Posts made by Kvirion

@urbrainonsugar
Question: is a strict adherence to a daily detailed protocol peaty?
What about Think. Perceive. Act?
Do you plan to adjust doses/schedule according to your conditions (external eg. the season, internal: amount of effort/stress. etc.) and also adapt the plan as you progress with your health...

Have you also considered a conditional way, i.e.: IF "I feel/do more of X" THEN "I will increase/decrease Y", etc.?

Have you considered having one (maybe random) day of a week a protocol-free day? Or just alternate different protocols?

@sphenoid Maybe he is thinking, that he's leading a holly crusade against VA... and he will save the whole of humanity and become a hero for eternity
Or it's all about money...
Or just a bunch of morons, who can't grasp anything beyond reductionistic scapegoating on VA...

@Hando-Jin Yep, can't agree more.
He also seems unable to grasp Ray's holistic/context-dependent scientific method...
Probably Charlie can only perceive reality as a black/white reductionistic dichotomy.

@The-First-One said in The Force:

The most talented men often are highly volatile. Their immense power can be used for good or bad. Training, discipline, sobriety.... Acquiring these attributes are just as important as honing their ferocious abilities into finely tuned instruments.

5. Rhythm: “Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates.”
6. Gender: “Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all planes.”
   ~The Kybalion

In other words, it's all about the proper balance between yin and yang...

How does Man fit into this equation? Many would be inclined to see Man as the most finely tuned creature to the Life Force

I would doubt it. Our current greedy civilization will soon collapse... mostly because of the lack of ability to think in systemic ways and long-term...

@brad Yep, Unfortunately, most normies are conditioned to be afraid/avoid everything outside the mainstream's narrow Overton Window...

Some say that people can even have a mental immune system for that https://www.prosocial.world/posts/bad-ideas-recruit-the-minds-immune-system-to-protect-themselves

From the simple statistical perspective, we have something like 85% of people unwilling to make bigger changes (usually, 70% can make small changes and 15% want no changes at all).
And there is a top 1% of the population who are radical change agents...

Usually, the ratio is like this:

• 1-15% of leaders and 85% normies/NPCs
• 1-15% of masters and 85% of slaves
• 1-15% of maximizers and 85% satisficers

BTW An effective way to convince a normie to change something may be to do it in a small step and ensure:

• room for a change - them having enough time and resources (energy/money) to execute
• proper opportunity - i.e. changing something will be easier/cheaper for them than staying the same and/or change will provide 10x results in comparison to standard
• related narrative - other (higher status) people talking and doing change too, because normies like to copy behaviors of others...

@Norwegian-Mugabe Can you explain? What do you base your assumptions/theses on?
Where did you get the teleological assumption that an ecosystem has a purpose?

(BTW Mine are based on the newest discoveries in evolutionary biology and neo-materialism theories...)

Our bodily complex adaptive ecosystem is interrelated to the broader social/biological ecosystems... It's a fractal relationship.
BTW you are probably talking about the continuity of a lineage - this is not in conflict with a conception of a body as an (embedded) ecosystem.

The ecosystem aims to continue itself, while the body aims to continue through others.

What about the strong anti-aging Transhumanist movement and Antinatalism then?

BTW have you heard about ecosystemic fractal scaling and multi-level selection, do you?

@Fructose said in philosophical reflection for today:

The main many adaptive changes occur on a multi-generational level through gene expression, which is clearly visible in northern peoples, who have a much better ability to store vitamin D and obtain resources from food

Yep, I would also add that (fractal) evolution may also occur on different group levels. Moreover, also on the epigenetic and cultural level. I.e. we may have three layers/levels of evolution:

1. genetic
2. epigenetic
3. environmental/cultural
   And all of them are entangled in multiple relationships...

@Fructose Agreed, body defined as a machine is a deprecated reductionistic concept, but unfortunately still often used at least partially...

BTW A more adequate descriptor for our bodies can be also ecosystem, which we can carefully modulate.

@pilky Check your thyroid hormone levels. Morning and evening cortisol too...

Do you know what is your body temperature when you wake up? Should be about 36,5 C or 97.8 F
And after breakfast, it should rise to about 37 C or 98.6 F
And pulse rate between 75-85 beats per minute (BPM).

https://www.functionalps.com/blog/2012/11/19/temperature-and-pulse-basics-monthly-log/

BTW Interesting reading https://justtakeabite.com/2020/01/06/why-we-stopped-vitamin-a-detox-diet/

@Fructose Nice find, thanks!

I've just added some more taurine to my orange juice

@GreekDemiGod Yep, Ray was also about mixing sugar with proteins, when honey/fruits are not available. What's wrong with that if it's done in appropriate ratios and amounts?

White sugar is half glucose and half fructose, nothing wrong with that if used in the right context.

@TurkishPeater I do. In small/reasonable doses.

BTW https://biochemnordic.com/ray-peat-diet-chocolate/ - written by Ray followers

However, there are some concerns about iron, some heavy metals, and some polyphenols in cacao...

Ray himself wrote that cocoa butter is good https://raypeat.com/articles/nutrition/oils-in-context.shtml

Haidut: "Cocoa should be OK even in higher amounts provided there is no heavy metal contamination. The latter is hard to ascertain unless one has access to a lab that can do the testing. The protein in cocoa is much more anabolic than casein or even meat protein so that alone makes a very useful dietary addition. Peat spoke about the anabolic effects of cocoa several times."

Willow bark (Aspirin) is anti-aging.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-03-youngand-alive.html

Also, collagen/gelatin may help too.

I guess that this is a sign that to understand and follow RP ideas one needs to study it deeply. And have an idea about the underlying philosophy (Heraclitus, etc.)...
Novices and fans of superficial approaches should stay away for their own good...

It's good to understand that things like vitamin A do not exist in isolation AND that their actions/effects depend on the context.

Therefore, no one can say that a vitamin is absolutely bad or good...

BTW Never mistake correlation with causation guys...

More about it https://bioenergetic.forum/topic/39/ray-approach-as-real-science/3?_=1706619254334

BTW There is a great interview with Ray about better sleep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ectFSs9nEcw

@paradox Well said, Ray was all about the good method and understanding the individual context.

@chudlord Exacly, to understand Ray, one must read most of his articles thoroughly. Moreover, to understand his philosophical approaches based on for example Heraclitus or William Blake

@newmexico Something for you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcEmSgbMfco

Happy you like it guys, be healthy.