ineffable500
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Hello, thanks to all for creating a space for Ray Peat-related discussion. This is my first post on this board. These days, I don't use the internet frequently, and I spend a lot of my time working or doing other physical activity in the real world.
Ray Peat's dietary ideas have helped me with this, I can say without a doubt, based on my athletic energy and coordination (but said improvement is only most especially true if I have consumed lots of sugar within the last few hours). I am now on the "mountain" skiing or snowboarding most days since this winter season has begun in Winter Park, CO. Therefore, I live my life between 7500 feet and 12000 feet.
Last winter, I was on the raw animal products Primal Diet. My emotions were fairly stable though isolationist and I stayed warm, but it was a struggle to be so stringently strict, forcing myself to eat. I had to force myself to eat. However, now, on the Peat diet, I still do, and not even sugary things really taste all that good to me and I never crave/want to eat or drink anything. I don't have acute digestive discomfort, but often some tightness-type mild discomfort/fought-off nausea/aversion to eating, but not bloating.
... ... I've done a lot of edible clay, fulvic acid, aetheric waters, and other supplemental alchemy stuff like that.
Mainly, the interesting thing to me, why I'm writing, is that I seem to have too-low body fat. I've always been lean and reasonably muscular, and over the summer as I started on the Peat protocols, not much changed and I had more energy. But during the recent "mud season," I worked long days of construction while eating on average coffee with sugar (or medicinal mushroom tea with sugar and clay etc.), lots of OJ, raw grassfed cheese, potatoes with several tablespoons of coconut oil, and some meat.
I have taken a total of one or two cytomel pills split into microdoses. I've also done two phases of about a week or so where I took 25mg pills of DHEA, in order to reset my internal "set point" to be higher. The first DHEA time my knee arthritis went away and hasn't come back, even though now I don't even have any fat below my kneecaps!
I think the couple-weeks long period of 3-6 tbsp coconut oil/day really changed my cellular makeup (combined also with resetting my hormonal and thermogenic set-point with the cytomel, dhea, and consistent high sugar consumption). And now I seem to myself to be slightly hyperthyroid, maybe...: kindof slightly hyperreactive to foods, due to having no body fat reserves to buffer the influx of foreign material from the digestive system. Dependent on continual input of sugars for peak performance (but who isn't).
I feel a bit run-down and tired, but also, at the same time now, at the top of my game athletically and metabolically. Maybe my state is mostly dependent on motivation...but I do think my body fat is too low.
Clearly I've done a lot of dietary stuff "wrong" and "foolish things." Maybe it'll balance out in the end if I quit eating clay, coconut oil, decrease OJ, eat organic bananas, lots of eggs with melted cheese, ice cream, some meat, and maybe go back to coffee with sugar once I've gained a little bit of weight. Maybe some beer too.
I probably won't become an enthusiastic regular poster, but if anyone's had any similar experiences I'd be interested to hear if their body eventually recovered to a more stable--rather than competition-ready--level. Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed my story.
Ray Peat's dietary ideas have helped me with this, I can say without a doubt, based on my athletic energy and coordination (but said improvement is only most especially true if I have consumed lots of sugar within the last few hours). I am now on the "mountain" skiing or snowboarding most days since this winter season has begun in Winter Park, CO. Therefore, I live my life between 7500 feet and 12000 feet.
Last winter, I was on the raw animal products Primal Diet. My emotions were fairly stable though isolationist and I stayed warm, but it was a struggle to be so stringently strict, forcing myself to eat. I had to force myself to eat. However, now, on the Peat diet, I still do, and not even sugary things really taste all that good to me and I never crave/want to eat or drink anything. I don't have acute digestive discomfort, but often some tightness-type mild discomfort/fought-off nausea/aversion to eating, but not bloating.
... ... I've done a lot of edible clay, fulvic acid, aetheric waters, and other supplemental alchemy stuff like that.
Mainly, the interesting thing to me, why I'm writing, is that I seem to have too-low body fat. I've always been lean and reasonably muscular, and over the summer as I started on the Peat protocols, not much changed and I had more energy. But during the recent "mud season," I worked long days of construction while eating on average coffee with sugar (or medicinal mushroom tea with sugar and clay etc.), lots of OJ, raw grassfed cheese, potatoes with several tablespoons of coconut oil, and some meat.
I have taken a total of one or two cytomel pills split into microdoses. I've also done two phases of about a week or so where I took 25mg pills of DHEA, in order to reset my internal "set point" to be higher. The first DHEA time my knee arthritis went away and hasn't come back, even though now I don't even have any fat below my kneecaps!
I think the couple-weeks long period of 3-6 tbsp coconut oil/day really changed my cellular makeup (combined also with resetting my hormonal and thermogenic set-point with the cytomel, dhea, and consistent high sugar consumption). And now I seem to myself to be slightly hyperthyroid, maybe...: kindof slightly hyperreactive to foods, due to having no body fat reserves to buffer the influx of foreign material from the digestive system. Dependent on continual input of sugars for peak performance (but who isn't).
I feel a bit run-down and tired, but also, at the same time now, at the top of my game athletically and metabolically. Maybe my state is mostly dependent on motivation...but I do think my body fat is too low.
Clearly I've done a lot of dietary stuff "wrong" and "foolish things." Maybe it'll balance out in the end if I quit eating clay, coconut oil, decrease OJ, eat organic bananas, lots of eggs with melted cheese, ice cream, some meat, and maybe go back to coffee with sugar once I've gained a little bit of weight. Maybe some beer too.
I probably won't become an enthusiastic regular poster, but if anyone's had any similar experiences I'd be interested to hear if their body eventually recovered to a more stable--rather than competition-ready--level. Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed my story.