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Also his hair is remarkably better than in his videos from a couple of years ago.
Have you ever read The Wind-up Bird Chronicle?
"Stress hormones have a very powerful ability to cover up issues."Very interesting. I think that there is possibly a bit of throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Sounds like he's living off stress hormones a bit. Stress hormones have a very powerful ability to cover up issues. High levels of cortisol makes you wake up easily.
Sounds like he's been through hell and that's it working for him though.
I wonder if he has ever tried to add something like white sugar into his diet along with this meat diet.
My hypothesis on the meat diet is a lack of endotoxemia and bacterial issues in the colon. As far as I understand, for humans meat and fat are almost entirely absorbed and digested in the small intestine leaving nothing for the colon. They also dont seem to encourage much bacterial growth. The saturated fats themselves and thier stimulation of bile acids also seem to be bacteriocidal/ static. Judging by Mr. Petersons health history with depression and periodontitis as well as his daughters health issues it seems that the family has been colonized by pathogenic bacterial species in thier colon. Grains and starches in my experience seem to be the best promoters for bacterial overgrowth (see grain fed cattle for an easy yet not entirely paralell example). By removing fermentable substrate Mr. Peterson has effectively eliminated his endotoxin burden to a large degree I would guess. There are issues to this tho I think, including:
-lack of specific micro nutrients
-lack of needed macros i.e. sugar
-it doesnt solve the issue in his colon, just holds it a bay by avoidint fermentation altogether
-perhaps too much of certain other nutrients
The reason I think its so powerfully effective is because I think the 2 biggest problems people have with health are due to endotoxin and PUFA. I think these are probably the main drivers of disease. The next factors would be nutrient deficiencies, toxic exposure to chemicals (plant and synthetic) and heavy metals, stress and trauma. (I would say infection falls under endotoxin, I think most infections are easily avoided if endotoxin burden is low).
@Motif
In theory change the colonic microbiota. I’ve been playing around with it myself for awhile now. Here are some options/ possible plan (i have tried all these things yet not so neatly and together):
-using biofilm degraders/ inhibitors
-nystatin + rifaximin to clean out the small intestine (doesnt effect the colon but helps with SIBO/ SIFO)
-bacteriophages (i ordered these from russia after pestering an alternative Dr. for a script and arranging the neccesary documentation to get them through customs) for the pathogenic species after getting a stool test (i wouldnt use antibiotics, they made things worse for me, peat seems to like them tho and to be fair I didnt use them the exact way he recommends)
-essentially re-breastfeed yourself using raw goats milk and raw goat kefir for a period of time
-once finishing the milk cure (if you do try it) create a diet that supplies bacteria that can ferment the food you eat and also a diet that is sound in terms of macros, micros and lack of toxicity. This leaves you with for simplicities sake: specific fruit, specific veggies (most cooked, some not; depends), meat/ organs, specific seafood, beef tallow, coconut oil (be careful with this), cocobutter and maybe dairy if it doesnt effect you negatively and maybe specific starches if they dont effect you negatively. I’d also include some small servings of fermented veggies and/or dairy if your eating dairy. This will provide bacteria that are most likely less pathogenic (we are choosing the least worst option here since we can’t be sterile, especially the colon) than the ones your dealing with if you have a dysbiosis and it will provide prebiotic for those bacteria allowing them to outcompete and pick up residence in the colon (I am well aware this is not in line with peat’s thinking). I tried many variations of dietary approaches using peats principles and currently this has worked the best for me. Something to keep in mind is that introducing foods like fruits and veggies may cause symptoms at first, I would introduce them one at a time/one per week to see the symptoms and if they last. Sometimes the symptoms appear only when you first start and then they go away. Sometimes they persist, if they persist I’d stop that food. I think the liver and bacteria have to adjust to the new plant compounds so it takes a while to reach homeostasis. Also I’d start with fruits that have 1:1 ratios of glucose to fructose and that lack fodmaps/ starch to start.
@Motif
In theory change the colonic microbiota. I’ve been playing around with it myself for awhile now. Here are some options/ possible plan (i have tried all these things yet not so neatly and together):
-using biofilm degraders/ inhibitors
-nystatin + rifaximin to clean out the small intestine (doesnt effect the colon but helps with SIBO/ SIFO)
-bacteriophages (i ordered these from russia after pestering an alternative Dr. for a script and arranging the neccesary documentation to get them through customs) for the pathogenic species after getting a stool test (i wouldnt use antibiotics, they made things worse for me, peat seems to like them tho and to be fair I didnt use them the exact way he recommends)
-essentially re-breastfeed yourself using raw goats milk and raw goat kefir for a period of time
-once finishing the milk cure (if you do try it) create a diet that supplies bacteria that can ferment the food you eat and also a diet that is sound in terms of macros, micros and lack of toxicity. This leaves you with for simplicities sake: specific fruit, specific veggies (most cooked, some not; depends), meat/ organs, specific seafood, beef tallow, coconut oil (be careful with this), cocobutter and maybe dairy if it doesnt effect you negatively and maybe specific starches if they dont effect you negatively. I’d also include some small servings of fermented veggies and/or dairy if your eating dairy. This will provide bacteria that are most likely less pathogenic (we are choosing the least worst option here since we can’t be sterile, especially the colon) than the ones your dealing with if you have a dysbiosis and it will provide prebiotic for those bacteria allowing them to outcompete and pick up residence in the colon (I am well aware this is not in line with peat’s thinking). I tried many variations of dietary approaches using peats principles and currently this has worked the best for me. Something to keep in mind is that introducing foods like fruits and veggies may cause symptoms at first, I would introduce them one at a time/one per week to see the symptoms and if they last. Sometimes the symptoms appear only when you first start and then they go away. Sometimes they persist, if they persist I’d stop that food. I think the liver and bacteria have to adjust to the new plant compounds so it takes a while to reach homeostasis. Also I’d start with fruits that have 1:1 ratios of glucose to fructose and that lack fodmaps/ starch to start.
It may be a bit of chicken and egg problem. I posted a study on the forum showing taurine supplementation became unnecessary after vitamin D levels were elevated above 40. So, the body somehow replenished itself of taurine once vitamin D levels were brought into the good range. But yes, taurine helps absorption of all fat-soluble vitamins.
https://raypeatforum.com/community/...ces-bioavailability-of-vitamins-k-a-d-e.7271/