The Beatles As Peatarian Creatives?

[Sunny Jack]

Hi all,

For a long time now, I've had this idea that the Beatles were unconsciously obeying large parts of Ray Peat's dietary and lifestyle philosophy which may in fact have had a significant influence on their century-defining creative output.

For example, when we consider their magnum opus Sgt Pepper, we find the Beatles mainly drinking whole milk, concentrated orange juice, taking Peat-friendly LSD, drinking black tea with milk and sugar, eating refined (almost-sugar) starches like Corn Flakes, toast, baked beans, etc. For all the skin-aging damage that smoking cigarettes might have done, none of them have ever gone bald. Though Paul did go grey in his forties following a naïve vegetarian diet.

Do you think that the Beatles, and indeed, 1960s people in general, were more creatively productive than 21st century moderns due to their unconsciously-Peatarian diet and lifestyle?

 

[kayumochi]

Sounds like you are connecting dots where there are no dots ...

 

[Westside PUFAs]

The whole milk, tea with tannins etc., corn flakes, toast and beans aren't really Peatarian.

The reason they were successful was mostly because of Paul's writing ability. It's not something that can be learned.

 

[G Forrest]

I'll post this right here:

 

[x-ray peat]

The Walrus was Ray

 

[G Forrest]

The Peatles

 

[brocktoon]

OMG - The Peatles...absolute genius!

 

[Makrosky]

For example, when we consider their magnum opus Sgt Pepper, we find the Beatles mainly drinking whole milk, concentrated orange juice, taking Peat-friendly LSD, drinking black tea with milk and sugar, eating refined (almost-sugar) starches like Corn Flakes, toast, baked beans, etc.

Errrrr where do you take this statements from??? Besides LSD.

 

[Sunny Jack]

The whole milk, tea with tannins etc., corn flakes, toast and beans aren't really Peatarian.

The reason they were successful was mostly because of Paul's writing ability. It's not something that can be learned.

Well, I doubt that anyone was Peatarian in those days, not even Peat. But the simple carbs (starch, sugar) and the intuitive diet may have been helpful in that it didn't fill them with modern PUFAs or indeed anything that is particularly anti-Peat. Milk certainly is Peatarian, real tea is as near as a British person would get to coffee in the 1950s and 1960s, while the cereal and toasted white bread would have provided refined starch carbs that would have given glucose to the brain. Perhaps McCartney's innate writing ability is an example of epigenetic 'talent' passed down from his parents. Peat has said that older mothers produce more intelligent children, and Paul's father was 39 and his mother was 40 when he was born. Peat has said that canned goods aren't that bad, and according to his biography, Paul was fed on beef, pork and canned fruits growing up. Milk was the Beatles' go-to drink in the early days. British socialised healthcare in the mid-20th century was fairly Peatish, in that schoolchildren were given free milk to provide calcium and protein, while orange juice concentrate was promoted as a source of vitamin C.

 

[Sunny Jack]

OMG - The Peatles...absolute genius!

Funnily enough, before they were famous, the Beatles were popular in Hamburg, West Germany, in part because their name sounded like "the Peedles", which was the German word for "the [small] penises"!