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@mouse I didn't interpret his response as agreeing with the idea of a ‘steal’. Peatbot is pretty close, thanks @DavidPS

Ray Peat - From Pms To Menopause

“Many steroids have a protective ("catatoxic") action against a wide variety of poisons. Some of the quick effects (e.g., within 10 minutes) of progesterone and pregnenolone probably represent a
catatoxic action, as well as a neutralizing or balancing of excessive estrogen or cortisol. Improved metabolic efficiency, sparing oxygen and glucose, will have a quick effect in reducing edema.”

The question is do you have a clean source of pregnenolone?

Anyway, at the age of 25 do you need to be supplementing hormones? Dhea is particularly risky to supplement.

The Elite Strategy to Physically Ruin Our Brains, Minds, and Willpower

@DavidPS I have to admit peatbot is not too bad but you can’t beat the real thing!

@Luke said in Is being incel the "new normal" in 2024?:

To be an "incel" (how do modern people come up with all those fancy terms nowadays?),

This kind of thing is not new. Look up drapetomania

From the real Ray Peat

“For about 40 years, the agriculture department was listing lard as a saturated fat. So there are hundreds of publications on so-called saturated fat damage, and they were using lard as their saturated fat. Two or three years ago, it came out, someone measured lard saturation and found that it was about 30% PUFA.” Ray Peat

"The things that are high in phosphate have some of the overlapping effects with the inflammatory things. Calcium, if you have a high ratio of calcium to phosphate, calcium happens to suppress the fermentation of fiber and starch in the intestine. So high calcium intake will actually reduce the production of the endotoxin as well as reducing the consequences of your reaction to the endotoxin. The saturated fats, having some fat in your food does various things that can be helpful. There's a germicidal effect of the fatty acids that helps to keep the intestine sterile and you should be able to absorb your fat by roughly half to two-thirds of the way down your small intestine where it's still sterile. But if you eat fat with a fiber, the fat helps to suppress the bacteria and it can help the fiber persist and go all the way through your intestine. So it can turn what would be a harmful fiber-supporting endotoxin into a useful sort of a bowel-stimulating bulk former.” Ray Peat

“Again, in the 1970s, I was attracted to it by reading an article in which they had fed several groups, I think it was 15 groups of rats on different diets, including either a high-fat, saturated fat, a low-saturated fat diet, a very high polyunsaturated fat diet, and a very low-fat diet with only polyunsaturated, and so on, so that they had 15 different compositions, very high-fat, very low-fat, pure saturated, pure unsaturated. And at the end of their life, the leanest rats were the ones that ate the saturated coconut oil diet, regardless of whether it was high-fat or low-fat. And the fat animals were the ones that had the pure polyunsaturated fat. Again, even a low-fat diet, if it was purely polyunsaturated, made them the fattest animals. So it wasn't the quantity, it was the unsaturation. In the last several years, people have started talking about the saturation index, meaning the proportion of saturated fats to polyunsaturated in your tissues, and cancer patients are very low on the saturation index. So it's not only obesity-producing, it's associated with high incidence of cancer to have highly polyunsaturated fat diet.” Ray Peat

Peatarian Email Depository (archive version)

Dr Peat responding to the Pregnenolone 'Steal' Theory

Whoever is messing with your coffee needs to stop

@AkJono said in New "Mission" of RPF:

@Peatly
The movie "The Constant Gardener" .... .
After I saw that movie I thought "how long until they start this pharm-op on the West?". That was besides fluoride, radiated food, cancer causing pesticides/herbicides and of course just high yield/poor nutrition grains and produce. Anyhow, we will survive and thrive. Just gotta live it. Ciao.

It’s funny how we compartmentalise things. When I saw that film I didn’t even consider that such experiments were not a one way street – rich nations exploiting poorer ones. Even though I knew that psychiatry in the West was being weapoinised against certain groups, I managed to forget that there is mass experimentation, documented, going on all over the western world. SSRI’s on young people, radiation poisoning on mass, etc. I could list many ways in which everyone everywhere is now a lab rat.

Case in point

Much of Britain was exposed to bacteria sprayed in secret trials

Millions were in germ war tests

@Mulloch94 You are right salt restriction is not necessarily helpful for lowering BP. My question was specific to the situation Peat was talking about when estrogen is high. When he said ‘at first sodium falls’ made me wonder if later on sodium becomes harmful because it is being retained. Anyway, I tend to get the minimum required to restrain aldosterone, which is around 2000mg of sodium (a teaspoon of salt). I do use progest E but it has since stopped making a difference. I have a feeling that Dr. Peat would say we were not getting enough salt.

@DavidPS you have good BP. I can’t believe anyone would want to medicate such low numbers

@Mulloch94 Thank you. I've noticed increase fluid retention which I think might be related to the potassium/sodium ratio. Frankly, I'm never comfortable throwing salt at problems - I can't manage more than one teaspoon a day. Will increase potassium and see what happens.

I'm not suggesting you have this condition but thiamine might help you

Acute hearing and visual loss caused by thiamine deficiency

This article might be relevant too. Mitochondrial dysfunction is common following flu like illnesses.

Thiamine Deficiency Amid a Constellation of Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disorders

@Mulloch94 Excellent

I was looking through my notes and came across this quote about the role of estrogen in blood pressure issues. It’s from an interview called Estrogen vs Progesterone.

The Role Of Estrogen in Blood Pressure Issues

Extract from interview

00:48:33.880 “And the more acute effects of estrogen dominance in the brain can include chorea, sort of uncontrolled, unexpected movements of the arms and legs and such, and epilepsy or seizures are promoted by estrogen. Water retention is really the first action of estrogen on the cell. In exciting it causes it to take up water. Anything that if you block the oxygen delivery to a cell, it'll take up water, too. So the excitation moves the cell's requirements to a level that can't be sustained so the oxygen becomes deficient. It takes up water and shifts its pH and electrical charge. And that same shift of water into the cell makes the walls of the blood vessels leaky to water. And so the water shifts, letting sodium and water both go into the tissues, causing the feet to swell up while you're standing up or during the night your face will share the water burden. The estrogen, that immediate water logging effect, can be compensated by the adrenal, the cortex, and the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone effect, which is to try to compensate for that leakiness by increasing the sodium retention in the kidney. At first, sodium falls in the estrogen dominance as it goes out of the bloodstream into the tissue, but then activating this blood pressure regulating system, you can shift from low blood pressure and swollen feet to high blood pressure and all of the stress-related cortisol-dominant syndrome. Even at an extreme, you can get gangrene constriction of the blood vessels of the extremities and the calcification of soft tissues that the old endocrine textbooks used to mention. That was another thing that Hans Selye investigated in great depth. He called it calciflaxis and calcirgy, in which the excited blood vessels first constrict and load up on calcium. Estrogen releasing histamine and serotonin precedes that, but calcification and then these injured areas tend to load up with iron in most cases, and the iron increases the breakdown-free radical production in these tissues. So, it can lead to such things as gangrene of the fingers and toes and scleroderma, hardening of the skin in various areas that are stressed. I've seen people recover in just a couple of weeks from scleroderma when they stopped using an estrogen supplement............

And progesterone and thyroid are the things that give you the basic long-term protection.” Ray Peat

Question @Mulloch94 - Dr Peat says "at first sodium falls." As the condition progresses does adding extra salt become helpful or harmful?

I'm going to listen to the full interview again

May he RIP and others like him.

A thread for solutions would be welcomed. Thank you @ThinPicking

@Tahodama said in Is being incel the "new normal" in 2024?:

@Peatly I am curious how much internet culture will bleed into real life as age demographics shift and old stock die off. Right now the most representation you get is fast food Twitter accounts posting viral ironic ifunny memes, or "Pokémon go to the polls"-tier politicians referencing something hip, at the suggestion of some media manager. Will this ever change? Will there be a point where a politician can talk casually about what video games they played, or what community they frequented, or will it always appear to be neutered and performive? Many factors at play when answering that question (the social hazards of most internet culture being just one example). I don't think incel or other "loner/loser" culture will be referenced by huge voices, unless it were in derision by some embittered communist feminist.

The more people become disillusioned with MSM the more they gravitate toward alternatives on the internet. With the exception of those who use social media for business, the allure might diminish faster than older mediums did (fashion and gossip magazines for instance). People will still gravitate towards it, social media, during times of crisis but once the medium is completely controlled and manipulated by TPTB people will start to mistrust it. Perhaps, they won’t withdrawal entirely instead invent more intelligent, decentralised, ways to interact and navigate the social media terrain.

Politics will always be performative because it, and the politicians, are inherently corrupt. They have to be or else they wouldn’t be given a platform.

The voices of what you call “embittered communist feminist” are probably amplified by those who want us engaged in culture wars so we don’t notice they are robbing us dry. Why punch up when you can punch down? As for incels - the term is being weaponised and like other weaponised terms there is a shelf life.

It is also possible that I don’t have a clue because I am not a big fan of social media so I am hardly the best person to forecast its future.

@C-Mex said in New "Mission" of RPF:

Just looking at this list of publications by the Iris group ought to alarm anybody. Imagine a whole quasi-academic world network built to convince you of the 'truth' using whatever means possible. I'm never getting near another vaccine in my life. After that, take a look at the 'qualifications' of the staff.

https://www.irisacademic.org/publications/

I wouldn’t worry too much about this. Social science has been involved with this kind of “research” in places far away (insert any ‘third world’ country). The Larson woman, for example, is a vaccine anthropologist (yes, that’s right, vaccine anthropologist). Long before covid she was doing vaccine hesitancy work in West Africa.

From Larson’s wiki page

“In a paper published in February 2021, Larson acknowledged extensive collaboration with, advisory board membership of, and funding from, vaccine manufacturers, especially the pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline and Merck & Co. Inc.[16] She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2021.[17]”

No conflict of interest, nothing to see here

Vaccine anthropologists at work

What makes vaccine social?

They used to do this stuff abroad (and still do) now they are applying their ‘research findings’ at home too. It’s nothing new. Eugenics for all – hurrah to equality!!

On a serious note - what are we meant to do? Cower away and hide? There is truth and there are lies. The truth is that vaccines harm. They harm a lot more than we are lead to believe. If the vaccine anthropologists need a research topic I suggest VigiAccess data for vaccine injury report or are they going to bury that data too? They already deleted evidence that the Covid vaccines had entries in vigiaccess as far back as 2015 – luckily screenshots were saved.

Don't stress too much at this - nothing new is happening other than they are bringing the research home. But, we are onto them and they know it.

@Tahodama said in Is being incel the "new normal" in 2024?:

@Peatly This is true. While its frequency depends on the demographic you interact with, such as college-age women vs. middle-age rural Americans, I myself have only heard its use a couple times in my life.

There's one problem, however: The internet is more important than real life.

Sadly, you might be right (for the young anyway). This will change

I start this thread in anticipation of the release of a new film about the midazolam murders.

The film, Playing God, will be screening from April 22nd on UK Column and Children’s Health Defense.

Jacqui Deevoy talking about the film – including the trailer

Final phase crowdfunding here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/playing-god-final-phase

Film Website: playinggod.uk

A Broda Barnes' quote on the role of thyroid in hypertension

Hypertension (high blood pressure) is closely related to kidney function. Goldblatt 30 produced fatal hypertension in dogs many years ago by placing on the kidney artery a simple metal clamp that could be tightened periodically to restrict the flow of blood through the kidney. In hypothyroidism there is a reduction in blood-flow through all the organs including the kidneys. Atherosclerosis in the kidney artery could further reduce the blood flow as effectively as Goldblatt's clamp. Hypertension is very common in hypothyroidism. Rarnes3l has recently reported that thyroid therapy alone was found to relieve 80 percent of the elevated blood pressures seen in a general practice during the past 25 years. Children from patients with hypertension have been found low in thyroid function, and thyroid therapy in the offspring with hypertension has been quite efficacious.

The observations of Andersen leave little doubt that thyroid deficiency can be a potent factor in the genesis of atherosclerosis and hypertension in children. Obviously, if prevention is to be achieved, one must look continually for hypothyroid symptoms from the time of birth. The earlier a diagnosis of hypothyroidism can be made and appropriate therapy started, the better will be the chances of avoiding a premature death from a heart attack. Solved the Riddle of Heart Attacks by Broda Otto Barnes, 1976. Pg. 24-25

@Mulloch94 You are correct, high dose thiamine does deplete potassium, or at least increase the requirement. We are not short on potassium on a peaty diet so I don’t worry about it too much. Supplementing thiamine requires balancing with lots of other nutrients.

There are so many things that block oxidative metabolism. I think we can presume that someone with hypertension does have a thiamine deficiency. Even if thiamine deficiency is not the direct cause of hypertension it should help along with other nutrients, for instance magnesium, which works in tandem with thiamine. Magnesium is a calcium channel blocker which lowers PTH unlike most pharmaceutical calcium channel blockers which raises PTH.

Magnesium and the parathyroid

Also pufa blocks or depletes thiamine. I learnt about this for the first time from mostlylurking. Frankly, I think injecting pufa into our diets is probably the greatest crime against humanity. Yes, I do believe there is a eugenics depopulation agenda at play. Sorry wrong thread.