Hello, I'm seeking the truth, not to argue. I just want tips on modifying my diet which I thought was perfect. Ray Peat's is so different that I can't ignore his research. To put things simply, he recommends a lot of sugar and not much fiber, my diet is high fiber low sugar. The staples of my diet are green vegetables, legumes and fortified cereal or oats with lean meat on occasion. Ray Peat's is pretty much the opposite cutting out green veggies, grains and beans - all fiber.
I can go without grains but to say that veggies and beans are bad is too extreme for me to take seriously, and that I should eat ice cream and cola instead is weird but It's not unbelievable. This is why I can't dismiss Ray Peat, I need to know if I can still at least eat veggies and legumes (maybe even grains). Maybe Peat says they're "bad" but are they so bad I can't eat them or just "okay" to eat?
My problems with his diet:
First problem, I'm allergic to most shellfish. If I eat them my throat swells up and I go to the hospital. beans-veggies-grains don't make me feel worse after eating them. I think Peat said not to eat leafy greens because they have some poison in them that's bad for the hormones and metabolism. He also says that cooking them well makes them okay. The problem with that is he's saying the staple to my diet is bad because it has 1 poison in it that's bad for people with hyperthyroidism, but some of his staples are bad for me and I'm an athletic young male. Many people can't eat dairy, others who are diabetic can't even eat sugar - in my diet I restrict dairy and sugar because I think they do nothing but bad.
Second problem, I'm concerned with aging well and health but Ray Peat seems to be very viscerally fat and using a lot of supplements, like pregnenolone which made him look much younger than he really is, so who's to say It's his diet that makes Peat look so young and not the pregnenolone? If you need supplements then is it really a good diet?
Third, eating so much sugar must be bad for your oral health.
4th, Omega-6 and polyunsaturated fat is unavoidable, even in green vegetables and carrots. Not sure you can detoxify from it, but you can stop eating oils and junk food that everyone agrees is bad.
And though not so important, a lot of the foods on the food chart like carrots, ice cream, cola... had to be made by humans, they weren't available to primitive humans.
Ray Peat's advice seems sound, he's got a lot of credentials and isn't selling anything, he's trustworthy. I just don't want to eat Ray Peat diet yet because of the reasons I stated, but I'll definitely cut down on PUFA's, Omega 6 and oils completely.
I can go without grains but to say that veggies and beans are bad is too extreme for me to take seriously, and that I should eat ice cream and cola instead is weird but It's not unbelievable. This is why I can't dismiss Ray Peat, I need to know if I can still at least eat veggies and legumes (maybe even grains). Maybe Peat says they're "bad" but are they so bad I can't eat them or just "okay" to eat?
My problems with his diet:
First problem, I'm allergic to most shellfish. If I eat them my throat swells up and I go to the hospital. beans-veggies-grains don't make me feel worse after eating them. I think Peat said not to eat leafy greens because they have some poison in them that's bad for the hormones and metabolism. He also says that cooking them well makes them okay. The problem with that is he's saying the staple to my diet is bad because it has 1 poison in it that's bad for people with hyperthyroidism, but some of his staples are bad for me and I'm an athletic young male. Many people can't eat dairy, others who are diabetic can't even eat sugar - in my diet I restrict dairy and sugar because I think they do nothing but bad.
Second problem, I'm concerned with aging well and health but Ray Peat seems to be very viscerally fat and using a lot of supplements, like pregnenolone which made him look much younger than he really is, so who's to say It's his diet that makes Peat look so young and not the pregnenolone? If you need supplements then is it really a good diet?
Third, eating so much sugar must be bad for your oral health.
4th, Omega-6 and polyunsaturated fat is unavoidable, even in green vegetables and carrots. Not sure you can detoxify from it, but you can stop eating oils and junk food that everyone agrees is bad.
And though not so important, a lot of the foods on the food chart like carrots, ice cream, cola... had to be made by humans, they weren't available to primitive humans.
Ray Peat's advice seems sound, he's got a lot of credentials and isn't selling anything, he's trustworthy. I just don't want to eat Ray Peat diet yet because of the reasons I stated, but I'll definitely cut down on PUFA's, Omega 6 and oils completely.