Posts made by yerrag

@Truth I said I was wrong, yes. But I am a low energy person. I give up easily in an argument going nowhere. I slept well notwithstanding. My choice of words is regrettable for the backlash I cannot explain enough for sensitive people like you. You are on a moral crusade to prevent toxic people like me from people who walk on eggshells from joining this forum.

If you were a moderator, you would ban me. If you could shadow ban me, you would not hesitate to do so. This forum, hopefully, will be a "safe space" for me from the shadow banning and censorious form the fake reality social media space we had to put up with that don't engage anymore but simply shadow ban.

I grew up in a world where bullying was not encouraged but tolerated. It made me stand up to bullies. It made be develop and stand up to the bullies that exist outside the artificial rules-based order of the school. You are obviously a product of the newer, stricter, no-bullying with no ifs and buts order. Makes you weak and unable to cope with people who understand that reality is not fair nor kind. You are but a small puppy with a loud bark.

@Peatly said in Banned from RP forum : Can you do better than this.:

it was really that bad surely you would have left way before you were banned?

I should have long ago. It was a mistake to spend more time in a sinking ship. To not follow the others who left earlier and to be in denial that there was something slowly eating away RPF. It was hard to see the apple was also rotting from its core. I saw it rotting away from its periphery only.

I don't know you or don't recognize you. But you are a person of reason. The forum can benefit from your presence. Your criticism is well taken. I don't use strong words that appear like I lack empathy, but I use them from time to time because they can wake people up from their slumber.

@Not_James_Bond

I woke up to see @truth wasting a lot of energy for one word

@sphenoid I chuckle

We both wasted a lot of energy but I hope you were entertained by this clown

@Truth

You know, I don't have a crystal ball.

But I think more pay to support charlie than personally benefiting from RPF.

Some members, like haidut, contribute to the site with posts of value and draw more members in and can say they don't need to pay subscription fees because their posts bring value to the site. If they pay for the subscription, it is to support charlie.

But haidut is a poor example though, as he gets product sales from being in the forum and so he benefits from increased product sales through having more exposure being in the forum.. Which is likely why after being banned by charlie, haidut would rejoin gladly after being let back in by charlie.

But members who were grandfathered (being members under the old free model, ie no subscription needed) don't have to pay anything to continue their membership. Those that do voluntarily pay subscription fees either to show their support for charlie mainly even though there is not much benefit from being members, or because they see themselves supporting charlie because they actually benefit from being members.

I never paid any subscription fees. I used to post a lot and I think that my many posts have some value in providing some answers to health issues. I also felt I have ceased to benefit from the quality of posts from members, and so I wasn't compelled to subscribe. And that was way before charlie went on a new crusade against vitamin A. If I were still a member, I would be more inclined to not subscribe if I weren't banned. I believe many subscribe not because they see the value of the site as much as they wanted to support a site that carries on Ray Peat's legacy. And some would simply want to support charlie for maintaining the website.

But if RPF would keep losing members that provide posts of value, which already begun even before. Charlie took it to a new direction that is more anti-peat than before, it would not be able to sustain itself from an exodus of subscribers.

RPF, as I said in previous a previous, has been a failure. Its main pillar is that optimal sugar metabolism is the key to health. Yet the site is vexed and stuck in not knowing how to make its members transform themselves from being poor sugar metabolizers into optimal sugar metabolizers. Ray Peat spoke only about the superiority of having optimal sugar metabolism, bit never spoke how to go about making that transformation. The site could have provided that a workable blueprint on how to go about that transformation, thus enabling many members towards the path to metabolic health. But it never got that going. There was a member named Cirion. He was piling on weight taking in lots of sugar because he believed sugar was good, but his body did not metabolize sugar well, and so he suddenly dropped out never to be heard from again. We don't really know if is still alive.

I feel charlie would be better off refocusing the website towards making the transformation to optimal sugar metabolism be a key goal before he embarked on his anti-peat mission.

I hooe a site such as this would be such an enabler, and that alone innitaelf would be a milestone achievement.

@Truth

Now you are communicating more directly. I understand now why you are incensed, and rightly so. I must be wrong in assuming you're American, as Americans are more direct.

Then I will not call them morons because they are benefiting from RPF. They have something to gain, and are not morons. They have a good reason.

You could have said so earlier. If you can just be more direct, I can understand your side better.

I thought for a while you wanted to ban the use of certain words in the forum. And I wrongly thought you were objecting just because you have a PC orientation.

As it stands, I no longer support charlie nor RPF. Charlie's recent actions and decisions may still be seen in better light by those who support him and his newly officially adopted stances on vitamin A, and with a smaller base of members, would need more subscription revenues from less product sales or ads. But I may be wrong as charlie may become in the good graces of Google, and be able to draw a lot more eyeballs and subscriptions as he goes over to their side.

@Truth

If you can't understand, how does that make me a moron?

@Truth

Keep on trucking. Why you keep on asking how many people pays charlie makes no sense at all. Does no one, or 10, or 100, or 1000, make any difference as to whether they are morons or not? You just don't get it. Hence- no relevance. You just want to blur this exchange into a meaningless one.

You must spend lots of time pestering people perched on your moral platform ad nauseum.

You know, perhaps I should simply avoid using strong words just to make you happy. Yeah, starting with "moron." Any another word you want to cancel? Then we can waste our time on better things.

@Truth

You ask why, I give you my answer. You aren't satisfied. Nothing I say will anyway. When I use a word, I pick what describes well without use of an adjective, and intentionally chose "moron." There is always one guy who will act as Miss Manners when strong words are used, and you stepped up on your high horse to criticize me for using such a strong word. When I answer you cogently, you have nothing else to say but call me a moron. Perhaps you felt insulted because I used the word oxymoronic to refer to the idea you espouse that implies only healthy people can be called morons, exposing a fault in your logic, and you then think I called you a moron, betraying your lack of comprehension, and you retort because you are hurt and now you call me a moron.

You are one funny person. Doing what you condemn my doing in the process. Are you always this way? Must be a hell of a life.

@Truth Your questions are irrelevant, really, when you can stop and reflect on it. Your high and mighty scrupulousness sees a certain cruelty and injustice at work in my calling people morons. There is a certain political correctness in you that makes you allergic to the word. It is oxymoronic also to think that a person has to be healthy and of sound mind to be able to be called a moron. That is what you imply when you say people who are sick cannot be called morons, but that is precisely what makes one a moron. Because one has to be sick and that sickness extends to the mind, making him incapable of making good decisions nor being able to learn from his mistakes.

And those who support charlie by gladly paying to subscribe may initially be driven to support him not knowing his true nature. But knowing his true nature, and acknowledging they made a mistake supporting him given he has shown his true face, and assuming they recognize Charlie does not deserve their support, they withdraw their subscription and leave - I don't consider them morons.

But those who continue to support charlie because they consciously believe charlie deserves their support, they are free to do so. But my opinion is they are still morons because they are are unable to question the wisdom and motive of Charlie's abrupt change in direction that calls into question charlie dropping his support for the pillars of Ray Peat's research and calling vitamin A a poison while Generaux and Smith are hailed on the strength of a hypothesis unproven enough to be called a theory while there are questions that remain as to whether vitamin A is really a poison or a substance that simply is in excess that makes it harmful, just like any beneficial substance would be when in excess. Also, just because the experience of having bad outcomes taking vitamin A existing does not extend to the entire human race (and perhaps only applies to a subset of it) further makes the hypothesis flimsy at best. And that if the experience of vitamin A being toxic only applies to a US population (or a heavily US-influenced western population) should beg the question of whether this population has been poisoned by modern western medicine (with its drugs and vaccines), then it is premature to even state vitamin A in and of itself is toxic. Supporting someone with a penchant for jumping the gun without much real science and careful inquiry behind him is moronic, and highly dangerous to one's health.

I'm glad you ask this question of whether I should call people morons. I give you a long answer and hopefully you can get off your high horse.

Have you ever wanted to call someone a moron and never do just because it doesn't sound correct? But deep inside you consider him a moron? Are you more concerned about your image in being highly cultured? Or are you merelycurrying the approval of your peers in doing so?

@Truth Do you keep making the same mistake again and again and never learn from it? Those that don't are not morons. They are actually great people as they aren't afraid to make decisions, and own up to their mistakes and are honest about it, and learn from it. They are not morons.

@Truth Sorry if I should use that word liberally. But I still have to use that word because while it is not their fault they cannot think for themselves and have a need for a messiah to guide them, they are just like the voters in a democracy that continually get fooled into voting the wrong leaders.

What term would you use when you make an intelligent decision but accept it doesn't make a difference because you have to abide by the majority vote composed of morons?

If there are less morons, would there be less Charlies, and if there are less Charlies, would there be more hope in making the world better? Yet more and more morons exist in the US than at any time in history, not just in absolute terms, but in percentage. Let's just call a spade a spade and not soft-pedal it.

@Not_James_Bond I am surprised from the start of Charlie's plan to transition to a subscriptions based model that there are people who believed in supporting charlie in subscribing to a forum already losing membership quality. Charlie knows it. The early members that provided much of the momentum and credibility to the forum have gone save for a few that still cling to the hope that the quality may yet be infused with new quality members. If there was some remaining value to the forum, it is in the quality of its trove of posts from early years. Very little quality remains from posts in the recent past. Newbies go through the wringer of bad advices from fellow members who can only give short advice often so banal you can get simply by googling, simply defeating the role a knowledgeable forum plays in countering the filtered results in Google where the intent is to lead people down rabbit holes and wild goose chases. With no third rail existing to stop bad advice from dominating the forum. No one is able and willing enough to arrest the downtrend in quality and the increase in garbage material coming in the form of thoughtlessly opinionated advice. The forum has turned into a cesspool I would no longer recommend friends to.

And all of what I just said is before Charlie began to shout as loudly to increase the destruction in the avalanche. I feel so bad this happened, as many unwitting and impressionable and credulous people are going to get trapped in the avalanche. I believe there would still be many trusting souls out there who do not know they are on a sinking ship and do not know the concept of cutting their losses, throwing good money after bad. I know one when I see one as I have a sister just like that. And it is a lost cause. The more I explain, the more she digs in. Doing the same thing that hasn't worked in the hope it will work the next time.

The subscription model of Charlie may still work for him unfortunately. There are plenty of morons who perceive value in paying for bad advice and very few sharp people who knows how to get good advice for free. There are enough morons around to contribute to charlie's grandiose plans to build his empire.

@mostlylurking said in Just found out I have reactive hypoglycemia. What now?:

All very good! Your brain's working well. I suffered from circular thinking for many years. So did my brother; he showed me the condition of his mouth when he was 55; he still had all the amalgam fillings he got as a child. He was desperate to get the circular tick tick tick to turn off. I didn't know how to help him (this was 15 years ago). He committed suicide a few months later.

I'm sorry to see him go that way. Unknown as a casualty of mainstream quack destistry. The ADA, ironically, was born with the seed of mercury amalgamation, and so is tied intimately to mercury and all the while it has denied its toxicity. The dentists against the use of mercury lost out to the ADA because the mercury way was the less painful way, and the effects of mercury do not result in immediate death or sickness, so it was able to hide under the radar.

My dad, come to think of it, was diseased with circular thinking. We was also paranoid, and suffered from both an inferiority complex and a persecution complex. Growing up, it would take forever to have a reasonable argument with him. He would also bring up the past time and again, unrelated as it is to the subject at hand. His influence, unfortunately, was transmitted to most of my sisters, who would have the habit of talking in circles that I eventually avoid having anything to do with them when ever we have to get together and discuss anything. They are pathologically unable to stick to the agenda. But having been subjected to this, I am well aware of it and have long ago vowed, even when I was just ten, not to be like that.

Later on, I felt sorry for my dad instead, as his mind was polluted by mercury, as he had a lot of mercury fillings. I made it a priority to have my mercury fillings in 11 teeth removed. It cost a lot, but thankfully I took advantage of my company's generous health insurance plan to rid myself of it.

@mostlylurking said in Just found out I have reactive hypoglycemia. What now?:

Hah!! That's a wonderful story! I had cats for many many years; they're wonderful animals. The choices for cat food in the grocery store is just awful. Too much A, too much ash, too much pufa.

I've been taking selenium since last summer. I got blood work done late September and both of my doctors remarked on how much healthier I'd become.

Can you point me to reliable information about iodine? And what's the deal with getting selenium for your iodine intake?

After a few misfires in attempting to provide my cats with food that isn't processed nor pelletized that is so carb heavy, which isn't really suitable, I settled on buying fresh fish in the wet market that is served cooked (without the heavily thyroid-laced head) and sprinkled with supplementation that has their essential protein taurine, among other supplements.. I add shredded coconut meat for its coconut oil content. For dessert they have some scraps of meat from the dinner table I share with them, as well as vegetables I eat, mostly cooked green leaves with coconut milk, or served with a crustacean sauce (which is copper rich. I give them some milk for treats as well. After experiencing a heavy death rate before (unfortunately from my ignorance), my cats are now showing signs of "living long and prospering." The oldest is now 8 years old so I have a lot of time left to see if he can reach 30 years of age and perhaps outlive me.

Selenium acts like an antioxidant in the form of a component of glutathione peroxidase, where its job is to reduce the excess production of hydrogen peroxide used to make T4 in the thyroid and liver and other organs. With a deficiency in selenium, the hydrogen peroxide excess would lead to an excess of T4 as well as tissue destruction. That is how I remember it, although I would rather than you check if my summation is correct here:

https://chrismasterjohnphd.substack.com/p/the-antioxidant-system

CMJ covers a lot here. I am not sure which of the videos cover it, as it has been a long time since I last viewed them.

@mostlylurking said in Just found out I have reactive hypoglycemia. What now?:

banana bags

you mean for thiamine iv infusion?

@mostlylurking said in Just found out I have reactive hypoglycemia. What now?:

I'm very hopeful that you will be able to fully recover. Or at least achieve tremendous improvement.

I am very confident of this as well.

@mostlylurking said in Just found out I have reactive hypoglycemia. What now?:

I had ataxic gait fall of 2020; I kept bouncing off the walls. I also developed a tremor in my right hand. But these resolved via high dose thiamine hcl. When I got so sick, I was taking thiamine hcl, 100mg, 2Xday, but I took it with orange juice (oops). Many of the patient Before Treatment videos show people having a hard time walking, so the Ataxic Gait seems to be a tell tale sign.

I just learned of the term "gait ataxia" or "ataxic gait.." Is this your first time to hear the term as well? Seems like had I know of this term earlier, I would not refer to it as "a symptoms of parkinson's" or "myasthenia gravis." As it would be easier to see it associated with beriberi and to vitamin b1 deficiency.

@mostlylurking said in Just found out I have reactive hypoglycemia. What now?:

It seems that all of the thiamine experts that I have relied on are clinicians; they all have had hands on experience treating actual patients rather than only being off in some laboratory working with test tubes and computers. There's tons of good research you can find on line about thiamine, but expensive double blind studies are scarce because no one can patent thiamine.

Very true! This is where the practitioners of "evidence-based" scientism lord it over clinicians all the time. Sad that a majority worship at the temple of scientism. The irony is that the more "educated" one is the more he relies less on other measures of evidence that includes observation and perceiving and thinking. And rely on curated google searches and wikipedia as their research.

Why we are in this forum is to sidestep that illusion, yet many people here still trust google as the final arbiter.

I'm just as glad as you are that we used this forum to confirm each other's experiencing gait ataxia and if I can confirm megadosing b1 is effective, it strengthens our "clinician" equivalent approach to the other "evidence-based' approach. If this forum can do more of this kind of discovery, it would become far more helpful and useful than other forums.

@mostlylurking said in Just found out I have reactive hypoglycemia. What now?:

Elliot Overton counsels clients in nutrition. He has a lot of good videos about thiamine.

Dr. Chandler Marrs treats patients at her clinic.

Dr. Derrick Lonsdale was a pediatrician at the Cleveland Clinic. He's retired now, is over 100 years old, takes TTFD daily, and still responds to questions in the Comments (below the articles) at hormonesmatter.com.

Dr. Costantini (died 2020), treated thousands of Parkinson's Disease patients successfully in Italy with thiamine hcl.

I have to find more time to view/read those links you shared earlier. Thanks a lot!

@Regina said in New "Mission" of RPF:

@yerrag Well, Ray Peat Right Again! He was prescient about where the RPF would go. And it had to run its course to its miserable conclusion.

Well yeah, I stood up to him. I don't know why everybody didn't put him in a corner and pee on him. (figuratively)
I'd like to beat him up. Sorry. He brings out my irish.

I am not surprised about him doing podcasts with Georgi and Danny. He was always able to sort through and discern value.

I miss those synergystic times. Priceless!

Yeah. I miss especially being able to write him and ask him why, in his latest newsletter at the time, he would state a certain cause and effect relationship exists. As he often leaves the why hanging. But he would answer it (sometimes I will ask someone else to ask if he doesn't answer me back). I can understand why he does that. There are many reasons. But I think he does that mainly to tease our minds and to make us think. And as a good teacher, he likes to develop that in his students. Maybe like a true guru would. But I always fail that and had to write him. Now that he's gone, I feel orphaned.

@Luke said in New "Mission" of RPF:

@yerrag

Timpone once asked him in an interview about something he read (quote) "on your forum". Peat didn't respond to "your forum", but maybe he just didn't get it acoustically.

If Timpone thought it was "his" forum, he probably wasn't the only one. That's why I fear that Charlie and his disciples are now dragging Ray's name into the mud with them.

Yes, it seemed that Ray was too busy keeping up with researching and writing his newsletter. His mojo would be wrecked dealing with just one annoyance for to start with one he may be inclined to deal with all and as it were, he found it necessary to reduce his newsletter writing output in his last years from every 2 months to every quarter.

For me, his last newsletters had a different direction to it. He was more into connecting the dots of his previous research and newsletters, rather than to dig new sources for material, as that is very taxing in his age. I was able to see that at work as I had less connecting of dots to do. I wished he had stayed longer, as I think connecting the dots is a more personally rewarding activity.

@mostlylurking I have a better term now for what I call Parkinson's, it is gait ataxia, and it is related to b1 deficiency, under the condition of dry beri beri. I have this symptom only when I was better, and prior to getting hospitalized, I had a lot of symptoms of wet beriberi, including heart failure.

https://samarpanphysioclinic.com/ataxic-gait/

I'm keeping this short, but the long and short of this is that I was actually experiencing both forms of beriberi. Somehow I didn't have enough thiamine, even though all this time I was taking 250mg of thiamine along with b3 and b6. Perhaps it was because I has been urinating a lot for so many years, and though I was fine having no beriberi, what pushed me over the edge was when last year I created a perfect storm unknowingly that affected my lungs causing acute bronchitis and while not dully healed I began my lead detox with Emeramide and the healing crisis that came about put my lungs in further stress.

It seemed to me I am paying a big price for ignoring you all the way back in RPF.

@CO3 Still have the symptoms of SAD

Sad for Spain and its inhabitants but happy for you