montmorency
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I wonder if Ray Peat has said very much that is specific to lung diseases, by which I mean best ways of prevention, and then possible treatments if disease actually occurs?
I ask partly because I saw a reference here to Ray Peat having said that aspirin can help with most cancers except lung cancer.
I am slightly sensitive about this subject since (some years ago) we lost a very dear member of my extended family (far too young) to this disease. Too late to help her now of course, but I often wondered what could have led to the disease in her case, and what might have been done to prevent it, or to possibly treat it once it was diagnosed (from a Peatarian perspective, of course).
And more positively, how one can prevent it in one's own life, and those near and dear to us.
Obviously avoidance of PUFAs would come into it, but is there anything specific to lung diseases, I wonder?
My own relative used to smoke in her youth (we were a similar age, and would be fellow smoking conspirators in late teenage years). I don't know at what point she gave up smoking - I'd think when she had children, but I'm not certain. (She lived a long way from me, so we only saw each other at family gatherings from time to time).
The other issue would be environmental poisoning I guess. Now, she was a teacher, from around 1970 on, and in those days it would have meant lots of chalk dust around the place (maybe still does in some establishments). However, I've seen a report that claimed that teachers in a certain area were statistically more inclined to develop lung diseases because of something used in the construction, either of a certain sort of pre-fabricated classroom, or something similar. I haven't looked into that very deeply though.
But of course, not all teachers got or get lung diseases, and we would expect there to be many other factors at work.
Anyway, if anyone has read or heard Ray Peat's views on lung diseases specifically, I would find them very interesting.
I ask partly because I saw a reference here to Ray Peat having said that aspirin can help with most cancers except lung cancer.
I am slightly sensitive about this subject since (some years ago) we lost a very dear member of my extended family (far too young) to this disease. Too late to help her now of course, but I often wondered what could have led to the disease in her case, and what might have been done to prevent it, or to possibly treat it once it was diagnosed (from a Peatarian perspective, of course).
And more positively, how one can prevent it in one's own life, and those near and dear to us.
Obviously avoidance of PUFAs would come into it, but is there anything specific to lung diseases, I wonder?
My own relative used to smoke in her youth (we were a similar age, and would be fellow smoking conspirators in late teenage years). I don't know at what point she gave up smoking - I'd think when she had children, but I'm not certain. (She lived a long way from me, so we only saw each other at family gatherings from time to time).
The other issue would be environmental poisoning I guess. Now, she was a teacher, from around 1970 on, and in those days it would have meant lots of chalk dust around the place (maybe still does in some establishments). However, I've seen a report that claimed that teachers in a certain area were statistically more inclined to develop lung diseases because of something used in the construction, either of a certain sort of pre-fabricated classroom, or something similar. I haven't looked into that very deeply though.
But of course, not all teachers got or get lung diseases, and we would expect there to be many other factors at work.
Anyway, if anyone has read or heard Ray Peat's views on lung diseases specifically, I would find them very interesting.