Posts made by saturnuscv

@C-Mex pharma / uni party benefits because what’s going to end up happening as a result of this is people who might have actually taken control of their lives via peat’s research are just going to get corralled back on to the Paleo/keto/fad diet plantation; which is long controlled by the establishment and poses no threat to anything.

Kind of hard to explain what I mean by this but Ray’s philosophy and research is really “infinite” in terms of potential compared to something like carnivore which is just a reductive lifestyle and is already “solved.” The powers that be don’t like infinite potential in the hands of everyday people.

@C-Mex this seems pretty obviously related to the whole “redirect all vaguely right wing or anti-establishment sentiment into evangelical Zionism” media complex

@ilovethesea LMAO. And there it is.

@C-Mex no. Brad and Georgi have both taken backups of the site.

@Mulloch94 ok so then my question would be: is aluminum lake, talc or silicon/titanium dioxide soluble in acetic acid?

@sightseeker god I really wish he would sell this on idealabs. I’d buy it so quick.

@Mulloch94 Famotidine is not water soluble. Is it soluble in vinegar? If not I would think that the Famotidine itself is included in the waste at the bottom of the glass…

@BioEclectic the “safest” on his list contains “aluminum lake” dyes… fuck no.

Its a shame that Famotidine is barely water soluble, and is definitely no more water soluble than it’s excipients. Very hard to extract the active from pills.

@Peatful just press that she is not in trouble and you are just concerned for her health.

Also “no free lunch,” cliche as it might be, is a pretty good way to illustrate the trade offs of the “chilled out” effect of weed. (It will make you more neurotic without it over time)

@Peatful I appreciate that, but it took a lot of work (exogenous hormones, serotonin antagonists, and peating) to get my cognitive function back to a reasonable baseline… so please don’t take me as evidence that weed is harmless

@Peatful honestly, I can’t tell you what to say. My parents tried to stop me but I was hardheaded about it and just became deceitful. I thought it was perfectly safe and ignored their loving attempts to correct my behavior. (“its like… a natural plant mannnn”)

I had to learn the hard way when I became too sick, lazy, and retarded to function.

From a place of full sincerity, I think the teenage urge towards psychoactive drugs is just a desire for novelty. I don’t know how open-minded you are, but one option would be trying to redirect her desire for such novelty onto a different, less harmful substance such as psilocybin or other mild psychedelic. Which would be self-limiting as they only “work” for a few hours once every several weeks. She’ll still feel “cool” but it won’t interfere with her schooling or brain development.

Ray spoke positively about similar substances, and I actually made good use of them to help my autism and I would even say they helped me reverse some of the damage done by THC…

If that’s out of the question, (reasonable), there’s really nothing you can do short of impressing the hormonal impact. I’m sure a teenage girl might receive poorly the information that THC damages your metabolism and could make her gain weight. She might also not like the potential long term fertility effects if she has any inclination towards being a mother. (Weed babies come out a bit retarded)

On nicotine/vapes, just impress the reality that these things are totally new tech and have untested ingredients, and potential for heavy metal exposure (and all the associated diseases).

Also just coming from a regular nicotine user due to dependence, holy shit is it an expensive fucking habit.

THC suppresses steroidogenesis, including the creation of neurosteroids that protect the brain, and will legitimately give you brain damage if it’s used daily. Also not super awesome for the liver and can cause fatty liver disease in addition to making you gain weight (fat) more easily. Using THC as a teenager was probably the most overall negative thing I ever did for my health.

Nicotine is not really that big of a deal apart from being mildly addicting. The issue with vapes is the potential for heavy metals to leech out of the heating element and be vaporized along with the vape juice. (The juice itself may have some health concerns associated but hasn’t been around long enough for anyone to know)

@ilovethesea fucking LOL. Weird how all facelord wignats are so aggressively ugly and retarded.

@Barghest this exactly. I’ve gained some weight peating. I also feel substantially less autistic, anxious, and neurotic.

Peating isn’t and was never about losing weight. The only people who are likely going to lose weight peating are people who are severely estrogen/cortisol dominant and overweight for that reason.

If someone’s whole idea of “health” is “I am lean” then I can definitely see peating being a disappointment.

Peating for me has mirrored the progress I made on my autism in my late teens with LSD, but rather than being cured all at once semi-temporarily, it’s been incremental permanent improvements over a long period of time. IMO, anything that moves me in this liberating direction mentally is objectively good.

But yeah, I’ve gained like 20 lbs… must be from my liver not working due to vitamin A toxicity. Better become a neurotic gaunt skeleton…

@Mulloch94 she’s also hiding 60% of her face with her hair in the second image so who knows what edematous horror we may really be looking at here.

I’m honestly open to the idea that some people do benefit from Garrett because they are genuinely Vit A toxic. People who are “eating a Ray Peat diet” with tons of liver, missing the nuance of peat’s liver/A recommendation, etc. I think the notion that this is applicable to everyone is absurd.

I get maybe 50% of my calories and probably close to 70-80% of my protein from whole milk fortified with Vit A palmitate, (not even an ideal source) and I feel 100x better than a few years ago when I was still avoiding dairy and coincidentally eating more or less exactly what Smith advocates for now. (Rice & muscle meat were all my digestive system could tolerate)

@Peatly @moonpiemantooth @Sunniva these are good suggestions and we will try them before resorting to more drastic measures.

@moonpiemantooth I understand that not having your period due to malnourishment is a sign of metabolic dysfunction. I’m talking about purposely stopping it while not malnourished in the same way BC would. I don’t think they’re the same thing.

My fiancé suffers from extremely painful menstrual cramps. She is from outside the USA and claims that since moving here they went from a minor annoyance to an extremely painful debilitation. It interferes with her ability to work or go outside, every month for several days.

I’m aware that prostaglandins theoretically play a role here. We are actively working on PUFA depletion, she takes aspirin regularly, and I am giving her Progest-E almost daily to try and break free of estrogen dominance. But this takes time. The ultimate goal is to help her pain while we work out our long term escape from this disgusting country to somewhere nice in Europe, and then when she gets off hopefully the less toxic environment will lend itself naturally to less pain.

We decided that ideally she would stop having periods entirely while we work on her overall metabolic health. Obviously hormonal BC is the easy solution here, but past experiences with it made her incredibly depressed. I’ve wondered about giving her some kind of bioidentical HRT as an alternative to BC. I know that many androgens will stop menstruation in women and I am wondering if I could administer one to her (in a reasonable non-virilizing dose) alongside progesterone/pregnenolone (and estriol?) to stop her periods. The side effect of body recomposition is not an issue here.

Is this completely insane? Has anyone tried this? Thoughts? Theorycrafting? Concerns?

@Gaston it’s anti-cortisol and doesn’t supply a substrate to make estrogen so feeling sleepy is not unusual.