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Dr. Ray Peat: Thyroid supplements can be useful for prostate hypertrophy and some cases of impotence and infertility. Occasionally, a man who can't put on a normal amount of weight finds that a thyroid supplement allows normal weight gain. Leg cramps, insomnia and depression are often the result of hypothyroidism. Heart failure, gynecomastia, liver disease, baldness and dozens of other problems can result from hypothyroidism.
http://www.thyroid-info.com/articles/ray-peat.htm
Cold hands and feet is a great indicator of thyroid function. If they’re colder than most people’s, it means the adrenals are holding the temperature up for the brain and heart by restricting circulation.
http://oneradionetwork.com/health-articles/show-summary-in-detail-for-dr-ray-peats-interview-on-january-1-2014/
inflammation-related proteins, including CRP, are increased by the hypothyroid hyperhydration. The heart muscle itself can swell, leading to congestive heart failure. ...
Aldosterone secretion increases during the night, and its rise is greater in depressed and stressed people. It inhibits energy metabolism, increases insulin resistance, and increases the formation of proinflammatory substances in fat cells (Kraus, et al., 2005). During aging, salt restriction can produce an exaggerated nocturnal rise in aldosterone.
During the night, there are many changes that suggest that the thyroid functions are being blocked, for example a surge in the thyroid stimulating hormone, with T4 and T3 being lowest between 11 PM and 3 AM (Lucke, et al., 1977), while temperature and energy production are at their lowest. This suggests that the problems of hypothyroidism will be most noticeable during the night.
http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/water.shtml
I've never heard of a CO2 deficiency. What would cause this?Countless things. Ray Peat writes about it a lot. Do you know his blood oxygen saturation % (99-100% is ideal)? It may seem paradoxical, but using CO2 can reportedly improve blood oxygen saturation and apnea. Ray Peat has lots of tips on CO2.
Ray Peat wrote:See also:
the medical analysis is that people don’t breathe enough at night, but when you look at the blood chemistry the usual thing is that they hyperventilate during the night, because as their blood sugar is pushed down to sleep, their adrenaline comes up periodically and this makes them have in effect higher estrogen, higher inflammatory hormones which drives hyperventilation and blows off too much Carbon Dioxide. Then they don’t breathe for a while so they wake up feeling like they have died or have not been breathing enough . The best chemical for this is Diamox (Acetazolamide ) that causes the body to retain more carbon dioxide, it prevents the body from losing too much carbon dioxide which keeps it in the blood.
It’s well established as a cure for sleep Apnea, also used by skiers to prevent altitude sickness, because altitude sickness is a lack of CO2 not oxygen.
http://www.raypeatforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3351#p39598
I have heard the guideline of no more than once every six months because nourishing is more important for healing.Yeah, in the old days a "wash out" was usually done just once a year (typically at the start of school, for children), and maybe occasionally as needed, sometimes twice a year (such as also at the start of spring), rather than chronically.
I wanted to ask about sleep twitching / spasms. He does it a LOT. Never did before, but since his eczema got this bad, he would have twitches constantly through the night and sometimes full muscle spasms. It can range between every 5 seconds to every minute, then sometimes not at all. Some nights it's a lot, some nights there's hardly any. Just felt like mentioning it.[/size]Wow, every 5 seconds is a lot of spams. Does the fact that it never happened before seem troubling at all to you? What do you think might be causing them?
so we had a certain diet of foods that we knew .... but how does something like a coconut (which I loveeeeee .... benefit me if my ancestors never had access to coconuts? ) I sound stupid saying this but its hard to explain.. Is consuming new foods that u like good for u? Say for example I was an ancient ancestor of humans eating a chimp like diet... then i discovered new foods! how does this benefit me and does my body have to adapt to this? how have we evolved away from eating termites, figs and ligs?Maybe coconuts are similar to some of the foods of the past? For example, fig palms and coconut palms are both palm fruits (technically, one is a multiple fruit with drupelets and the other is a drupe), so maybe there are some similarities (along with differences--coconuts have more fat and less carbs than figs), and maybe some of them haven't even been figured out yet? If you want to know then why not look for what the various apemen ancestors (pre-agrarian Homo sapiens sapiens, archaic Homo sapiens, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, Homo erectus, H. ergaster, H. habilis, ...) ate (and we modern H. sapiens sapiens are apemen too, of course). You could also look for what the healthiest peoples in the world today eat (the blue zone survey provides some info on this). Recently, I found the evidence on Neanderthal fig consumption and Tyler found the evidence on Neanderthal wild grain consumption; maybe you'll find more? Have you searched at all yet? If so, what have you found so far?
Colon CleansingI hear you on the maids. Maybe we can come up with a better halo halo for your son that doesn't contain certain of the reported common ingredients like evaporated milk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo-halo). How is this for a start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colon_cleansing#Effectiveness_and_risks
Are Enemas Good for Your Health? - Dr. Ben Kim .com
drbenkim.com/articles-enema.htm
... He also had 3 oil enemas. 1 with vco, 2 with evoo. Later he should have a 4th oil enema. He has a history of diverticulitis. ...GS, Four enemas in a single day? Why so many enemas? How many enemas do you give him in a year, roughly? Is this the same boy who has had eczema for years?
The Real Caveman Diet: Did people eat fruits and vegetables in prehistoric times?
By Brian Palmer
"paleoanthropologists found bits of date stuck in the teeth of a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal"
The claim that Neanderthals almost wholly ate meat has been debunked by recent scientific findings that showed that they actually ate a lot of plant foods as well. Palaeoarchaeology, is, after all, in its infancy still. ...Indeed, and the list of plant foods that Neanderthals reportedly ate keeps growing:
The Real Caveman Diet: Did people eat fruits and vegetables in prehistoric times?
"paleoanthropologists found bits of date stuck in the teeth of a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal"
"Ancient man also ate plants that you can’t find at a grocery store, like ferns and cattails."
Here is that study:-Thanks for the link to that interesting article about the study that produced quite different findings from the early evidence on Neanderthal diets. In it is this about the foods that Neanderthals ate:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080428-neanderthals-diet.html
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"We know that this individual ate a variety of plants, including grass seeds, more commonly called grains" [such as wild barley] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080428-neanderthals-diet_2.html
So basically, cream = butter + buttermilk.That's the modern way of making "cultured buttermilk." There are a couple of Vermont farms that sell traditional cultured buttermilk locally. They churn butter and make cultured buttermilk from the liquid that's left after the churned butter is removed. Some Irish folk call it bonny clabber (bainne clábair).
P.S. Buttermilk sold as "cultured buttermilk" has not been through the churning process. It's made by adding bacteria to milk, sort of like yogurt or kefir.
"Once all developing/undeveloped countries all want meat, most of us are going to be in trouble, facing vast rises in food-prices."
Beef, pork prices continue to climbInterestingly, this one says the price rise is not at all due to the Western USA droughts:
By Susan Hogan
Published: June 4, 2014, 5:29 pmUpdated: June 4, 2014, 5:56 pm
http://wpri.com/2014/06/04/beef-pork-prices-continue-to-climb/
(WPRI) – The price of meat has been rising for the past few months and is expected to go even higher.
The drought in several states has led farmers to raise fewer animals, and that coupled with a higher worldwide demand for meat, is pushing up prices.
Meat Prices Are Skyrocketing: Why?
And the drought is not to blame.
TANYA BASUMAY 30 2014, 3:45 PM ET
Reuters
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/meat-prices-are-skyrocketing/371383/#comments
The drought will likely raise meat prices down the road, but that hasn't happened yet: Feed and meat prices are set far in advance in the futures market. Last year was a good year weather-wise, so this year's prices remain unaffected. As for the E. coli scare: You'd think that the meat industry would be hard-pressed to sell beef to shoppers, bringing prices down. But consumers seem to be shrugging it off, and demand hasn't fallen.
So what is causing the spike in meat prices? The answer is consumers.
“Consumers are feeling better about themselves and their income situation and willing to pay up for good meat,” says Bob Young, chief economist at the American Farm Bureau Federation. But, he says, there aren’t enough fancy cuts of meat to satisfy all the people who want them, which means grocery stores can hike up prices.
“I think that given the stronger demand, folks are going to find not quite the cut they want for the price they want,” Young said. “They might have to downmarket a bit.”
The high prices don't seem to be just a hiccup in the market, warns Young: Meat consumers should expect this price jump to be the norm for potentially three years.
the greatest benefit of disagreeing well is not just that it will make conversations better, but that it will make the people who have them happier. If you study conversations, you find there is a lot more meanness down in DH1 than up in DH6. You don't have to be mean when you have a real point to make. In fact, you don't want to. If you have something real to say, being mean just gets in the way.
If moving up the disagreement hierarchy makes people less mean, that will make most of them happier. Most people don't really enjoy being mean; they do it because they can't help it. - Paul Graham
I mentioned before, that I have spoken with once for about four hours,, he indicated that he doesn't eat 20 per cent of his calories from carbs.. I eat less than that myself. I still think that he may have indicated that so that for people starting off it wouldn't be too difficult.That doesn't change the fact that Rosedale recommended 20% carbs to others. So unless he's misleading people by recommending an unhealthy diet, he's perfectly fine with 20% carbs.
But all foods are skyrocketing.All foods? Presumably you consider bananas a food, given that you eat some, right? Luckily, I have some old budgets in my PC and here are a few banana prices over the years. I don't have prices for organic bananas in the past, and I don't even think there were any sold in my local area back in 1990, so these are conventional banana prices.
When I ate some of the foods he recommends, like dairy, fruit juices and fruits, I did worse.Update on this--I suspect that my problem with fruits, which seems less now, is more to do with a defect like incomplete cellular respiration, rather than a problem inherent in fruits.
