Jun 6, 2011 | Uncategorized |
I came across this term recently and almost fell out of my chair laughing. I think I was in a chair when I read it. Maybe I was laying down. Anyway, when I read the word it struck me. It sums up so many different phases that I’ve been through and countless delusions of low-carbers, vegans, and all kinds of health fanatics on the internet and in the real world. When I saw the word and its...
Jun 5, 2011 | Uncategorized |
You guys know I like food on the gourmet side of things. In fact, I did several videos making homemade meatballs from scratch and using it for Italian wedding soup, lasagna, and all kinds of stuff that I totally botched and unfortunately will not be able to post :( But I’m no stranger to the?absurdly simple, quick, painless, and foolproof – and that’s also typically what most...
Jun 1, 2011 | Uncategorized |
It’s time for the Ray Peat finale. Yeah I know, it’s a day late. I moved out of my apartment yesterday and didn’t have enough mojo left to work on it. Anyway, we’ll pick up where we left off in the last Peat article. If you know anything about Peat, know that he has a vendetta against polyunsaturated fat ? which could very well be his greatest scientific contribution...
May 27, 2011 | Uncategorized |
I don’t always have the answers, but boy do I love asking questions. And honestly, one of the most fascinating questions we can answer if we hope to understand modern disease is? ?Why is ?Western Disease? something that only humans and their pets experience?? Below I’ve listed what I think are some of the prime suspects ? representing a vast array of health ideologies. Feel free to...
May 26, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Intuitive eating ? which is best described as eating what you want, when you want, because you feel like eating it (with or without a ?damnit!) ? is a great concept. Sure, it has limitations. One is that superstimuli such as artificial sweeteners, flavor enhancers, and pornographically-delightful foods like chocolate, cupcakes, Mountain Dew, and potato chips often induce us to eat, not for...
May 24, 2011 | Uncategorized |
“Oxidation of sugar is metabolically efficient in many ways, including sparing oxygen consumption. It produces more carbon dioxide than oxidizing fat does, and carbon dioxide has many protective functions, including increasing Krebs cycle activity and inhibiting toxic damage to proteins. The glycation of proteins occurs under stress, when less carbon dioxide is being produced, and the...
May 23, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Warning all Vietnamese people! Ray Peat says that people in?countries that eat a lot of full-fat dairy products are lean, and that starch is more fattening than sugar and seems like the reason for the rising obesity rate in the United States. Put the rice down, and swap it out with Haagen Dazs ice cream or else you guys are gonna get fat! Sorry, but I had to go there. I visited Vietnam?in my...
May 20, 2011 | Uncategorized |
I didn’t want to give up on the Ray Peat topic altogether now. There is still a lot to be said. In fact, his lengthy article titled ?Glycemia, Starch, and Sugar in context? is a perfect article to deconstruct. It is full of many of Peat’s main philosophies about stress hormones, blood sugar regulation, metabolism, gelatin, polyunsaturated fat?? you name it. It’s all there in...
May 18, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Delving deeper into our conversation from yesterday,’the best overall discussion of how the reward centers in the human brain?work that I’ve found is?in this lengthy but informative’slideshow presentation on pornography addiction. Although it may not seem relevant, it certainly is. The presenter goes into great depth about?food as well, and how it ties in. While pornography...
May 17, 2011 | Uncategorized |
I’m spoiled. By spoiled I mean that my greatest luxury is that I can wake up in the morning and write about whatever the heck I want to write about. Having to write about Ray Peat all month? Well, drudgery has set in. I wanna talk about something that is interesting to me now ? like, today, and Ray Peat’s stances on starch and how it has caused the rise in obesity (is this a joke...
May 16, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Ray Peat doesn’t seem to be very fond of exercise. This is one area where he has opened up a huge gaping hole in the armor of his interpretation of science, hormones, and so forth. In fact, his brush off of exercise as being something that raises cortisol, growth hormone, and lactic acid and is therefore bad gives me reservations and hesitations about pretty much all of his work. To file...
May 14, 2011 | Uncategorized |
?Norm! Do you have a good article on your blog about cholesterol? My co-worker is afraid of cheese because of it?? ~Text message received Wednesday from my buddy from high school (we call each other Norm, which we used to shout at each other depending on who was more late to first period ? like the show Cheers ? no, we weren’t really the cool kids). In honor of Norm, and continuing with...
May 11, 2011 | Uncategorized |
?Now that our public health establishment has eliminated smoking from public places, maybe they can find a way to reduce stress and disease by removing morons from positions of power. ~Ray Peat Not sure what that first quote has to do with the thyroid exactly, but it is awesome. Dr. Ray does coincidentally rhyme with Dr. Dre. He sounds pretty gangsta in that quote. Check yo’self fools! If...
May 10, 2011 | Uncategorized |
?Protein, salt, thyroid, and progesterone happen to be thermogenic, increasing heat production and stabilizing body temperature at a higher level. ~Ray Peat If you know anything about Peat, you should know the basic 5 things that Peat feels are vital to stimulating the metabolism, increasing cellular metabolic rate and respiration, and improving health and extending the functional lifespan:...
May 9, 2011 | Uncategorized |
?One of my recurring objects of thought has been the slowness with which raw knowledge is assimilated. For example, I have been thinking about Broda Barnes’s work on the prevention of heart disease with thyroid extract. He did solve much of ‘the riddle of heart attacks,? but recent statements by the Heart Association show that the dominant forces in the health business haven’t...
May 8, 2011 | Uncategorized |
I was going to write about something motherly today, but then I started geeking out major on one of Ray Peat’s articles that I had not read before ? Epilepsy and Progesterone. It’s Mother’s Day-related no doubt, as the only mother I’m helping to celebrate the day with in person suffers severely from the condition ? to the point where she is not legally able to drive, and...
May 7, 2011 | Uncategorized |
?Vegetarians often notice temporary exhilaration when they stop eating meat, probably because their thyroid has been suppressed. But a more serious hypothyroid state often follows, from a low protein inadequate vegetarian diet. Low protein diets definitely interfere with the liver’s ability to detoxify estrogen and other stressors. ?A few years ago, most of the nutritional problems that I...
May 5, 2011 | Uncategorized |
I have already introduced one of Peat’s great quotes that illuminates a philosophy very near and dear to my heart ? and I assume to the hearts of many of the readers of this blog who enjoy the pursuit of health as an exploration instead of a regurgitation or defense of a limited viewpoint. ?Once we accept that knowledge is tentative, and that we are probably going to improve our knowledge...
May 4, 2011 | Uncategorized |
Howdy folks, we interrupt Ray May for this highly-anticipated guest blog post by none other than Brock Cusick, frequent 180 commenter, follower since the dawn of http://180degreehealth.com/, and author of the blog http://cusickonnutrition.blogspot.com/. While we can never expect any two people to have identical views, even when those two people grew up watching the movie...
May 3, 2011 | Uncategorized |
While we’ll be interrupting “Ray May” for a guest post by Brock Cusick later this week on the role of TXNIP in body weight and glucose regulation – today is the official start of Ray May. So kick back and let’s?eat some hay, sit by the bay, we just may, whaddya say? I asked the peanut gallery if they would be interested in a month of Ray Peat immersion, scrutiny,...
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