4peatssake
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Yeah and here's why. We've all been brainwashed.readforjoy said:Hard to wrap my brain around sugar being healthy.
SourceRay Peat said:Since the first doctor noticed, hundreds of years ago, that the urine of a diabetic patient tasted sweet, it has been common to call the condition the sugar disease, or sugar diabetes, and since nothing was known about physiological chemistry, it was commonly believed that eating too much sugar had to be the cause, since the ability of the body to convert the protein in tissues into sugar wasn’t discovered until 1848, by Claude Bernard (who realized that diabetics lost more sugar than they took in). Even though patients continued to pass sugar in their urine until they died, despite the elimination of sugar from their diet, medical policy required that they be restrained to keep them from eating sugar. That prescientific medical belief, that eating sugar causes diabetes, is still held by a very large number, probably the majority, of physicians.
SourceRay Peat said:There is a great anti-sugar cult, with even moralistic overtones, equating sugar craving with morphine addiction. Sugar craving is usually caused by the need for sugar, generally caused by hypothyroidism.When yeasts have enough sugar, they just happily make ethanol, but when they don't have sugar, they can sink filaments into the intestine wall seeking it, and, if the person is very weak, they can even invade the bloodstream and other organs.
Ray Peat turns virtually everything we've been told about healthy eating on its head.
It's astounding and sometimes hard to fathom just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
SourceRay Peat said:Following the old reasoning about the sugar disease, the newer kind of obese diabetes is commonly blamed on eating too much sugar. Obesity, especially a fat waist, and all its associated health problems, are said by some doctors to be the result of eating too much sugar, especially fructose. (Starch is the only common carbohydrate that contains no fructose.) Obesity is associated not only with diabetes or insulin resistance, but also with atheroslcerosis and heart disease, high blood pressure, generalized inflammation, arthritis, depression, risk of dementia, and cancer.
There is general agreement about the problems commonly associated with obesity, but not about the causes or the way to prevent or cure obesity and the associated conditions.
What other health practitioner do you know (save for those who counsel others using Ray Peat's wisdom) who would recommend this as part of your "daily diet" and contend that these foods protect against stress?
SourceRay Peat said:A daily diet that includes two quarts of milk and a quart of orange juice provides enough fructose and other sugars for general resistance to stress, but larger amounts of fruit juice, honey, or other sugars can protect against increased stress, and can reverse some of the established degenerative conditions. Refined granulated sugar is extremely pure, but it lacks all of the essential nutrients, so it should be considered as a temporary therapeutic material, or as an occasional substitute when good fruit isn't available, or when available honey is allergenic.
I can personally attest to the need for additional sugar as a temporary therapeautic material. When I first started, I was so absolutely sugar starved and my thyroid so dysfunctional that I needed to add extra table sugar to feel right. I craved it. My body needed it. Now adding additional sugar is too much because of proper dosing of cynoplus and cynomel.
SourceRay Peat said:Sugar craving is usually caused by the need for sugar, generally caused by hypothyroidism.
I was borderline diabetic, hypothryoid and had terrible mood swings which I always blamed on sugar binges and an inability to process sugar. Boy was I wrong. I was making the worst possible choices, most especially the avoidance of sugar. This is essentially what I'd bought into.
SourceRay Peat said:...many people were converted to Yudkin's version of the lipid theory of heart disease, i.e., that the "bad lipids" in the blood are the result of eating sugar. This has grown into essentially a cult, in which sugar is believed to act like an intoxicant, forcing people to eat until they become obese, and develop the "metabolic syndrome," and "diabetes," and the many problems that derive from that.
My father's doctors fed him this same bs and he died of congestive heart failure.
For me now, since Peating, most everything has stabilized and while I have a lot of healing still to do, for the most part the body is in balance and is no longer freaking out because it is finally being given the nutrients it needs to function properly.
I count myself most fortunate to have found Ray Peat.
BTW, if your doctor is recommending a LC diet, he knows nothing about thyroid disease and nothing about nutrition. But then again, most doctors know nothing about thyroid disease and nothing about nutrition, unfortunately.