Posts made by yerrag

I'm posting screenshots of each statement in the article which are patently false. But I will invite members to explain why each of them is false.

@Corngold

This is a hit job on Ray Peat.

I took the pains of reading through it. This is a very skewed interpretation of Ray Peat

At best, author picks up wrong ideas from the most clueless members of RPF and then claims these ideas are Ray's.

I will rebut later by the many screenshots of different sections of that very tiresomely long article.

Too many screenshots so I'll just do it screenshot by screenshot.

That piece has no iota of rationality in its criticism, and does a poor job of being accurate.

@Mauritio said in Glycine is an anti-biotic, restores sensitivity to antibiotics:

In light of this thread, the findings of this old thread by haidut are even more interesting.

https://lowtoxinforum.com/threads/gut-bacteria-overgrowth-drives-cocaine-addiction-glycine-can-reverse-it.48285/

I'm puzzled. How can glycine be helpful if it feeds the bacteria? Aren't we supposed to deprive the bacteria of its food source to have an antibiotic effect such that the bacteria would just not be able to multiply and become a thriving colony by being deprived of its food source? How is providing more gelatin going to help?

@Njegos

Keep the air on the low end of tolerable humidity levels, ie if the tolerable range is 40 to 60, then set a dehumidifier to give you 40 percent humidity.

Also helps to have a good fine HEPA filter.

And then have a good essential oil diffuser with a good antifungal blend such as those with esters such as lavender, Clary sage, geranium, and Roman chamomile. But be certain to check that your pets are not sensitive to them.

You can try spraying copper acetate solution into the walls and see if you can kill the molds.

@S-Holmes

Yes, reliance on a messiah is what makes us helpless, inasmuch as we understand learned helplessness the world has long been on a learned helplessness mode thanks to religion saying so. Not that I fault religion for even if there was only spirituality to guide us we may still have to let things be as there are natural astral cycles that we cannot change by our efforts, just as our fantasy films show the futility of going backwards in time to change the future

We can only meaningfully affect our immediate periphery in time and space and beyond that it is a matter of que sera sera.

@onliest said in What do you guys think of Trump now that he won:

@Rah1woot The year is one! Heil Lucifer! The year is one! Heil Trump!

Very esoteric Christianity!

@Mauritio

I was thinking though in terms of a biological enabler that makes the glycine into molecules that causes a change toward a high GSSG/GSH ratio, to make it oxidative enough to kill bacteria. In the same way that neutrophils and macrophages would make ROS by respiratory burst action acting as phagocytes.

@Mauritio And not only that, but cortisol destroys the thymus gland and the thymus gland is where t-lymphocytes mature, and this has the effect of lowering immunity.

@AlphaCog

Given that leaves are rich in calcium, it makes sense that drinking tea helps with reducing the risk of osteoporosis. However, I think that just drinking tea regularly, as in all the time, may not give us all the daily calcium intake needed for meeting our daily calcium RDA.

It helps a lot though, but we still need calcium through milk and cheese consumption, as well as eating plenty of well-cooked green leaves as part of our meals.

It also helps if we emulate our cats and dogs in eating bones, but given that it's highly impractical as bones are tough, we can also consider eating anchovies and sardines where the bones are softened by cooking or simply fine enough that they're easier to chew on.

@Mauritio

This makes the case stronger that a carnivorous diet makes us age more, doesn't it?

@nofreepeat

What is it you think you know about diabetes? Hard to assume.

But to start. Type 1 diabetes is not inherited. It can be cured. The more you avoid sugar, the more your body won't produce insulin.

My own hot take (since I never had type 1 diabetes) is taking insulin injections will keep you type 1 diabetic just as the more you wear glasses the more your eyesight deteriorates. Insulin is overrated. You don't rely on it to absorb sugar as potassium is what does that. Insulin only lowers blood sugar by signalling the liver to convert blood sugar to fats, among many other things it does.

People talk about insulin sensitivity without really knowing what it means. It just means so many things to many people.

Imho, insulin can be considered a stress hormone. The less of it the better, along Peat's definition of what a stress hormone is.

Blood sugar control is more voodoo than science. The science is simple if not for the medical establishment have their own wrong takes on it to feed their pharma parasitic corporations, especially as they are bent on making Ozempic another blockbuster drug.

@dan-dominic

Yes. I couldn't sleep lol night

@Lejeboca Thanks a lot!

@dapose Agreed. There is meaning and purpose. He is driven and that allows his cells and tissues to rally and rearrange to give substance to that will.

@Androsclerozat said in Donald Trump defies the laws of aging. A fat, garbage food eating insomniac conquered the world at 78 (politics aside):

Off topic: With Yandex I found a study where finnish scientists were against exercise, and it felt impossible with Google.

Can you share that? I'm interested in why Peat doesn't exercise, and I do little of it as well now as an experiment I began more than 12 years ago.

I have kept my weight, maintained the muscle tone I developed when I exercised. A lot of it is due to my having good metabolism, which I did not have before as when I struggled with low blood sugar. I find that having good metabolism burns energy adequately that I do not need external metabolism to burn excess energy. And that excess is further diminished when there is a lot of brain activity as when I read and think and write a lot.

@Mauritio

Nice to see you making the effort connecting the dots.

I've been wondering why in one of his last newsletters Ray would say that when the body is in the process of drawing calcium from the bones, in an osteoclastic process, it cannot be at the same time in a full optimal mitochondrial respiratory mode where among other things CO2 is being produced. I am paraphrasing a lot here but the idea is that calcium balance plays a vital role in enabling mitochondrial metabolism. Which is why these factors need to be considered instead of just reaching out for thyroid supplementation, which many tend to do with poor results when taking thyroid without considering other factors that affect metabolism.

I was hoping Ray would explain more in subsequenr newsletters, as I felt he wasn't doing as much new research into publications at that point, and he was connecting more dots from his prior research over the years. And the best from him was yet to come. But his passing overtook him.

Do you have any more thoughts on why calcium and it's balance, with the presence of osteoblastic activity, would favor mitochondrial respiration?

@gg12 he can choose do do what's right but Kamala isn't that. she is an order taker. but trump is so much indentured to Israel that he sees maga in terms of MIGA interwoven with it.

@wester130

It matters little if the patsies were boomers, gen x, Gen y or Gen Z. Look at the bigger picture so you don't miss the detail.