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Is there a reason you're eating more meat than rice? And more veggies than rice? Are you cutting down on carbs? I have come to realize that we should be eating more sugar/carbs than protein and fat. I'm comfortable with the idea of eating 70/10/20 mix of sugar/fat/protein, calorie-wise. If your metabolism is high, there is no problem burning those sugar. If you're burning primarily fat and protein because you lack sugar, your subjecting your body to stress regularly. Chronic stress is a waste of energy. Have enough energy and don't waste it. The energy left after it's used for maintaining your internals can then be used for your externals such as hair and skin.
Cabbage is not good for the thyroid. Kale is very good. Are you eating lots of it? You have to make it a habit to eat plenty of cooked greens. I make myself cooked green leaf salad. I boil water and place the green leaves and let it simmer for about 20 minutes, as Ray Peat suggests this much time, to make sure that the calcium does not bind to the phytates in leaves. Green leaves are very rich in calcium and magnesium. More than 90% of calcium in a plant is in the leaves. I believe such is the case with magnesium as well. The salad is the cooked greens plus vinegar and diced onions and tomatoes. I have to eat plenty to help my daily calcium and magnesium requirements. With calcium, you can find other foods such as milk and cheese and fried anchovies to help meet your 1600mg daily requirement of elemental calcium. But with magnesium, it is practically the only food I can rely on to meet my daily 400 mg reqt of elemental magnesium. If you're not eating this much, it's likely you are deficient in magnesium. You would need to rely on magnesium supplementation, but that is another subject in itself as there are different forms of magnesium supplements.
If you can drink milk, I suggest you consider making it part of your food to meet your calcium needs. There are many narratives about why milk is not good for you. I have realized they are not well-founded.
It's better to buy a centrifugal fruit juicer, and juice your fruits. Eating them is fine except that you can't eat enough without becoming full of fiber. Fiber isn't good. It's a source of endotoxins. Fruits provide plenty of fructose as well as potassium. I drink about two cups of juice daily. Our daily potassium requirements is immense at 4700mg. This helps meet these needs. You can get plenty of potassium also from sweet potatoes and bananas. If you juice vegetables, you also get plenty of potassium. Meat also has potassium, but if you're going to eat less meat, expect meat to contribute less to your potassium needs.
These are high in sulfur-based amino acids such as cysteine and methionine. You don't need these as much after you've stopped growing. There are plenty of other kinds of meat that have more gelatin and collagen. The cheaper cuts of meat are actually better than the expensive ones in this regard. Some ideas - pork leg, pork ears, face, nape. pork kidneys, pork intestine, chicken legs, fish head, oxtail, ox legs and feet. There are plenty sources in Hongkong. Ray Peat says our protein intake can have as high as 50% glycine, an amino acid which is found in gelatin. As we grow older, our intention is not to grow but to maintain and preserve.
I hate to say that affluence does not guarantee health and may in fact cause health to deteriorate. People who are making ends meet tend to eat more carbs, and eat cheaper vegetables such as leaves, and eat less meat. They could actually be doing better than eating plenty of nice cuts of meat. They believe everything the doctor says, thinking "delegating" their health to the most renowned and highly recommended doctors (by their peers) is the best for what they can very well afford. They get annual exams that give them a false sense of health, and they get subjected to routine x-rays that are standard procedure. They're told their disease is genetic and they're told it is natural to be chronically sick because of their age. They end up being regular patients in hospitals, subjecting to all sorts of invasive procedures before they meet an untimely death. They have no time to read up on Ray Peat's works, and in fact are likely to scoff at his ideas. It's good you have time to read up on Ray Peat. It is a long journey, but well worth it.
I don't mean that. I meant to say that you have more than enough food to supply the keratin for your hair, but you are deficient in some substances and these affect your hair growth and health. You have to address these limiting factors.
There are many reasons for that but I think that if you start to address your probable magnesium deficiency, you may find yourself getting more energetic. Do you have access to magnesium bicarbonate water in Hongkong? I've found many issues I had started to go away with therapeutic magnesium intake. Things such as knee pain, lethargy, my "trigger finger-" my middle finger being bent upon waking up and frozen, my seborrheic dermatitis in my scalp. I was taking magnesium chloride, but don't recommend it because while the magnesium helped, the chloride made me weaker. I'm going to complete my DIY magnesium bicarbonate this week, so I can go back to this. I'm not on any magnesium now, and I can already feel my knee pain coming back.
Your heart rate at 60 bpm can stand to be increased. I would like to see mine at around 84 bpm. I don't feel energetic in the 60s. When I get in the mid70s, I feel a lot better.
It seems that way.
Hey Yerrag, I think you've been giving lots of good advice, but on this I've got a different take. I think it depends. If you get gut distress from the fibre, excessive gas, slow transit, signs of excess endotoxin, or having trouble eating enough because of the time it takes to chew the fruit, then juicing can be useful. But there are also many people who seem to fare well eating fruit as well as drinking juice, and it has some advantages too, for some people. So I'd say do either or both, whichever works and serves you.
I'm also batteling diffuse hair loss and tried almost every peat trick in the book. For me trough trial and error it seems heavily related to methylation snips, food sensitivities, mal-nutrition, digestion, internal / enviromental stress and hormonal balance.
I hear a popping sound - the TCM bubble just popped?
