Posts made by Kvirion

"Health is correlated to people’s socioeconomic status (SES) and lifestyle.[...] Lifestyle had significant positive effects on both physical and psychological health. In addition, lifestyle mediated the relationship between SES and health. This research is helpful in gaining a better understanding of the relationship and mediating mechanism between SES, lifestyle, and health. It is recommended that research with longitudinal design and comprehensive indicators be undertaken in the future."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6352250/

And there is a lot more research/books like this one...

"A wealth of research shows that how much of it we possess dramatically affects not only our happiness and wellbeing but also our physical health – and without sufficient status, we become more ill, and live shorter lives. It’s an unconscious obsession that drives the best and worst of us: our innovation, arts and civilisation as well as our murders, wars and genocides."
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58642436

@buckminster said in Airport Security Radiation Mitigation:

What are folks thoughts on the dangers of the full-body scanner? Do ya opt for a pat down? What have been your experiences?
[...]
What can be done to mitigate the harmful effects?

From (old) RPF
Inosine, niacinamide, aspirin, caffeine, thyroid, methylene blue, tocopherols, progesterone, DHEA, etc. are all known radioprotectors. Ideally, they should be taken both before and after radiation exposure. When I got dental X-rays, I took 1g inosine and 1g niacinamide 1h before and then the same dose 1h after the X-rays. But even doing only before/after would be beneficial and if I had to choose between the two, I would take those before exposure. ~Georgi Dinkov

@Grothendieck Hi, it looks pretty good, but in detail...

• Ray said that TSH should equal 1 or even be slightly less... therefore your is almost optimal
• you have Prolactin at 11 - desired value for men is about 5
• Cortisol looks good, cholesterol too

You can check your thyroid health (for comparison) also by measuring temperature and pulse https://www.functionalps.com/blog/2012/03/25/ray-peat-phd-on-thyroid-temperature-pulse-and-tsh/

BTW it's just my observation, not medical advice...

@jamsey Interesting one, thank you!

@Norwegian-Mugabe said in Why is the Ray Peat community so far right?:

I am on the top-right corner of the political spectrum.

Yeah, there are some people with extreme (dialectical, contextual, scientific) wisdom following the epistemic uncertainty principle and there are others with extremely strong (political) convictions...

And obviously, there are most of the people in between with a mix of both aforementioned attitudes.

@ah said in The Dental Care Thread:

GC Tooth Mousse

It sounds promising, but it contains a few disturbing ingredients like Silicon Dioxide, Titanium Dioxide, Guar Gum, and p-hydroxybenzoate.

"Silicon dioxide is basically powdered glass and easily injures the intestine." ~Haidut

@peatyourmeat said in Why is the Ray Peat community so far right?:

mostly because the radical left anarchist and hippie types who would have been into this got too into the transgender thing which forces them to the side of big medicine

Yep, they focus on smoke and mirrors...

@DKJoe said in Ordered Idealabs and now the police are after me:

The site is now down, does anyone know if Haiduts all good? Given recent events im getting a little worried someone's trying to shut him down.

Look OK to me.
All his sites i.e. http://haidut.me/ and http://www.idealabsdc.com/ are online at this moment.

He has been also active recently on X https://twitter.com/haidut/status/1758122576411279659

@PissBoy Just pretend that you thought that all the products were just innocent (innovative) cosmetics...

Unfortunately, for about two years there have been new laws to ban foreign supplements as much as possible and deny any private import... Big Brother is watching you...

@CO3 said in Why is the Ray Peat community so far right?:

They might believe the Jews or whoever are poisoning them, and you can redirect this and make them understand that it's the corporations that are poisoning everyone, and increase their political awareness this way.

Yes, it's pretty funny/scary, that it has been exactly (right-wing, corporate, WEF) neoliberals, who dismantled most of the social safety checks and safety nets. They also supported increased emigration to lower their labor cost, etc. However, they convinced the masses that the left was/is to blame for this...

@BioS said in Why is the Ray Peat community so far right?:

Interesting commentary. As you say, context dependence plays a very big role. Also, some amount of irreducible complexity that defies broad and sweeping solutions is inherent in all human systems.

Yep, therefore, I prefer to listen much more to evolutionary biologists (natural sciences) than to social ones.
Besides Miguel Delanda (Assemblage Theory) and Bruno Latour (Actor-Network Theory, RIP), which works are pretty decent, exploratory, and insightful

If social sciences hadn't devolved into meaningless noise we could have a much stronger empirical understanding of the best ways to organize human groups. The work of Weber comes to mind.

Amen

BTW the current neo-materialistic philosophical movement looks pretty interesting/promising...

@zawisza said in Why is the Ray Peat community so far right?:

I'm right wing so: I exclude sin and hideous; and embrace beauty, strength, and war against all that is evil. I exclude absolute equality and tabula rasa; and embrace hierarchy, blood and soil. I exclude tolerance of weakness and sickness; and embrace charity, virtue and selfless sacrifice.

We are living in a social ecosystem that needs checks and balances. Therefore, a whole (Gaussian) spectrum of political views is needed to keep the system healthy.

There is no (master) hierarchy, there are multiple hierarchies that intertwine with flat (or fractal) communal structures.

Rather than divide people into two classes, conquerors and victims, better to recognize that we all have two aspects, individually and collectively: exploitation and nurturing. ~normonics

“Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.” ― David Sloan Wilson, Edward O. Wilson

In our history systems worked best where there was a proper balance between adventurous entrepreneurs and unions, men and women, conquerors and caregivers...

@zawisza do you assume that you have a monopoly to define what is sin, what is beautiful, and what is not?

What about Stephen Hawking who was mentally very strong but physically ill, how can you categorize that?

As you see - things are highly context-dependent. Left and right are both hands of our society. Right prevails when there is a danger/fear. Left prevails when there is a need for a change/relaxation of something. We need both, neither is better.

BTW Evola's views are outdated and also biased.
Adam Smith invented capitalism to serve communities better and it was strongly connected to Christian morality.
Exploitative neoliberalism introduced by Milton Friedman postponed some wars but exploited and corrupted the system from the inside...

@buckminster Wise words... We are living in neoliberal or even techno-feudal times...

It may be that people think that the West is "left" because of the current Woke influence...

@saturnuscv It's unfortunate, that you got banned.

Our "Lion King" Charlie is getting more and more out of sanity...

@mostlylurking said in Dismantling Charlie's words and deeds on the "raypeat "forum and here:

It is galling to see Ray Peat's name used for such ridiculous drivel. Charlie needs to change the name of the forum.

Yes, definitely. Charli's attitude is all against Ray's in-depth, systemic, systematic, holistic, contextual wisdom and his respectful generous approach.

Are there any other RPF admins or influential members who have enough power to change this? Or are there any other means?

@Not_James_Bond and @Truth Can't agree more with you guys.
Charlie seems to be in deep trouble... and he's probably not aware of this...

But still sad to watch how RPF is becoming the opposite of what it was before...

Charlie's current behavior seems to indicate too much estrogen and too much serotonin, etc. "Low VA diet" failed him...

There can be a pantheistic god... Or maybe not...
A theistic god is rather just a fairytale to keep normies behaving in order (keep their heads down)...

@deadkaczynski If one wants almost Limitless experience it would be good to follow Ray's principles to the max, plus add Haidut's elixirs to the mix

One needs to be careful with Moda because it also raises Serotonin (see picture). Therefore, creating a Modafinil stack tailored to one condition/need would be good.

Example of my old stack: Modafinil + CBD; DHEA, B-vitamins, Zinc, Magnesium, DLPA/Tyrosine + BCAA, taurine + theanine, beta-alanine, collagen/gelatin, glutamine, and optionally inosine.