Beef liver seemed to improve my erection quality from good to great and increased my libido. Probably because of steroid hormone effects. But I would not recommend it if you are hypothyroid because of vitamin A toxicity concerns. Measuring temperature can help to analyze that.

And yeah. Erections have the biological purpose of filling out a vagina. I think over time the brain just gets bored of pornography when there is no such connection. Make no mistake, it knows what's going on.

I think being obsessed with sexual function without considering the whole-body function can be a pathology in its own right. Ray Peat wrote about how hypersexuality is basically a response to what the body thinks is a death coming somewhat sooner, i.e., a tree struck with an axe will produce more pinecones, and girls under stress have earlier menarche. I think whatever you do to make progress will ultimately make you healthier in pretty much every way. Not just your device. Judging from your limited post history you seem like a somewhat unhealthy guy in general rather than having a specific penile mechanical problem. Nothing at all wrong with that, the only way to go is up.

@lobotomize-me It's hard for me to say since you have lots going on and seem to take things pretty intensely in whatever direction you choose, and I almost worry you'll overreact to whatever I say. I'm not nearly as intensely into the supplementation thing.

But yeah. Maybe get rid of ashwaganda. I'm not sure if that's something that has to be tapered in any way to avoid a discontinuation syndrome especially since you've been on it for a while.

Any kind of supplement which is dried plant matter (like the turmeric, which often contains lead anyways) I tend to be highly skeptical of. Some researcher finds that it increases some hormone for some length of time (on a toxic adaptation basis?) and people end up spilling tons of cash over it as a result. For instance a lot of the so-called "testosterone increasing" plants end up damaging the testicle function in the long run.

Your meticulous logging of food intake makes me think that you might not be eating to hunger or desire, but instead eating to a schedule. As far as I see it, over time that is basically guaranteed to cause imbalance, because your mental model of what you need is often deficient relative to the organ that produces that flawed mental model, and its real mechanism of desire. That, and your activity varies from day-to-day.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't see mention of thyroid status/temperature/pulse anywhere. This is very easy to check and can be a starting ground for other stuff. If your waking temperature is not 98.6F (or a bit higher) you are probably somewhat hypothyroid. For instance, I would not recommend eating beef liver for people with low thyroid. But if you were higher thyroid I might advise you to try some of that. Peat talks about how low thyroid makes you more vulnerable to vitamin A toxicity.

I also don't see much calcium in the intake. Maybe add some skim milk?

Very briefly:

1. Actually measure temperature to help rule out thyroid-type problems. Don't skip it.
2. Re-evaluate which supplements in your intake are mostly fluff. Make a plan for getting off of them if any kind of tapering is advisable. My personal orientation is to take in simple stuff and let the body machinery do most of the work of producing the necessary downstream products in the proper quantities that it detects as needed. But I'm Just Some Guy.
3. Listen to yourself more than online advice. There's probably no magic chemical you can buy that will instantly make you great at everything soccer related you want. But you can adopt mindsets that create systems that produce that outcome. Spamming all of the supplements you read about is apparently not fruitful anyways.

I can't help but feel that your huge list of systemic interventions, and ruminative (over)analysis, indicates a very serotoninergic disposition. It's so huge it makes me wonder if you are trolling, yet it is so incredibly specific it kind of feels that you are not. It almost feels like Bryan Johnson's Blueprint thing where you just throw a million interventions at the wall because you read 1-2 studies showing effectiveness without necessarily considering how it all interacts together. Talking about "PM" would also indicate that to me: it produces for you a temporary escape from the serotonin.

It is difficult for me to go through everything here. I have heard pretty bad things about Ashwaganda causing that kind of mind though.

I like the glucose water. Used to do something similar for sports.

@jd_au I tend to identify that hypothyroidism in/around the forums with people that are very melodramatic. They often latch onto various forms of obscurantist mysticism babble when this is exactly the mindset that Ray fought against through most of his work, which was materialistically informed.

The v sucks. And yet people will probably largely survive and deal. Maybe 10-20 years of life expectancy will be deleted due to more cancer.

A lot of us here are orthorexic (i.e. fragility mindset) so we lack a solid appreciation of just how tough the organism can be in the face of poison/stress/damage. Even including the ideologized genetic stuff. Ironically the right-wing concept that the v will instantly kill you through genetic incorporation is rooted in their genetic reductionism. If this does not turn out to be the case at scale then perhaps that view should be reexamined or at least complexified.

@Rah1woot Does anyone have a good read on how often beef liver should be eaten to control dandruff?

I have not had any dandruff in the days after consuming beef liver. But it does come back nearing the end of the week after a number of days without it. Is that a sign to increase the intake, or maybe that would cause toxicity problems?

Ray identified two paths for this kind of situation: go to sleep, or escape.

The rise in serotonin caused by agonizing routine, a hormone of hibernation, represents the first option.

The latter option is afforded for working people in small segments of (8 - 2 - 2) = 4 hours (or often less) of daily time to do something nontrivial, weekends +- other chores/maintenance, sometimes a week or two of vacation time per year.

What to say? Maybe it's the serotonin talking but sometimes I feel the need to be a good soldier and live in the trenches for a few weeks.

Injecting just a tiny bit of novelty (go for a walk outside for ten minutes, a chaotic living environment) really helps when you're in this mode.

@Dedeluded Per my memory of the interviews...

Ray didn't like the concept of marriage, as a form of authoritarian ownership. He'd been with a woman together for many decades but I'm not sure to what extent it was a marriage, or something they thought of as such.

In another interview, Ray was asked what to do if a spouse died. After some grieving he said that one had to go "out to find a suitable replacement", which earned some laughs from the interviewers.

I tend to think he was a stone-cold guy who didn't feel the need to establish a legalized exclusivity of his woman. And not really putting her on a pedestal as The One and Only (if she were to die) at the same time.

I suppose it makes sense in the grander view of metabolism. Grieving for inappropriately long is almost a form of constipation.

@Dedeluded

I mean, I might invoke the concept of the DHT/T ratio, and DHT trending with a masculine calmness. A lot of behaviors which are thought of as "macho", like aggression and "high libido", can be thought of as the result of a lower DHT/T ratio, and relatively more estrogen (aromatized from testosterone). An adaptation to a violent, higher-stress situation, which prunes other "higher" potentialities. Convict mentality of death looming around the corner.

It's reddit of me to mention, but I think the male hero of Twin Peaks, Dale Cooper, shows a picture of the kind of masculinity Ray was interested in more so. "Eagle Scout" type stuff. Somewhat sensitive, so as to get the job done, but not solipsistically so.