Posts made by yerrag

@dapose

Your timing is perfect! I'm back to having issues sleeping last night. I think it is serotonin buildup due to lungs becoming edematous, and when in bad shape for whatever reason the lungs lose its ability to deactivate serotonin.

I haven't tried using negative ion generators but I think it will help in an incrementally synergistic way, given the edematous condition. I've found using methylene blue, red light, breathing carbogen, vitamin d, eggshell calcium supplementation, magnesium carbonate - altogether help in minimizing the effect of carbon monoxide in causing edema in my lungs, which is the result of heme oxygenase breaking down dead red blood cells producing CO, biliverdin, and iron. I have an ongoing release of previously congested dead rbc's from my lymphatic system which sees no end until all the dead rbc's are flushed out of my system. I'm dealing with the after effects of heart failure which began with bronchitis that caused a mass killing of RBCs that overwhelmed my system. Normally RBCs die and get recycled and/or excreted in small manageable quantities, but in a larger scale the body can't manage it well enough. And I don't think our doctors are trained to handle such cases, which having a Peat viewpoint and approach helps us see through.

So far I've benefited from reading Ray's research and insights into heme oxygenase, and I have an approach to deal with the stressful conditions involving carbon monoxide and iron release by heme oxygenase. The healing and recovery process is slow, and for the next 3 months I imagine I have to be at rest as my breathing is strained and my blood pressure would remain high as a result of my phagocytes having to eat up iron and it's waste be excreted out fecally.

I'd appreciate very much your passing on what info you have on negative ion generators. If I end up buying one, it would just add to my toolbox of useful devices outside of the medical complex, which I haven't regreted acquiring.

@Njegos

I'm not so sure though. A good fine HEPA filter might do better, given what Sippy said. Toxins can't be killed, so a filter to keep them away from you would be more effective.

Ray is pro carbs, but not as pro fats as he is pro carbs. He is pro sat fats and monounsaturated fats, but all manners of PUFAs are a big no no for him. He isn't very fond of starch , especially from grains, as he sees grains as coming from seeds, and seeds contain allergens or anti-nutrients that are the grain's way of protecting itself from being eaten too readily, as a means of survival by grain plants.

Still on the subject of starch, he has no objection on potatoes and on around tubers. In fact, he likes potatoes because it contains keto acids, which can be used by the body to convert keto acids with amino acids present in the body to form protein.

For this reason, he has no objection to simple sugar such as sucrose, and even likes Mexican cola for the cane sugar it contains. He also likes fruits for the half glucose and half fructose it contains, as they aid each other in getting absorbed and metabolized by the body.

He certainly prefers the body to burn more sugar than fats, as burning too much fats would leave little room for sugar to be burned mitochondrially, which is more efficient in terms of energy production and which also produces carbon dioxide, which the body needs, such as in maximizing tissue oxygenation (allowing blood to release oxygen to the tissues), as well as in maintaining a stable pH (aka acid base balance) to help the body operate without a lot of stress, which contributes to health and longevity.

His views on protein is dependent on the context of the stage of development of the person. A growing person needs plenty of animal protein that is rich in methionine and cysteine (as well as other essential proteins), as they are much needed for growth. But when a person has matured, and is no longer growing structure, he needs methionine, cysteine, and tryptophan much less, as these amino acids in large quantities, are often involved in creating more stress and aging. Instead, he favors glycine, which is found in gelatin or collagen, which helps preserve the structure in a mature person. He also believes less protein is needed in nutrition for mature individuals, though more is recommended for growth for children and adolescents and growing adults.

@holyshineball

Eating Peaty is a very inexact descriptor to begin with. It doesn't really tell me what you are eating when eating Peaty that would cause hemorrhoids

@CrumblingCookie said in Oxalobacter formigens after guts nuked by antibiotics. Sources? Possibilities?:

@yerrag I appreciate your taking time and thoughts to reply on my issue.

I suppose the pinnacle of internalized cell-wall-deficient pathogens would be pseudo-Crohns, i.e. Mycobacterium Avium Comple (MAC). As far as I understand, that's very difficult to diagnose, however, only by wary application of histopathologic methods on biopsies taken from the right spots in the GI tract - if those can be reached at all.

Yes, I've thought of fungal forms but at least as far as "true" fungi are concerned, there was nothing detectable in my stools: No substantial amount of candida strains were detectable.
Nor any of the typically recognized GI pathogens (by multiplex PCR).
So I have no suspects in specific pathogens.

I doubt you would go far using standard lab procedures to identify pathogens. I stopped relying on these labs that have the appearance of being; thorough, but their methods are archaic and leave us with false negatives and false positives. I would rather go with my guesswork. But truth be told, the medical standard does not care to use live blood analysis, and lose out plenty of detail in identifying fungal strains.

I would rather upgrade microscope so it is capable of darkfield microscopy so I can learn something relevant and practical and useful, than rely on outdated microbiological theory and diagnostics that is part and parcel of the current medical system.

I'll give some days of oral turpentine a go. As I subjectively recall that stuff really diffuses into every capillary and I deem it worth a try.

It's worth a shot.

@yerrag said:

Of course, there is the use of fecal transplants but this is one I would consider only out of desperation. I would rather that I share a glass of water with my pet cat or dog, in the hope that I can get some of the bacteria from them. But if the bacteria I want is an obligated anaerobe, it would be hard to obtain that bacteria this way.

I found out that finding obligate anaerobes, pairing them up with symbiotic strains and training them to become somewhat oxygen-tolerant for increased survival and transplanation falls into the coined term of "next-generation probiotics".
There's no availability to be expected anytime soon. It's all in-vitro and animal research.

Stool transplants aside maybe the only way to get back those crucial anaerobes is to drink water straight from wild, clean streams and to eat fresh, raw fruits and vegetables taken from healthy soils with has not been fertilized with manure.
I.e. produce from a idyllic, healthy, original off-the-grid life.

I'll go look for the best I can find in fresh, "dirty" (soil attached) root vegetables to eat in a raw state without much cleaning up.
The likelihood's high I'll just catch a serious enteral pathogen if I followed that approach with above-ground vegetables like salads. The anaerobes ought to be below ground, in the soil, of course.

Right!

I learned that if you wanted to make sourdough bread it is easy to get the starter by exposing leftover rice wash to the air for a few days, and come up with a starter culture of lactobacillus to make the sourdough.

If you put this wash in the middle of a forest that is pristine, the starter culture would be far more diverse in the strains of lactobacillus and other microbes.

And I wonder if this would a good way to get the strain of anaerobe you are looking for.

The only article I could find on this approach is this one (I find it's a good study):
The edible plant microbiome: evidence for the occurrence of fruit and vegetable bacteria in the human gut
https://doi.org/10.1080/19490976.2023.2258565
Unfortunately, the number-coded fruit&veg of that study are not further described in the supplemental material.
It's very interesting that they found a qualitative average of 2% of the excreted human microbiome to be identical with the bacteria present in and on eaten fruit&veg. The authors say that it can be up to 13% of the whole bacterial diversity attributable to eaten plants.
Those bacteria present in plant foods definitely settle in the human gut.

That's also interesting.

@Rah1woot said in RFK Jr. Officially Nominated for HHS Secretary.:

@yerrag

Just bad that Hitler got poor intelligence fed by UK that Russia would attack Germany and that's why Germany attacked Russia preemptively.

I'll download it but I prefer reading Mein Kampf over it lol.

I am puzzled by this. You are aware that Hitler declares his intent to invade the USSR in Mein Kampf (published in 1925), right? Or did we not read the same Mein Kampf?

I didn't read Mein Kampf yet, but you should realize writing your strategy in a book for all to read is quite stupid of Hitler, and he wasn't that.

When did Peat ever put fat in equivalent weight as carbs in a putative "Peat Diet?" I say putative because Peat vehemently denies there is such a thing as a Ray Peat diet in an email exchange I had with him. Yet it can't be helped when the tendency of most people is to categorize in pigeon boxes than to deal with the nuance of nutrition customized to the situational context of each individual.

@Mauritio said in Thymus health:

@yerrag yeah right and didn't they give cortisone to calm the cytokine storm for COVID ?

was it to calm the cytokine storm as a way to dampen Inflammation? I just know cortisone is used as an anti-inflammatory but don't know the mechanism.

@Rah1woot

I feel that being erect and well-postured is no different from having good materials used in constructing a building.

When I finished a year of taking therapeutic magnesium, with the intent of beefing up my magnesium stores for good bowel movement without relying on eating fiber (which I had always relied on pre-Peat), and which isn't good as fiber breeds bacteria that produces serotonin for bowel movement - I noticed it seemed natural and effortless for me to stand straight (like the way Ronald Reagan would stand, for I admired his bearing).

Together with having good calcium sources in what I eat, as well as magnesium sources, especially in well cooked leaves, I found that the body would more easily support itself .

Weston Price would observe the good structure of tribal people as well. They have a natural good posture, and they don't go to fashion modeling school to walk like models would.

I had bad posture growing up. And by some twist of fate, I met a car accident and I was laid to recover in a hospital for a month, with a minor fracture at my thoracic. I was put on a cast for 3 months after being released, and was told I have to do a daily backstretch exercise to develop back muscles to further give support to the spine, weakened by the minor fracture. All these I went through and did, and my posture improved. But I don't wish a car accident on anyone, and I recommend good nutrition instead, especially with calcium and magnesium. I'll throw in the other electrolytes for good measure.

@Kilgore said in RFK Jr. Officially Nominated for HHS Secretary.:

@yerrag Here you go. Written in 1936. So far I haven't seen many people actually reading it. Seen many who planned to "expose the joos" by reading it, but they haven't gone further than buying nice looking volumes and putting them on their shelf . https://annas-archive.org/md5/931e805bb813ef565a55fc881905f14d

@Kilgore said in RFK Jr. Officially Nominated for HHS Secretary.:

@yerrag Here you go. Written in 1936. So far I haven't seen many people actually reading it. Seen many who planned to "expose the joos" by reading it, but they haven't gone further than buying nice looking volumes and putting them on their shelf . https://annas-archive.org/md5/931e805bb813ef565a55fc881905f14d

Thanks. I wonder if the Joos could write a Joo version of the bible they would also write a very whitewashed version of the Talmud. How much of this translation would have many omissions that would make a classified 'in the interest of national security' document look pale in comparison?

Thanks though. I'll download it but I prefer reading Mein Kampf over it lol. Just how much of recent history would I listen to if the professor were Ivy League and either Joo or a white front?

@Mauritio said in RFK Jr. Officially Nominated for HHS Secretary.:

It's also a nice move of synchronicity that at the same day trump was elected our
left-green German government collapsed. Wish we had guys like the US in the pipeline, but it doesn't look good.

Russia and Germany together would be a juggernaut. Just bad that Hitler got poor intelligence fed by UK that Russia would attack Germany and that's why Germany attacked Russia preemptively. That led to Germany's defeat during WW2.

@cs3000 said in Thymus health:

might be why you see elevated neutrophil:lymphocyte ratio in health problems

I always have high neutrophil:lymphocyte ratio 70:20 but have very good immunity, being very resistant to respiratory diseases such as the flu (and COVID) but maybe this keeps my acquired immune system from being overactive;

but my chronic low grade infection and my having heavy metal toxicity disposes my phagocytic cells (neutrophils and macrophages) to be overactive, and my immune system always being on an alert state helps keep my immune system primed;

but this seem to have a downside as an underactive acquired immune system seems to make me develop more cysts and keloids where the inability of my lymphocytes to kill certain microbes makes the body develop fibrous walls to isolate and wrap these microbes and form cysts, but these cysts are benign though

@sharko said in Glucose loading cures everything?:

Experimenting and collecting evidence, cases and reactions is extremely important, but I would recommend continuing to try to build the logic according to the bioenergetic approach and not try to reinvent the wheel. It won't go well for sure...

Well said. I think what all this thread so far has proven is has all along been implicitly stated in Peat's attitude towards sugar.

That hypoglycemia is much more stressful and dangerous than hyperglycemia.

That depriving the body of sugar is a sure way of keeping stem cells in the pancreas from differentiating into beta cells that produce insulin (and maybe glucagon).

That the brain and red blood cells are so much needing of sugar that being low on sugar easily leads to destruction of neurons and red blood cells, and yet doctors have no idea what they are bedeviling when they say sugar is bad.

OTOH, the body is not as much stressed from having high blood sugar because it has mechanisms or safety valves to deal with it such as in triggering insulin secretion to signal the liver to convert excess sugar to fats, as well as to inhibit metabolic processes such as lipolysis and proteolysis so as to keep the body from having to produce sugar where it's not needed nor from releasing fats to compete for substrates in metabolizing sugar for energy.

It also allows for the polyol pathway to convert glucose to fructose when the blood sugar level is very high, as the body has ways to metabolize fructose more readily than it allows for glucose.

When there is still very high blood sugar, sugar gets to be excreted in urine and this dumping of excess sugar in the urine at least keeps the body protected from runaway sugar levels.

Because of glucose being so bedeviled by stupid 'by the book's mainstream doctors hypnotized by medical schools on wrong narratives to the point of absurdity, even quack brain doctors such as Dr. Aymen can sell books to bestseller status on sugar being evil, even while all along nothing about the brain has changed. It has always been dependent on sugar to survive.

It is comical indeed that it has to take another brain doctor, Dr. Stephens, to come out with the 'discovery' that glucose is good, to such extent that it has become revolutionary to load on glucose.

Yet I can't help but stand in the background in disbelief while Dr. Stephens says that he is 100% successful with his glucose loading protocol. For sugar to be utilized, one needs oxygen to burn it. And not all people have what it takes to provide that oxygen to enable full mitochondrial respiration. Such as people having hypoxemia, or people having hypoxia due to poor tissue oxygenation due to low CO2 and high lactic acid.

@Samyo

Likely with a lot of toxins unable to come out fecally, your skin becomes an outlet for these toxins. It will give you allergies. Maybe @Kvirion's ,iirc) successful experience of using activated charcoal on the affected skin would help you.

I once had constipation similar to yours and was sure in my case it was something I ate in the form of pork not cooked well that gave me trichinosis.

I took a small amount of copper acetate and overnight the constipation was resolved.

Not sure if your cause is similar, but I was sure I wasn't deficient in magnesium.

@Kilgore No, as it is written in Aramaic as I understand it. And as far as my limited understanding goes, if is not for Gentile eyes as what it says and teaches makes of Gentiles as animals. It would show Talmudists to be the real supremacists and entitled and righteously discriminating towards all Gentiles.

@samson

Taking dietary calcium isn't the first thing I would do if I were hypothyroid, as the calcium added will just get into your cells and tissues, and worsen internal calcification, which is a primary cause of kidney calcification and fibrosis, if there is such a diagnosis.

But the usual method of using serum and urine creatinine (and plugging in sex, age, and race) to determine an estimated kidney filtration rate isn't science as much as it is medical engineering along the lines of the much derided financial engineering taught in Ivy League schools by conniving bastards masquerading as professors and adopted by the AMA.

If you wanted to get a better idea of your kidney filtration rate, just collect a 24hr urine sample in a jug and bring it to a lab to testing for 24hr creatinine clearance and multiply the results to compensate for the creatinine produced by the kidneys. This is far more accurate as it's easy to see how ludicrous it is to get an eGFR when being older and being male and being of a certain race automatically lowers your GFR.

Iwould first take a creatinine clearance test to establish a baseline, as well as well as serum and ,,urine creatinine, serum PTH, total serum vitamin D, ionized serum calcium. And then get these measures of acid base balance: breath rate (bpm, to be used as a proxy for arterial blood gas, which is both painful and expensive), and urine and saliva testing using Hydrion pH test strips to determine your acid base balance status (search my old posts on RPF). As well as serum anion costing of sodium, potassium, bicarbonate and chloride.

If you are acidic, which is more likely, you will have to first make yourself balanced. By breathing carbogen as much as you can (preferably as you sleep) so that you bring your body stores of CO2 up, as CO2 will greatly help your pH levels go to healthy levels, being that a balanced pH is necessary to begin the process of getting the various systems in your body to work in harmony, in a virtuous cycle, without which you will be stuck instead in a stressful cycle, better known as a vicious cycle.

Without setting this stage first, all other succeeding therapy will be ineffective and akin to forever fighting small fires with endless intervention.

For sure, this is just the start. More to come.

@Kilgore

This is as close as it gets since Jesus to bring Jews towards a new epoch, with love based on an internal conscience towards all men. Instead of one based on consanguinity and on the conscienceless rule of law, which the outdated Jewish Talmudist religion holds on to tenaciously with its hypocritical Saducees and Pharisees blessing and leading them. Ultimately, the Talmudists are cursed by this priestly caste and the sooner this caste is cast to Gehenna the better for all Jewry and for mankind. Enmity and strife can be easily replaced by brotherly love.

I've heard about the benefits of getting vitamin B3 thru its delivery via smoking. I heard that when tobacco is smoked by lighting it up with the embers of charcoal, it delivers the vitamin much better than if a lighter, with its yellow flame, were used. I suspect, or rather, I speculate, the burn quality may be better using the embers to light up the tobacco allows for a slower burn rate where the air fuel ratio leads to a more complete burn that produces more carbon dioxide, which Peaters know is beneficial. At the same time, there is less carbon monoxide produced, which can range in effect from stressful to toxic.

I recently bought an electronic incense burner, which saves me the trouble of lighting up charcoal, which is a time consuming process. Maybe I just haven't found the right technique, but starting a charcoal burn has been frustrating to me.

But the electronic incense burner has been easy to use, and so far I've used it with satisfaction burning frankincense resins. I can set it to burn with a timer built-in, and it can be set across a range of temperatures.

I've begun to use it also on dry white sage leaves, and the smell it gives brings a calmness that is fitting for meditation. Oh, in case you were wondering about the frankincense, I'm using it to keep my lungs from getting wet and interfering with my breathing.

I can buy tobacco leaves online and thought that instead of rolling the leaves to smoke thru the mouth, I could also burn the leaves as incense. With a gentle setting with the use of low heat, I may find myself breathing the incense and be enjoying while getting my vitamin B3 fix.

But before I get started, I'd like to ask if there are any gotchas I need to be aware of. Thanks .

@Mauritio said in Thymus health:

COVID destroys the thymus gland. The thymus expresses ACE2 which facilitates viral entry, so ACE2 inhibitors might help here.

Also interesting that disease severity correlated with thymus atrophy.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36758836/

Could it be that very often the first line of treatment in respiratory distress involves the use of Budenoside, or cortisol, in respiratory therapy? And cortisol weakens the immune system by reducing the size of the thymus gland?