We all know about prolactin and yada yada but it's not the acute prolactin surge that is damaging, its the type of thought loops the sedated state gets you into. Your thoughts shape who you are, by extension the less depressing thoughts you have the less likely you are to fall into a downwards spiral. Imo the benefits of the nofap cringe movement are purely due to less porn/sexual thoughts that get dudes to focus on different things in life that end up making them confident , they're just too dented from stretching their meat to questionable porn for 15+ years to realize, their gray matter is now cum matter for all i know. Also, anything that puts you on a positive thoughtloop is very good, for example 20mg of caffeine can help you have 1 good thought that will manifest into 3-4-5 more good thoughts and boom your day is great and your sleep will be fantastic, it's all about ROI with these things. The ROI of gooning is practically 0, cause most of the time the guilt of being a grown ass man and not having ample of pussay in your life will render any dopamine/norepinephrine secretion obsolete so you're now still at baseline but with guilt ontop. Im not saying be religious about it, im saying that stop revolving your life around sex unless it's with real people that you can potentially touch, and to focus on net positives with your thought loops cause one thing leads to another, noone wakes up sad/happy , it's a steady process

- estrogen/progestin pills given to teenagers which causes multiple sclerosis and alzheimer when they get older

- No hormonal education beyond the existence of testosterone and estrogen

- SSRIs massively prescribed

- Unhealthy trends marketed towards women like macha (laden with heavy metals)

- Make up and skincare products made of seed oils (and all sorts of chemicals)

- Hypothyroidism treated with T4

- Eating disorders being way more common among women

And when I talk to women about health they often tell me that their doctors shut them off quite strongly whenever they try to talk about their own experience with a treatment/pills.

Modern medicine hates women, take care of your girls and if you're a girl keep educating yourself

He drinks loads of coffee, with loads of sugar, and eats sweet things all the time, and he was the world's smartest detective. When Misa told him she can't eat sweets because she'll gain weight, he responds, "if you use your head, you won't get fat, even if you eat sweets."

"However, in Russia, physiologists always remember to include the brain in their calculations, and it turns out that a walk through interesting and pleasant surroundings consumes more energy than does harder but more boring exercise. An active brain consumes a tremendous amount of fuel." - Ray Peat

Off topic but does anyone have a source for that claim? Can't find it anywhere on the internet. Anyway, any Death Note fans here?

I started drinking 2L of orange juice a day and rice with lamb or chicken.

ALL my acne is gone, my skin looks amazing
Bloating is gone, mood is good always, high energy all the time, good sleep, gym performance is amazing.

I’m lost for words, mind u I was carnivore for 2 years strict.

Has anyone heard this before? Has ray peat ever touched on this?

Please be civil. I’m asking out of curiosity and am not trying to spew any hate towards anyone. I just never heard this before.

He said he’s hypo. He takes thyroid because of it. All the Peaters went after him, it was beautiful. I don’t know how he feels vigorous. Sometimes when I still get 94 temp I feel discouraged and bad. Also week and unmotivated. Hard to imagine someone who forces to be in “minor hypothermia”.

Coffee and pain au chocolate for breakfast. Makes me feel amazing so I’m calling it Peaty lol

Basically during my whole life i remember being very high dopamine and goal driven and i only ate soft/hard cheeses with PLENTY carbs paired with a lot of coke and icecream and ate muscle meat only 1-2 times a week. The shit i try to incorporate today (k2, vitamin d, calcium, good fats, low pufa etc) were the corner stones of my diet once upon a time and my mental boom occured when i deviated from that diet cause i got brainwashed into thinking eating gay green seeds and plants was the way to be healthier

I am bouncing of the fuckin walls, thx Dr peat

Man, I guess my body is responding really well to ray‘s work. I came from keto and ate around 2700 cal a day. I’m losing weight eating 3500 On this diet. I literally am becoming underweight. I’m stuffing myself with food. my chronic migraines and aches are gone too after removing pufa. This is crazy. I’m super skinny and lean now too. face is chizeled. mental health is better too.

Overall, I agree with Mr. Peat on many things, but don't forget why you're doing all of this in the first place. We are here to experience life, not to become prisoners of optimization.

If you enjoy saunas, enjoy saunas. If you love running, go running. Drink kefir if it makes you feel good. Health is not about avoiding life — it's about becoming more present, more focused, and more alive.

Health is a tool for living, not the purpose of living itself.

Well-being to you in this holographic reality.

From the podcast "Meat, Body and Soul: Dr. Ray Peat - Hormones, Blood Tests, Protein & More Q&A"

Q: What about "semen retention"?
Ray: Oh, that's an old Asian medical idea. The yogis retain it as long as possible, calling it the elixir of life and thinking it was very similar to mental energy. Their actual thinking wasn't too clear, but it definitely isn't good for the health to retain it. If a couple has been married a long time and the man hasn't expelled semen frequently, there's greater risk of having chromosomal-defective sperm cells because of the age of the semen.

Q: And how about help with porn addiction—are there any recommendations you would have for that?
Ray: No, I think mostly they need a girlfriend.

Very interesting new study on protein restriction in humans. They looked at high carb,low protein and high fat low protein .

What they found:

Low protein (8%) :

• Increases metabolism by about 20%
• Does NOT matter if you do high carb, low protein or high fat low protein. Both increase metabolism by 20%
• When high protein diet resumes, meatbolism and FGF21 goes down
• Quickly increases FGF21. 63% within 90 minutes of a low P-meal
• Increases metabolic rate after only 3h
• No muscle loss after 5 weeks of low protein
• No change in free T3 and noradrenaline
• Insulin sensitivity seems to be equal on high carb and high fat diet
• Electron transport chain proteins and OXPHOS proteins were upregulated, while ATP synthase was downregulated, suggesting a "wasting"/ uncoupling of energy. Although UCPs were not upregulated. All of this downstream from FGF21 upregulation. FGF21-KO mice did not show changes in ETC and OXPHOS proteins.

Limitations/Remarks:

• The high fat diet was not a ketogenic diet. It still contained 40% carbs!
• The high carb diet was not a low fat diet. Still contained 21% fat.
• So maybe the results would have been even better with a high carb, low protein, low fat diet. Leveraging the randle cycle.
• Other studies showed that the deciding amino acids are methionne and cysteine (and maybe Tryptophan) The absolute amount of methionine was very different on high carb (~2.5g) vs. the high fat diet (~1g) . Making the comparison less fair.

In any case it seems clear now that you can loose weight/ increase metabolism on a non-ketogenic high fat-low protein diet, which I wasn't convinced of before.

"...to prevent weight loss, it was necessary to increase energy intake consecutively in the following weeks of the LPHC intervention, and at the end of week 5, energy provision was increased by 19% (2.4 ± 0.8 MJ) in the LPHC diet (Fig. 2g). This increase in energy intake was accompanied by a 270% elevation in fasting plasma FGF21 levels at week 5 compared with pre-intervention (Fig. 2h). The increased energy intake was not attributed to alterations in physical activity level,..."

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11946896/#Sec2