodes on your scalp plus all the other drugs and medical interventions Bieber has done probably don't align with optimal health. Those stories and people are now scrubbed from the internet but iykyk.

@Kilgore

Not surprised at all. I went to my dentist about two months ago and she remarked at how good my teeth were in contrast to nearly everyone in my age group and younger. She's aware that I use K2 MK4 and have high dairy consumption. We've discussed Peaty ideas to a low level during previous visits.

The avg millennial and Gen Z has horrid oral hygiene and periodontal disease is rampant. She attributes it to "health apathy", poor diet, and vaping, in that order. "Health apathy" is where you have someone-usually a young person- who "just doesn't care about [their] health", "everything's going to shit anyway, what does it matter that I need a filling."

Vapes contain propylene glycol which breaks down into acetic and lactic acid(IIRC) and propionaldehyde(a soft tissue irritant). These damage the teeth and gums directly. She's also seen a relationship between high % nic and low % nic and dental disease. Not surprisingly, Gen Z have higher % nic vapes, vape more than others, and therefore, have worse teeth.

As to poor diet, she remarks that she's put a filling into at least one tooth a year for people who drink nut milks regularly. Her colleagues in pediatric dentistry consider it rare to have a child from a nut milk household with good teeth, especially if they were put on nut milks at a young age.

Another thing is that Gen Z doesn't chew their food-most people don't- but Gen Z seems especially accustomed to biting off big chunks, chewing just enough to get it down, and moving on from that- boys and girls. The result is their teeth are never put under serious mechanical stress to strengthen them and the gums. The hardest thing the avg Gen Z person will chew on regularly is a carrot dipped in ranch.

Mastic gum may help teeth straightening by providing a stimulus to have straight teeth; if you don't need straight teeth to transfer force from tooth to jaw without damage, then why would you straighten them? Sparse chewing, soft foods, lots of liquid calories removes the stimulus for strength and stability.

I take k2 m4(2mg daily) which I rub into my gums and move around with my tongue to cover my teeth. I consume milk, chew my food well, don't smoke, get vit D, and speak good words.

@Mauritio

Thank you, I was aware.

Howdy, I wanted to post this because it might be interesting. I will be conducting an 8-week personal trial with 25mg daily of policosanol(derived from sugarcane so ~60% by weight octosanol, if I'm correct). I will not be updating daily but will update on a regular basis and if there are significant noticed effects.

From my researches, policosanols are thermogenic, upregulate PPAR–α and PPAR-ß/δ, downregulate fat storage, and can significantly improve athletic performance regarding endurance. It's also worth noting(and will probably not be new to people here) that Vit E was originally extracted from wheat germ oil and was viscous due to the presence of very-long-chain fatty acids. A quotation, allegedly from Ray on this issue:

"But then in the last 10 or 15 years there have been more publications about ineffectiveness of vitamin E or possible adverse effects, and I've been thinking about what some of the changes from the original 1930s and 40s product might have been. And the saturated long-chain alcohols, octacosanol and policosanol were always associated with the original ways. They made vitamin E that increased the viscosity. Vitamin – or wheat germ oil was a common starting material and that was rich in these very long-chain completely saturated alcohols which immediately metabolized into long-chain saturated fatty acids. And if you look up the research on octacosanol and policosanol, you see that there was a lot of endurance effect, improved endurance from the use of small amounts of these. And I suspect that the original vitamin E research which showed that it protected against the polyunsaturated fatty acids and their toxic effects, I think a large part of that might have been from adding the completely saturated long fatty acids along with the vitamin E, sort of neutralizing the PUFA. Similar to Hans Selye’s research in which he showed that canola would cause the death of heart cells but if he added chocolate fat, cocoa butter to the same amount of canola, the heart had no injury at all so that the saturated fats have a defensive antitoxic effect that I suspect were a part of vitamin E’s original action."

I do not have means to do stool testing for bacteria but I will be tracking how my tummy feels to assess any shifts from policosanol on bacteria and gastrointestinal performance. To my knowledge, saturated fats are anti-microbial as they break down the cell wall and the longer the chain the better, as such I'm curious whether the policosanols will have any anti-microbial effects on my gut.

I do not expect much on this matter as I think the low dose of policosanol will be absorbed quickly through the lymphatic system due to the affinity for long-chain fatty acids to be taken up by the lymphatic system and transported to the fat tissue directly. It is this effect that @haidut comments on in Generative Energy 30 about policosanols being able to displace PUFA. I do not intend to deplete PUFA via 25mg a day but I am interested in seeing if there are any effects.

Some starting data:
Weight: 200 even(morning)
Fat %: ~25% from calipers
Last blood work: slightly elevated cholesterol(LDL and triglycerides), TSH of 1.28, no abnormal liver, kidney, or metabolic panels aside from cholesterol.
Supplements: Vit E(alpha-tocopherol @ ~500IU daily), K2 MK4(1mg daily), Epsom salt bath 2x weekly, baking soda(daily, 1 tsp before bed in OJ), glycine(3-6 grams every other day or so depending on workload)
Endurance and athletic ability: Jiu-jitsu 3x week, concentric-focused(ish) workouts 2x a week, walking ~3 miles a day. Sweaty after workouts but recover quickly, looking to improve high-output medium-duration endurance.

Howdy, I wanted to post this because it might be interesting. I will be conducting an 8-week personal trial with 25mg daily of policosanol(derived from sugarcane so ~60% by weight octosanol, if I'm correct). I will not be updating daily but will update on a regular basis and if there are significant noticed effects.

From my researches, policosanols are thermogenic, upregulate PPAR–α and PPAR-ß/δ, downregulate fat storage, and can significantly improve athletic performance regarding endurance. It's also worth noting(and will probably not be new to people here) that Vit E was originally extracted from wheat germ oil and was viscous due to the presence of very-long-chain fatty acids. A quotation, allegedly from Ray on this issue:

"But then in the last 10 or 15 years there have been more publications about ineffectiveness of vitamin E or possible adverse effects, and I've been thinking about what some of the changes from the original 1930s and 40s product might have been. And the saturated long-chain alcohols, octacosanol and policosanol were always associated with the original ways. They made vitamin E that increased the viscosity. Vitamin – or wheat germ oil was a common starting material and that was rich in these very long-chain completely saturated alcohols which immediately metabolized into long-chain saturated fatty acids. And if you look up the research on octacosanol and policosanol, you see that there was a lot of endurance effect, improved endurance from the use of small amounts of these. And I suspect that the original vitamin E research which showed that it protected against the polyunsaturated fatty acids and their toxic effects, I think a large part of that might have been from adding the completely saturated long fatty acids along with the vitamin E, sort of neutralizing the PUFA. Similar to Hans Selye’s research in which he showed that canola would cause the death of heart cells but if he added chocolate fat, cocoa butter to the same amount of canola, the heart had no injury at all so that the saturated fats have a defensive antitoxic effect that I suspect were a part of vitamin E’s original action."

I do not have means to do stool testing for bacteria but I will be tracking how my tummy feels to assess any shifts from policosanol on bacteria and gastrointestinal performance. To my knowledge, saturated fats are anti-microbial as they break down the cell wall and the longer the chain the better, as such I'm curious whether the policosanols will have any anti-microbial effects on my gut.

I do not expect much on this matter as I think the low dose of policosanol will be absorbed quickly through the lymphatic system due to the affinity for long-chain fatty acids to be taken up by the lymphatic system and transported to the fat tissue directly. It is this effect that @haidut comments on in Generative Energy 30 about policosanols being able to displace PUFA. I do not intend to deplete PUFA via 25mg a day but I am interested in seeing if there are any effects.

Some starting data:
Weight: 200 even(morning)
Fat %: ~25% from calipers
Last blood work: slightly elevated cholesterol(LDL and triglycerides), TSH of 1.28, no abnormal liver, kidney, or metabolic panels aside from cholesterol.
Supplements: Vit E(alpha-tocopherol @ ~500IU daily), K2 MK4(1mg daily), Epsom salt bath 2x weekly, baking soda(daily, 1 tsp before bed in OJ), glycine(3-6 grams every other day or so depending on workload)
Endurance and athletic ability: Jiu-jitsu 3x week, concentric-focused(ish) workouts 2x a week, walking ~3 miles a day. Sweaty after workouts but recover quickly, looking to improve high-output medium-duration endurance.

@brad

Have you heard of Violet Wands? They are Violet Ray technology but they are sold as a sex toy for stimulation. There are high frequency variants up to 500khz at 25-30kv output- equivalent to some Violet Rays. The wands are pretty cool and you can definitely feel the energy.

@CharlieLover123

Kosher Peating can be done minus shellfish- you could still eat small fish. Guidelines about separating milk and meat isn't really that much of an issue. Kosher regulations on certain cuts of meat(I've met Jews who do not eat flank steak or any cut from the back half) may be tough(no oxtails) but you can still eat bone marrow, the feet, and front half joints.

Halal Peating seems easy. My understanding(limited) of Quran and seafood is that seafoods, including shellfish, are allowable so long as they do not resemble a haram land animal to eat- sea snakes, alligators, crocodiles, fish that look like a dog/human are haram. I'd love to try camel or desert goat milk- i hear camel milk is very tasty and can be minerally.

@Lovesickhs18

Where did he say that?

@thyroidchor27

Thanks for sharing. It seems pretty well established that "organic" food products come with as many additives as conventional, at least in the US. Thankfully you can still find no-additive milks like Alexandre's A2 milk, but who knows how long that will last.

I saw, on sale, bagged evaporated and canned condensed Meyenberg goat milk at Walmart the other day, had additives but I got a few bags and cans, in the event of SHTF for infant formula trade.

@evan-hinkle

There is a study I will try to find later that assessed medications dissolved in Vit E and their accumulation in the brain after traumatic brain injury, IIRC.

Vit E significantly improved accumulation in the brain, Vit E itself accumulates in the brain and the liver(other places too, but these two are the most accumulating). This makes sense due to the sensitivity of each organ to lipid peroxidation, cell membrane disruption, etc.

@Regina

Franz Kafka had the same observation as Peat. He was involved in various “natural health” movements-Jungborn, in particular- and saw people go from pathologies of disease to pathologies of health: always stressing, torturing their body for some fleeting effect, going totally the wrong direction.

@TexugoDoMel

If she loves you, then she'll understand.

@araclavie said in Concentric only exercises:

@JulofEnoch Dang. I totally fell for that "Ray Peat recovered interview(July 1987 on UofO Student Radio)" link. Well played.

hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe

@Norwegian-Mugabe

Yes, barring specific positions.

@araclavie

Eur J Appl Physiol. 2012 Apr;112(4):1587-92. Epub 2011 Jul 14.
Similar increases in muscle size and strength in young men after training with maximal shortening or lengthening contractions when matched for total work.
Moore DR, Young M, Phillips SM.

"Training exclusively with eccentric (lengthening) contractions can result in greater muscular adaptations than training with concentric (shortening) contractions. We aimed to determine whether training-induced increases in muscle size and strength differed between muscles performing maximal lengthening (LC) or maximal shortening (SC) contractions when total external work is equivalent. Nine healthy young males completed a 9-week isokinetic (0.79 rad/s) resistance training program of the elbow flexors whereby they performed LC with one arm and an equivalent volume of total external work with the contralateral arm as SC. Training increased isometric peak torque for both LC (~10%) and SC (~20%) with no difference (P = 0.14) between conditions. There were also similar increases in isokinetic peak torque at both slow (0.79 rad/s) and fast (5.24 rad/s) shortening and lengthening peak torque for both LC (~8-10%) and SC (~9-20%). Training increased work per repetition similarly for both LC (~17%) and SC (~22%), in spite of ~40% greater work per repetition with LC. The increase in muscle cross-sectional area with training was also similar (P = 0.37) between LC (~6.5%) and SC (~4.6%). We conclude that increases in muscle size and strength with short-term unilateral resistance training are unrelated to muscle contraction type when matched for both exercise intensity (i.e. maximal contractions) and total external work."