ex-digital nomad, ray peat, functional patterns (HBS1), "investoor", coke drinking health freak
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Another data point for going as natural as feasible.
How many people are scrubbing their entire bodies with scented soap then applying perfumes and interfering with this process.
I was shocked the other day at a public swimming bath by the sea, it was morning and full of people swimming, and this is Cyprus cleanest waters in the Mediterranean. I saw person after person get out and go to the showers with their own body wash and cover their entire bodies. What the fuck do you think you’re cleaning off? And the irony is these conventional washes are full of awful ingredients and scents.
A bizarro world where people come out of the sea all clean and then soil themselves with chemical products.
A baby can apparently feel dad’s presence without seeing him or hearing his voice. In a new Science Advances study, babies interacted with a completely unfamiliar man while either their father’s body odor or a clean shirt was placed nearby. When dad’s scent was there, the baby’s brain became more synchronized with the stranger’s brain, and the babies showed more positive excitement and engagement. The researchers describe it almost like the baby was able to “invoke” the father’s presence even though he wasn’t actually in the room. AND the more involved the father was in childcare, the stronger the boost in brain synchrony associated with his scent.
There are studies showing men find women more attractive if they’re injured or incapacitated in some way.
A lot of women fantasize about rape and the idea of being incapacitated, tied up, etc.
Two sides of the same coin, life is complicated.
A lot of stories on Fesshole are so obviously made up.
Then you see one like this that is just so obvious it really happened.
Maybe the true AI Turing test will be when it can tell the difference.
Life happens outdoors.
I think a simple metric for health will become how many hours did you spend outside (including in shade) each day.
Being more indoors, switching to LED lights, making glass more energy efficient. All of these things have cost us metabolically.
This new pre-print from Glen Jeffery, Bob Fosbury, Scott Zimmerman, and myself proposes a new hypothesis on why the lack of sunlight in our lives has led to metabolic problems. It is observationally backed up with rigorous studies which are already published.
Here, however, a grand unifying theory involving multiple silos (astrophysics, quantum chemistry, geosciences, lifesciences, and human biology) converge together to make this hypothesis possible: Broad-range long-wavelength light (found in sunlight) is necessary to properly process electron transport in the mitochondria and the lack leads to metabolic disorders. If the hypothesis is correct, it has vast consequences on the direction we are going.
The bottom line: get outside for the benefit of your health.
biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
Might sound lame but I’d love a wearable that tells me this. Modernity is trying to force you inside at every moment; would be great to have a counter to this. Like I no longer wear a step tracker but in the past when I first did it was what woke me up to how little I was walking
If you’re still wondering why this crazy Ray Peat guy continues to grow in influence it’s stuff like this. He is repeatedly vindicated every month or two with evidence for ideas he had written about decades ago.
Intermittingly inhaling a high dose of carbon dioxide seems to remove the proteins amyloid and tau, which are implicated in Alzheimer's disease, from the brain by boosting its glymphatic system newscientist.com/article/258…
Right away some neurotic segment of the population should just never use sleep trackers.
However for those of us who are somewhat sane, the best use is barbelling it. Use it for a 2-4 weeks, 2-4x times a year to keep yourself honest, and work on anything that needs improving.
These kind of anecdotes freak me out because we know that GLP1s don't just affect appetite, they also modify behavior/motivation/addiction, and likely many other things.
We have zero long term data on potential permanent behavioral changes.
Your Gerolsteiner is *probably* contaminated
Ran a test on myself and my husband since we have the same controls to test the whole glass water bottles also have microplastics:
I love sparkling mineral water, it’s an indulgence of mine. So before our Total Toxic burden test, I drank ~ 4 of them the day before, my husband who lives in same house and eats the same and has same exposures, drank our RO filtered water in our glass cups.
Result: My BPA high, his low.
I tried this because on my last TTB test my BPA was high for the first time on the results, and it had coincided with me drinking more mineral water from glass bottles.
My conclusion: the best option to keep BPA low is high quality filtered water (RO and remineralize) second best if you can only choose between glass and plastic, I’m still choosing glass.
BTW BPA half life is very short, so it’s not stored BPA or anything, the test was a show of recent exposure.
The case for Functional Patterns continues to mount.
In a world of everyone taking shortcuts, it can be tough taking the long hard route, but there is no quick fix to a functional pain-free symmetric body.
Recently on a podcast @ChrisMasterjohn dropped his latest diet and supplement regimen:
He is consuming 150g net carbs, 160g protein, rest fat for total of 2815 calories per day.
Foods:
115g US Wellness Organ Blend (75% Lean Ground Beef with Heart, Kidney, Liver)
115g Ground Beef
50g White Rice
104g Nixtamalized Corn Tortillas
4-5 egg yolks
Potatoes
Tomatoes
Peppers
Broccoli
Olive Oil
“Quite a bit of cheese”
150g Heavy Cream
100g Strawberries
Supplements:
8g Creatine
600mcg Molybdenum
600mcg K2
100mg CoQ10 (Ubiquinol)
1 capsule food-based Vitamin C
3.3g Cod Liver Oil
🚨 New #FeldmanProtocol Dropping
special guest @ChrisMasterjohn
🌿 How do seed oils damage cells over decades?
📊 Why do short trials make seed oils look safe?
🔬 Why did Steinberg quietly ditch corn oil?
🧬 What makes modified LDL truly dangerous?
🧪 How does pressure inside the gut drive Crohn's?
⚡ Why do LDL receptors need ATP to function?
🩸 What could make native LDL harmless to macrophages?
🔁 How could mean reversion corrupt drug trials?
🧫 Why does cancer rewire the extracellular matrix?
Hey @ChrisMasterjohn thanks for detailing your current setup; love to see examples nutrient maxed diets.
The one thing I expected to see but didn't was a collagen/gelatin source; did you just forget to mention it or you aren't currently eating/supplementing?
FWIW Cyprus is in the EU but has ubiquitous air conditioning; every home and business. Bring the heat 🔥
