Posts made by psi

@Ray-Van-Winkle try a blue light filter if you can't limit your screen usage after dark.

@yerrag I wanna finish this discussion on a positive note and wish you luck in finding machine elves and the transcendental object at the end of time

They wanna restrict egg consumption? Doesn't really matter as those are full of PUFA these days.

@yerrag I've already done that. It's great, but ultimately doesn't solve the main issue which is fear and apathy in most I meet and lack of funds to be more detached from the machine.

Listen to the beginning of the Danny's stream that Peatful posted in my digital culture thread. Ray says everyone being on a pension is gonna destroy savings giving authoritarians more control over the masses.

Pure glucose should be fine, but there aren't any scalable sources of that. Both acid and enzymatic processes to create glucose from starch leave too much contamination. Plus, the biggest issue with starch is not glucose, but its polymer particle size and shape allowing persobtion and creating endotoxin. Some also suggest mycotoxins in flour.

Fructose source is only honey, which is a lot more expensive than sucrose.

80g a day should be enough. You'll get cravings if you need more.

No reason to restrict protein if it has a low amount of methionine and tryptophan. Really hard to find good sources like that in practice

@thyroidchor27 waiting is tiring. Funny that BAP turned out to be a jewish professor.

6 hours of descent though monotone AI narration. I was surprised to find out that's how so many people discovered Peat. There's just one paragraph talking about hormones.

I was surprised to see a reference to Fomenko, and a theory that Japan is the same as Cuba. I guess he included it to avoid obvious suggestion that old history (which is half of the book, and the main focus) is exaggerated and manipulated. I find this kinda idealization of the past rather naive.

The final part is also interesting suggesting creating a gang and taking over criminal activity. That undermines civilization and generates money to make movies about bronze age heroes. That was strange cause I reached similar conclusions. However. Is that really the best we can do?

He's suggesting making friends as the main insight. Similar to Peat's suggestion to organize. BAP even suggests online friends which is low success rate. I found those obvious solutions to fail because most people are traumatized, scared, and lazy. Nonetheless, nothing better has been said.

@yerrag another thing is that loggers and miners continuously encroach onto the wilderness and there's no escape from the big machine even there. But setting that aside, what are the chances to win there? Disease and flies that eat your flesh build character, but I'd be foolish to say I'm eager to experience that. The wilderness is a big collection of suffering if things go south, and they always will. That being said, at some point I'll be so tired and humiliated that it will become attractive.

Here's good bits by Hancock

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tVFctzhK0xg

And McKenna

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IAGxjOr3vYA

They all reject reductionism, and their books sold well, but culture is still bad.

@Snow whole milk. When I'm inactive, I intake half to 3/4 of that.

I don't feel like I'm loading up on calories with sugar. It goes right through. 2 hours and it's processed. With protein or starch from pasta I get tired for a couple of hours.

I've been avoiding seed oils already but not pufa in general, so I'm metabolically healthy. Ray said he would go through 9k calories a day walking in the woods. FDA ancestor 100 years ago recommended 5k calories a day, and it was seen as more food means more nutrition. The obsession with calories is from physics conservation of energy laws that the nerds love. Sugar gluttony is a religious belief that's fairly recent. I'm not gaining any weight, and I only do a couple of hours of walking a day.

@yerrag I don't agree with calling those HIGHER realms. They're different, distorted. Ultimately we come back to "normal" senses, and though I have no regrets, I'm saddened to be in a world full of zombies/bugmen who have no aspirations to see something beautiful and strange.

I'm not sure if living in the jungle would work out for me. My body's too weak, and I lack support from tribes or proper funds to do it prepper style. Part of me thinks it's possible, but it's likely a delusion. So here I remain in the prison of this stage of civilization.

@yerrag spot on, the cactus is just the entrance. How deep you go and where you turn is up to you. What you take back may be chaotic. Steiner had access to just one thing, but you're lucky to have choice after a century of exploration. Usually people bring back a book. I have failed to do that unlike Terence McKenna or Graham Hancock, or Steiner and Huxley. I don't need to believe that they tell the truth, I know it, but it's not my preference to explore anymore. Perhaps I'll change my mind when I'm in the Amazon. It has to be vibrant enough physically to put me in the right mood.

@Jennifer thank you. I'll give it a try. I don't digest milk without fat well.

Sulfites. Metabisulfite, bisulfite. I noticed it added to dry fruits and gelatin (was really bummed about this one)

A gallon of milk with 1.5 lbs of sugar.

Sometimes fruits, gelatinous seafood, carrot.

I couldn't do average grocery store orange juice from unripe oranges. I don't tolerate oranges well in general. No problem with sugar and milk though.

The ideal Ray Peat diet is cherimoyas and gelatin, lobster and Italian cheese as he said in the back of a tiger interview. Milk and orange juice are least bad while economical. Orange juice instead of whole oranges cause Ray had an allergy to orange fiber.

Interview by Hamilton Morris. He explains the starting compound and reactions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6g18q-ksWk