Posts made by yerrag

@BioEclectic said in New "Mission" of RPF:

@yerrag
As a lifelong student of history, rewriting and erasing is visceral.

Large smear campaigns are bad enough but the time to really worry are when names and bodies of work begin to disappear (has anyone tried to research Gilbert Ling a second time lately, without resorting to books?). I can name and discuss estoric historical examples all day long.

The web and digital are both great and terrible places to store information btw.

They're actually doing more than just erasing the likes of Gilbert Ling, pushing what advances our station as humans by depriving us of revolutionary knowledge, but also depriving of access literally to tools to apply such knowledge to improve our health.

I know. Just my experience with using hundred dollar devices made by Chinese companies from Shenzhen speaks volumes.

One of them is a ring that takes very accurate measurements of oxygen saturation and displays them in a chart. To visualize what the fluctuations in spO2 that even in the ICU (where I had the serendipity to be confined in due a stroke of luck- a perfect storm that landed me there) I cannot see with all their expensive monitoring devices there.

I am constantly adding these tools. So I'm aware when future versions of software such as apps become dumbed down and become toys for the average consumer.

I have spent the past two days trying to make an app work for the O²Ring, which I had been using for the past 3 years, and learning a lot from using it as it relates to my health. The insight I got from it has been invaluable. I know because during my confinement I spoke about my findings with my attending doctors and they could not relate to what I was showing them.

The new app for the O²Ring has been dumbed down, and I had been using older versions of the app for a while already. But then all of a sudden, the old apps started crashing. I kept on installing and using older and older versions of the app, until the oldest version In could find. All crashed. In my old phone as well as in my newer android phone. Such that it rendered my O²Ring practically useless except for the newer apps giving very little information amidst all the eye candy in user interface design. It essentially making an app meant for users of the Oura. Simplified and meant for the user to accept the expertise and AI involved in interpreting the data for him.

Unless I can write my own app and have access to the APIs, which are protected by IP (intellectual property) laws, my exploration deeper into applying what we know of bioenergetics from the likes of Ling and Peat on my own with low cost but powerful devices from the Chinese will become more and more difficult.

The only way all the old apps would keep crashing, I believe, has to do with the Android software that has lately been seeded with code that makes even old apps crash. I think in this area the powers that be are beginning to insidiously make the masses paupers in using low cost and empowering tools to better their health. Such devices are lately becoming more commonplace, and the sensors used are getting cheaper as they become more accurate. They are now nipping this nascent wave in the bud.

Another sign to add to what is happening to RPF as they start corralling us like cattle into the feed lot.

@Hando-Jin said in New "Mission" of RPF:

@yerrag said in New "Mission" of RPF:

@ilovethesea said in New "Mission" of RPF:

I think this Thor Torrens person is an agent assigned to popularize the “low vitamin A/anti-Peat” project. Has anyone found the viral video this guy is referring to?

Also look at his Twitter bio... special assistant to POTUS? Emmy winner?

Same asshole energy as Garrett Smith what a surprise

Jocks with some science to sell.

Buying- the desperate already hooked on Fentanyl with some to spare. Muscles and guns give the sellers street cred.

looks like a dead-eyed psychopath

"How about we stand on south beach with our shirts off and ask all the women who walk by who has better eyes me or you"

the alpha king who thinks female validation is the ultimate metric

I suspect he doesn't show his chest in photos or videos because he has gyno

He finds himself over the years attracting people with fundamentalist inclinations. He may actually have gyno, and can't bear his chest, but clothes himself with guns as wearables. Nice catch.

@BioEclectic

A practice since time immemorial.

Modernized, but less incendiary both physically and less viscerally felt.

To allow history to keep repeating itself with the same tried and true methods of imprisoning us without our knowledge nor consent.

@Mulloch94 said in New "Mission" of RPF:

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

Let's just say I've been on both sides of the Israel issue

What do you mean by this? Are you just talking about the most recent events? Because Israel and Palestine have been going at it for a long time. I think this is really more of a divider on the American right than anywhere else. Most people on the left (outside of corporate democrats) stand pretty much in solidarity with Palestine. I'll refrain from giving my personal views on it as well, but lets just say, insufferable pricks like Ben Shapiro routinely like to weaponize their Jewish status as a means for identifying and calling out antisemitism .When in reality, more times than not, the people charged with antisemitism were usually just being critical of vulgar Israeli nationalism and human rights violations.

For the Holy Week, if I were Jesus, I would recommend to you this recent history of the Church, following the victory of the Jews over the church Jesus Christ established in WWIi:

https://www.unz.com/article/the-smoke-of-the-synagogue/

This article shows the height and depth of what the Jewish controllers and masters would do to infiltrate the head of the snake, the papacy. It would not be surprising for a revised history of WWII be written by Jew financier- financed rewriting of recent history, further making the Catholic Church a church that acted as a willful collaborator in the fictional Holocaust. As more Catholics leave this church for the "anti-religion (in words and not by reality of deed, as seen in how much of a religion it is to revere Jewry as the chosen people leading them to unknowingly, at least initially, be led by the pied piper of Christian Zionism)" and direct to Jesus evangelical churches, the more Israel and Zionist loving Christianity becomes to such extent that if possible at all, and if the rabbis permit (which would not be the first time) Christian conversion to Jewry.

Already, my fervently Catholic sister practices the seder, a Jewish meal to commemorate the Passover, and I don't even know if evangelicals do this as well.

But as Singaporeans would say "same same la." Both Catholics and Evangelicals have now more in common than before, in their converging view on Jews as being the chosen, and with that, a unity or a singularity is forming, as shaped by the ever growing strength and power and riches of tptb Talmudist and Zionist Jew financiers.

How one of the most anti-establishment personage in Jesus would become the most useful after death, spanning two millennia and more, in solidifying the establishment's hold on mankind- is something to both be marveled at and to despise to the fiber of our being. If we are astute enough to recognize this.

How this eventual reshaping and misshaping of noble intent was done is the blueprint for how modern day anti-establishment reformists and idealists and their ideas are being used to recapture our minds to blend in to the establishment's control of it. The more dependent we are on marching to their tune, the more safely ensconced they are in their absolute control of power. And the more power they have, the more abuse they can impose on us with impunity.

I think the undergoing project of tearing Ray Peat apart is a sub-cultural encapsulation of the general culture I described. To sum it best, it is nothing as simple as a rinse, wash, and repeat cycle played on the health and medical stage.

@ilovethesea said in New "Mission" of RPF:

I think this Thor Torrens person is an agent assigned to popularize the “low vitamin A/anti-Peat” project. Has anyone found the viral video this guy is referring to?

Also look at his Twitter bio... special assistant to POTUS? Emmy winner?

Same asshole energy as Garrett Smith what a surprise

Jocks with some science to sell.

Buying- the desperate already hooked on Fentanyl with some to spare. Muscles and guns give the sellers street cred.

@Ray-Van-Winkle just like machines of yore, they were built tough. They weren't digital. 100% analog.

@haidut

This is so hard for me to understand. Especially when the language revolves around the idea of receptors. Once I get into that world, it just seems like an expert, not necessarily referring to you, is explaining to me some arcane terms in quantum physics.

I could be wrong here, but isn't the idea of receptors something that came off the mechanical model based on a Cartesian model that is at odds with the concept of a life force or field model that sees life than more than just something that can be reduced to a mechanical model?

What I can relate to in concept is our organs, and the kidneys being just one of them, as being a collection of tissues. Tissues are composed of cells, and cells that are healthy are governed by a balance. When there is balance, there is an abundance of well-directed energy that keeps cells and tissues and organs functional with a minimum of stress. With stress at minimal levels, the organ does not have to adapt to stresses that create conditions for organs to calcify and to develop fibrosis. And when the kidneys do not undergo calcification and fibrosis, it stays very functional.

As when it is supplied with necessary inputs such as oxygen and sugar, and it makes good use of them by having an environment that is supportive of productive and beneficial processes. An environment free of toxins, with microbes always present that are not harmful but commensal that is free from infection, and an optimal acid-base balance that allows each cell in the organ the regulation of calcium ingress and egress, with potassium doing its role in regulating calcium entry in the cell (that can only be achieved with having the pH levels that only good sugar-based mitochondrial metabolism can unfailingly provide with an abundance of CO2 production) and with the calcium being spirited out of the cell as it pairs with CO2 as bicarbonate to keep internal calcification from developing.

I like this kind of explanation nor only because it addresses my need as a child in me to satisfy what is the cause of an effect. As I can understand it better and I can apply it in other situations.

But I find it hard to understand aldosterone in how it acts as its presence has never been explained without me saying "oh I am not worthy." and I better move on and leave it to the experts.

The kidneys and how it get so sick that there is CKD is such a mystery to us all.

And we end up using some formula called the eGFR in it's various versions to determine how much deep into CKD we are from stage 1 to 5. Relying on a formula that is so simplistic involving only the input of creatinine, age, sex, and race to determine kidney health. In reality, eGFR means "estimated," and this estimate is so wide in its variance to render it practically worthless for diagnosis, but still doctors forget to treat it as an estimate, and see it as the gold standard in the absence of something better. Just one way the practice of medicine is more an art than a science, and as an art competes with economics for distinction in the Nobel hall of infamy, only bested by the Peace Prize with its laureate, Barack Obama.

Yes, the use of pregnenolone and progesterone is good and I have no objection to their use. But in the context that these steroids and hormones are already part of the cast of actors in a body running on optimal sugar metabolism, wouldn't they be redundant in a healthy individual? And shouldn't they be seen as temporary crutches to use while the long term direction is to guide the patient towards being metabolically independent from the use of progesterone and pregnenolone?

@Key-2

It depends if you have always been clumsy since childhood or not.

In my case, I came to being what you described only last year. I began to megadose on B1 and my condition improved. Yet, after a while it came back but wasn't as pronounced anymore. So I began to megadose also on B3 together with B1, and upped my intake of B2 and B6. It is too early to tell as I'm just on m third day, and I still have a lot to figure out as to what blend I need. It is mostly by feel. The B3 I use is niacinamide. If needed, I may need to add some niacin as well. It is a very contextual approach and each person has a different set of needs, and I'm not even sure if B vitamins are what you need to add much less how much to take of each of the B vitamins.

I'm not even sure at all if you had been that clumsy still childhood if this treatment with vitamin B megadosing would not work, but if it's been that long you were in that condition it and if B vitamins help, the amount and the duration involved might take longer. Only saying this because in some situations the body has to slowly work itself back to shape.

I still have to read a lot on the vitamin B stuff and this isn't Ray Peat's forte, but that of a doctor named Derrick Lonsdale, and as Dr. Lonsdale is very old already at past a hundred years, a few doctors have been able to use his research to further apply it to conditions such as ours. I'll have to post a link to another thread where @mostlylurking has provided a lot of links for me, which I haven't all looked at still. But anyway, to mostlylurking I wanted to say I have added B3 and B2 as you suggested and I have not yet strayed to niacin, sticking to niacinamide for now. It feels better already, and I will stick with it and observe before making any additional changes. Thanks.

I once went on a 1-year membership with a spa because it has a steam bath and a cold water dipping pool that goes down to 12 C. Hot cold therapy was recommended to me where I would spend 15 minutes in the steam room followed by 1 minute of cold water immersion. I would do this about 6 reps of this. I did this for a year 3x a week.

I never saw anyone dip into the cold pool. Most people can't take the cold.

I didn't know if they're low metabolic, until one time when I had bronchitis for a while. At that time, I went and swam in my koi pond to clear up some gunk, mostly mangos and leaves plugging up the bottom drain. I ended up shivering so much and took my temperature. It had plummeted to 36, or even lower. Then I realize the hypoxemia from my bronchitis is taking a toll on me big time. I swam back up and immediately wrapped myself in a blanket and drank hot water to bring up my temperature. It took me a while to be able to get back to swimming again. This. All because of a deficiency in oxygen intake.

I don't know why, but the hot and cold therapy made me lose a lot of weight. I went from a healthy BMI of 145 lbs. to a low BMI of 125 lbs. I am five foot seven. I expected a detox, but I lost a lot of weight.

So anyway. Yes, no doubt people who can't take easily to cold weather lack the metabolism to keep themselves warm.

@Kilgore Opa!

@Hando-Jin You got that right!

@TheRealPeater

Never an issue with me.

Seek your minerals from food. Whole food.

I was low on copper, but not too low. Still, my ceruloplasmin was on the low range of normal. Since it is widely known that it's hard to get the right amount of copper supplementation, Ray recommends getting it through food such as shrimp. But I didn't eat shrimps because I didn't like that they were farm-raised. So I went with a local crustacean that is made into a paste used for flavoring (bagoong is what it's known as in the Phils. and widely used. I ate that regularly with my cooked greens for a year (making sure I don't overdo it) and a year later, my ceruloplasmin serum levels improved to the high of normal.

He also recommends a weekly serving of oyster for zinc (and vitamin A). And a weekly serving of liver , for vitamin A.

I did just that, and I am much better for it.

Eating whole foods just has a way of getting our intake of these minerals into body just right.

But I only get away with doing this because I live in a place where I can easily obtain such foods fresh without breaking the bank. When I was in the US and living in a city, it was hard to meet my nutritional needs through whole foods, unless I splurge by going to Whole Foods. I had to rely on supplementation.

@DBL21

Imho, often overlooked is acid-base balance w/r to tissue calcification. Easy to test at home with pH test strips (cheap too) to measure urine and saliva pH. There's a method to the madness.

If you have good to optimal sugar metabolism, you don't have to do much as acid-base balance is built into it. This way, calcium is well-regulated by potassium in the cell membrane, keeping calcium out of the cell as much as possible with only enough allowed in to allow muscles the calcium gradient (between inside and outside the cell) that enables contraction and relaxation of muscles.

Apart from the metabolic factors (nutrition inputs, sun, oxygen, sleep), metabolism can be impaired by the presence of toxins and infections that left unresolved will cause energy to be directed towards continually fighting small fires where energy production is impaired, and the loss of energy will cause the body to compensate with more stress hormones. These stress hormones can help us in times of great stress, but a body always in stress mode becomes a body in survival mode. And a body in such a mode will very likely calcify because being chronically stressed will be expressed in poor acid-base balance, and calcium can easily accumulate in tissues and calcificarion and fibrosis will result.

@Lovesickhs18

Not that I know much about martial arts.

But your leg muscles have to pack a punch, and a lot of workouts don't work on the leg and thigh and ankles.

Strong core muscles aid in flexibility to evade attack as it helps with maintaining balance and recovery from attacks and being able to strike back from defensive positions.

These are helpful apart from making your techniques second nature.

Is that made in Taiwan? Awesome!

@CharlieLover123

It must have been 4 years already thar my poop no longer stinks. Not a smell after I poop. In contrast, in the adjoining shower area where my cat likes to poop, I can smell the strong and foul odor I've come to expect from cat poop. So, I'm sure it's not my lack of sensitivity to smell that has become associated with COVID in the recent years.

It was the unintended consequence of many things I did which I can narrow down to two. First, I lowered my intake of soluble fiber as increased my intake of insoluble fiber. This was to reduce endotoxin and serotonin production. And I only went about doing this after a year of therapeutic magnesium supplementation to increase my magnesium stores. Having increased my magnesium stores enough (though I did not test for magnesium before and after, and I have my reasons for why I felt it wasn't necessary) after a year, where I shifted to an eating lifestyle rich in magnesium, I began to cut back on soluble fiber. I was raised on the idea of the more soluble fiber intake, the better bowel movement is. And while this is true, I realized this from Ray this came at the cost of increased endotoxin and serotonin production. Having high magnesium stores does away with the need for serotonin in the gut to drive peristalsis for smooth bowel movement. And my bowel movement has continued to be as easy as it was before.

At this point though, my poop still stank. But I thought nothing of it as it just seemed natural that poop would stink. After all, it is poop.

But I have a persistent issue which till now I have never overcome. This was like a waterloo for me, in contrast to other battles with chronic health where I felt like Hannibal making minced meat of the invincible Roman phalanx. It was about 20 years since my bp began rising from a normal 120/80 and had risen to level off at 180/120. I had by then decided to try a different tack from the usual methods from conventional medical wisdom and our overlords of misdirection. I decided to go the antimicrobial route. This tack, coupled with addressing toxins such as lead toxicity, was the right direction, however being directionally correct was only half the battle. So till now, ai am still fighting this battle, though I have been through the worst, survived, and am on a slow counter-offensive.

In the midst of it, I noticed that my poop no longer stank, and it's been 4 years. As the antibiotics (pharma)and anti-microbials (herbal, chemical) had to go thru my gut on the way to my blood vessels and tissues where toxins and microbes lay, my gut was in effect sterilized ( not totally, as that doesn't really happen). This would include the biofilms that line the gut walls, where anaerobic bacteria and fungi colonize and thrive.

Since I have a hobby raising koi in a pond, I came to be aware that anaerobes can be fermentative or putrefactive. Fermentative anaerobes (F for short) are seen as the good anaerobes and the putrefactive (P for short) as the bad. F smells sour and sweet, such as vinegar and beer and wine), whereas P is obnoxious, as in rotten eggs and hydrogen sulfide in high school chemistry lab. When F is dominant in the anaerobic microbiome hiding behind the gut biofilm, poop that comes out smells good, and when P is dominant, poop smells atrocious. This is my theory, at the very least.

It has been a very pleasant 4 years of waking up to my routine in the bathroom. I hope it stays that way.

@Peatful

some people only get to say oops once

@Peatly said in New "Mission" of RPF:

I am with you on this @yerrag I don’t believe any of this is coincidence or just stupidity. I believe there is a concerted effort to discredit Dr. Peat on all levels and to destroy the community that has been built up around the RPF.

We'll keep our eyes peeled and stay focused in improving both our own health and that of the bioenergetic community, which does not waver from Ray's spirit.

@Luke said in New "Mission" of RPF:

How many people read Ray Peat's articles and newsletters in the original? Who still has the mental capacity to do this? I read some time ago, which has nothing to do with the topic, that fewer and fewer people are watching entire basketball games and instead only individual highlights on youtube. If humanity doesn't even have the attention span to watch a fucking game anymore, who has the attention span to read Ray Peat? I suppose in the future (and present), people who find "Ray Peat" will get their information from people like Mercola, that Carnivore doc or - the worst option of all - raypeatforum.com. "Ray Peat" will then be about eating beans and how toxic milk and eggs are.

People are easily distracted and become their slave without knowing it. Especially when they have low energy, they tend to do things that require low energy, such as consuming, rather than creating. So it makes them more anenable to relaxing activity, such as being couch potatoes, or a binge-series watcher, or while away time in social media- fb, tiktok, instagram, and snapchat, though those who create in such media can be creators but they are not most people.

These people are not gonna read Peat's articles. No way. At the first encounter of a difficult concept, they get exhausted, and give up and turn their minds to low-energy activities.

Since most of their lives, they are motivated by higher grades, they won't have the drive or motor in them to go over the many roadblocks and humps in reading through Ray's articles. And you're right, they will get someone else to do their reading for them, such as Dr.Mercola, Dr. Axe, or be health groupie following in the footsteps of their guru such as Garrett Smith.

They can never understand what bioenergetics is all about. Because optimal sugar metabolism is joined to the hips with bioenergetics. Because mitochondrial respiration that produces the most energy per unit input relies on sugar and oxygen as the main feedstock, with a supporting cast of endogenous substances and external inputs in macros, vitamins, and minerals, with a minimum of toxins and trauma from within and without. And the most efficient production and usage of energy is one where a virtuous cycle is at play, and this involves the least reliance on stress hormones.

But to achieve that, the body has to be so fine-tuned that it it works like Swiss clockwork in order to merit a score of 10 like Nadia Comaneci did with achieving perfection with very complicated routines in the 76 Olympics.

Most people would settle for easier routines like ketogenic flips and carnivore sashays. They have no will nor desire to understand and execute the right principles for optimum health in the absence of chronic diseases with a long productive life with the physical body brimming with energy, and the mind as sharp and creative as ever, and a disposition that makes them just a joy to be around.

Way to go on destroying the legacy of a great man.

Que lastima!

Over my dead body.

@DavidPS said in Niacin Was, Is, and Always will be Essential to Life and the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Just for Starters:

Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, March 9, 2024
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v20n03.shtml

It's a great read. Thanks!

I wonder why the article mentions the other forms of NAD, but makes no mention of niacinamide. As I've been using niacinamide for a long time only because haidut talks a lot about it in RPF and very little is said of niacin except for my associating it with the flush reaction which I always had a negative association with. Although I bought some niacin from Prescribed for Life 3-4 years ago, I have not moved from thinking about trying it out and it has been in its unopened package.

What interests me more in the article is its use for patients with glioblastoma and demyelination disease. A short keyword search shows them to be neurological in nature. And since I still struggle with a mild form of ataxia now, having improved from megadosing with thiamine with the urging of @mostlylurking, I wonder if megadosing with either niacinamide or niacin would help as well.

For a long time, I couldn't make up my mind and even until now, I have just been taking niacinamide at 250mg daily. But when I moved my thiamine dosage daily from 250mg to 1500mg daily I experiences great improvement gait ataxia and another form of it involving vertigo, and the complete disappearance of ALS symptoms involving the throat retaining food that I've recently eaten.

Now, I should just start doing instead of thinking and start incorporating niacin in place of niacinamide, and go on to megadose on it to see what salutary effects it brings.

@Tahodama
Especially fishy ice cream lol