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Opening up the thread posted on Peatarian many years ago, showcasing the more light hearted and comedy quotes of Ray Peat. Feel free to post any others you've found.
Ray Peat The Comedian - Ray Peat Q&A
". . . Rather than showing that salt causes stomach cancer, the experiments showed that a cup or more of saturated salt solution, or several ounces of pure salt, shouldn't be ingested at the same time as a strong carcinogen."
"Carrageenan is recognized to be carcinogenic to the intestine and liver and to produce inflammation . . . The assumption is, I guess, that if it only irritates the intestine and causes cancer in the liver, then it is tolerable."
"A crocodile might experience the same sort of allergic reaction when eating estrogen-treated women and when eating commercial bananas."
"Spiders that build architecturally beautiful webs have been favorite subjects for theorizing about the instinctive mechanisms of behavior. When spiders were sent up on an orbiting satellite, they were in a situation that spiders had never experienced before. Spiders have always taken advantage of gravity for building their webs, and at first, the orbiting spiders made strange little muddled arrangements of filaments, but after just a few attempts, they were able to build exactly the same sort of elegant structures that spiders normally build. (My interpretation of that was that spiders may be more intelligent than most neurobiologists.)"
"In this medical environment, close associations between estrogen and degenerative diseases are acknowledged, but they are given a meaning contrary to common sense by saying that the association occurs because there isn't enough estrogen. The stove burns you because it isn't hot enough.
As Dave Barry would say, I'm not making this up. Recently well publicized articles have suggested that estrogen protects the brain (even against stroke!) because it increases serotonin and NO. There is something almost esthetically pleasing when so many major errors are concentrated into a single article."
Mary Enig wrote an article about Ray Peat and his opinions on the essential fatty acids, she said of him:
He is trained in hormone therapy and his training in fats and oils has been limited to misinformation as far as the polyunsaturated fats and oils are concerned.
He responded:
"1) If you could get her to expand on her remark "the Mead acid acts
as a "filler" fatty acid that cannot serve the functions that the
original EFA are needed for," I would be interested to know whether
she has something particular in mind.
2) Where did she learn about my training in misinformation--I never
list it on my resume.
3) I agree that people need more vitamin A and D than they usually
get, but I'm not confident of the safety of any of the common
sources."
"Colleges would probably be embarrassed to admit students on the basis of their temperature (though they commonly award scholarships on the basis of the ability to throw a ball)."
In reference to the Hayflick limit:
"The cells of the skin and bowel divide thousands of times in a normal lifetime, showing there is a kind of arrogant silliness in the claim that "human cells have a strictly limited capacity to divide" (I call this "dissproof by dandruff.")
"...a professor introduced me and said that he was fluent in Spanish. And that surprised me because I never thought of myself as being fluent in English, even."
"In a world run by corporation executives, university presidents ("football is central to the university's mission"), congressmen, bankers, oilmen, and agency bureaucrats, people with the intelligence of an ant (a warm ant) might seem outlandishly intelligent."
"Watson presented himself as a student of the famous Pavlov, and argued for an unconscious psychology, with the result that our culture has lost the meaning of the century's greatest work in psychology and brain physiology. (Sometimes I wonder whether J. B. Watson wasn't vacationing in Bermuda during the time he claimed to be studying with Pavlov.)"
On the causes of anxiety:
"Often it’s some simple thing, such as hypothyroidism. A chronic external stress (such as crocodiles or secret police) can lead to an internal change, such as thyroid failure."
Ray Peat The Comedian - Ray Peat Q&A
". . . Rather than showing that salt causes stomach cancer, the experiments showed that a cup or more of saturated salt solution, or several ounces of pure salt, shouldn't be ingested at the same time as a strong carcinogen."
"Carrageenan is recognized to be carcinogenic to the intestine and liver and to produce inflammation . . . The assumption is, I guess, that if it only irritates the intestine and causes cancer in the liver, then it is tolerable."
"A crocodile might experience the same sort of allergic reaction when eating estrogen-treated women and when eating commercial bananas."
"Spiders that build architecturally beautiful webs have been favorite subjects for theorizing about the instinctive mechanisms of behavior. When spiders were sent up on an orbiting satellite, they were in a situation that spiders had never experienced before. Spiders have always taken advantage of gravity for building their webs, and at first, the orbiting spiders made strange little muddled arrangements of filaments, but after just a few attempts, they were able to build exactly the same sort of elegant structures that spiders normally build. (My interpretation of that was that spiders may be more intelligent than most neurobiologists.)"
"In this medical environment, close associations between estrogen and degenerative diseases are acknowledged, but they are given a meaning contrary to common sense by saying that the association occurs because there isn't enough estrogen. The stove burns you because it isn't hot enough.
As Dave Barry would say, I'm not making this up. Recently well publicized articles have suggested that estrogen protects the brain (even against stroke!) because it increases serotonin and NO. There is something almost esthetically pleasing when so many major errors are concentrated into a single article."
Mary Enig wrote an article about Ray Peat and his opinions on the essential fatty acids, she said of him:
He is trained in hormone therapy and his training in fats and oils has been limited to misinformation as far as the polyunsaturated fats and oils are concerned.
He responded:
"1) If you could get her to expand on her remark "the Mead acid acts
as a "filler" fatty acid that cannot serve the functions that the
original EFA are needed for," I would be interested to know whether
she has something particular in mind.
2) Where did she learn about my training in misinformation--I never
list it on my resume.
3) I agree that people need more vitamin A and D than they usually
get, but I'm not confident of the safety of any of the common
sources."
"Colleges would probably be embarrassed to admit students on the basis of their temperature (though they commonly award scholarships on the basis of the ability to throw a ball)."
In reference to the Hayflick limit:
"The cells of the skin and bowel divide thousands of times in a normal lifetime, showing there is a kind of arrogant silliness in the claim that "human cells have a strictly limited capacity to divide" (I call this "dissproof by dandruff.")
"...a professor introduced me and said that he was fluent in Spanish. And that surprised me because I never thought of myself as being fluent in English, even."
"In a world run by corporation executives, university presidents ("football is central to the university's mission"), congressmen, bankers, oilmen, and agency bureaucrats, people with the intelligence of an ant (a warm ant) might seem outlandishly intelligent."
"Watson presented himself as a student of the famous Pavlov, and argued for an unconscious psychology, with the result that our culture has lost the meaning of the century's greatest work in psychology and brain physiology. (Sometimes I wonder whether J. B. Watson wasn't vacationing in Bermuda during the time he claimed to be studying with Pavlov.)"
On the causes of anxiety:
"Often it’s some simple thing, such as hypothyroidism. A chronic external stress (such as crocodiles or secret police) can lead to an internal change, such as thyroid failure."
