Jenn said:I worked with a nutritionist who understands Peat's info.
Dear Jenn, I don't know your "nutritionist" but I know what Ray Peat thinks of this profession (see below) and I know that it took me four and a half years to read my way through Ray Peat's books and articles and newsletters and publications. And I am still reading and learning. By doing so I came to realize that 90% of what I believed to be true before turned out to be utter nonsense.
If your nutritionist read a lot of Ray Peat and gives you advice you don't find in his work, I would ask her for the scientific source and check out whether she is right or not. It sounds like she gave you an awful lot of statements without any proof behind them.
From "Nutrion for Women" by Ray Peat, pages 100 a.f.
Since a 30 minute talk by a dietitian is given such tremendous weight in our culture and laws, we should know
something about their training: such awesome power, if not divine, must come from the next highest authority, but since that seems to be the AMA. this would involve a circularity.
Dietetics is often combined with home economics. It is still possible to become a dietitian without taking a single course in biochemistry. It isn't too surprising that the textbooks used in their nutrition courses contain little more than is in junior high health texts. But it is odd that they criticize people with training in biochemistry (e.g., Linus Pauling, Adelle Davis, R.J. Williams) as not being qualified to talk about nutrition. According to a Registered Dietitian whose lecture preceded mine on a symposium tor pharmacists, physiologists aren't qualified to talk about nutrition either, and "every quack in the country is calling himsell a nutritionist." A friend of mine who visited the Oregon State University nutrition department told me that a display there included books by these people (mentioned above) in a displayon"nutritionalquacks."
Maybe someone is trying to glorify quackery by associating these people with the word?
A study found that people with more education are more likely to eat "health foods". However, a study done by Oregon State University nutritionists found that food faddists' diets are no better than a normal diet (I don 't know what they mean by normal; the US Department of Agriculture found that close to half of the US population has a nutritional deficiency, so normal is bad). The dietitian reporting the study on TV said that faddists avoid many of the good foods like white bread, and that we should follow a normal diet to
"eat all the food God gave us".
Jenn said:I haven't had heartburn or reflux either, but a lot of people do because they are eating food, but not actually digesting it. It need to go somewhere, so it goes up instead of down.
See, Ray Peat never wrote anything about reflux or heartburn. If he talked about it in an interview I haven't heard it and I cannot find anything to back up that claim scientifically. If you state it like that, as a fact, I would be grateful if you gave the proper references. Otherwise I would ask you to phrase it as your belief. It took me quite a while to try to find the information and I would not have done that had I known it as just an educated guess.
Jenn said:If you eat a meal and it still in your stomach at the end of the day (would happen to me frequently, but was not aware of it, when I ate meat/fat), you have not actually gotten any benefit from the food. I was confusing "full" with nourished. Yes, I believe a lot of people are not as healthy as they think they are.
I don't see why that would be a problem. I eat ice cream and drink milk with gelatine minutes before I go to bed to keep blood sugar up and stress hormones down. That was recommended by Ray Peat. The believe of not-going-to-bed with a full stomach sound very similar to don't-go-swimming-without-a-full-stomach. I have never heard or seen any scientific proof for that. If there is any, please be kind enough to post it together with the statement.
Jenn said:Now, mostly in the summer when I am less stressed, I can eat meat at night (lowest stomach acid levels of the day) and actually have an empty stomach in an hour or so. It's rare still, but it does happen from time to time. Mostly I am ecstatic if I can digest meat in the AM. I still have trouble with the assimilation in the intestines after digestion. More food getting too the intestine means more work.
Why is the stomach-acid-level lowest at night and during summer?
Jenn said:I never really realized how bad off I was until I started getting better. Only now can I even conceive of the possibilities. If your "standard" is already unhealthy and you are not even as healthy as they are......
I totally agree with that last observation, Jenn and I hope you can forgive me for being annoying about references. I have heard lots of statements in my past like "PUFA are essential", "Iron is important", "Your diet should contain lots of cereals", "Sugar is bad for you", "Saturated fats are the devil", "High cortisol will give you a heart attack".
I believed some of them and really messed up my health.
So from now on I check the references. Even Ray Peat's. No exceptions.
I don't want any more statements if they are not based on science.
I hope you do understand.