It's popular to talk about scalp tension as a mechanism for baldness, but it has no explanatory force with regards to neonatal pattern baldness — which can be explained by sudden loss of CO2, rapid reduction in brain temperature, a surge of prolactin, and mast cell activation.

Milk powder pancakes: 1) cook 1/4 cup of oat bran in the microwave, 2) mix in blender with 1 egg, pinch of salt, 6 tablespoons of no-additive milk powder, and a little milk for a consistency that isn't too runny, 3) cook on low-medium heat in butter, making sure not to burn.

"In the present work it is shown that the rat placed upon a sucrose diet develops the ability to survive otherwise lethal doses of mercury." (1957)

Since FGF21 functions as an acute phase reactant-like protein that's increased in stress, sickness, and aging — the benefits of high sugar diets probably have nothing to do with it.

Ray Peat 101: burning liberated fat into the blood is injurious; instead, a strategy of bolstering liver function to gradually excrete it can be employed. "...Enhanced mobilization and oxidation of fat is one of the fundamental responses to stress." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6867023

You may disagree with the energy-stress model of health, but remember that virtually no one else is providing an intelligible model for evaluation. Health influencer people almost always subsist on a random buffet of pet ideas that don't fit together in any meaningful way.

Unless you're maximizing for stress, there's no reason a very high-sugar, low-protein diet can't be sustainable by adding an egg yolk, mushrooms, and strategically rationing milk and cheese. Adding simple syrup to juice greatly helps meet carbohydrate requirements.

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Reminder that daily contradictory news isn't due to incompetence — it's a coordinated strategy of terror. "Strategy of terror... keep the person hazy... contradictory news... utterly unclear... paralyzed by severe inner conflict in regards to what to do." — Kurt Lewin (1942)

I've noticed that when doing low-protein, high-sugar, taking thyroid, and living at altitude — coke tastes flat and bad, which has only ever happened to me when taking acetazolamide.

One reason I talk about preparedness stuff is that living off-grid is one of the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. If freedom-loving people with no experience were suddenly trust into a similar situation, I don't think it would go well. Act now while things are "good."

"It's a pity that Ray Peat never talked about [topic that Ray Peat exhaustively wrote about and discussed]."

Ant problem? Test your outlets for dirty electricity. "Resplicing" the outlets using Wago connectors can sometimes be enough to make the ants go away. "...The fire ant is attracted to electric fields. Attraction is directly proportional to field strength..." (Mackay, 1992)

A valuable article from El distilling the most important aspects of Ray Peat's holistic science: Philosophy and Wholeness: Ray Peat’s Perspective el7770.substack.com/p/philosophy-a…

I'm slowly replacing all PVC conduit around the house with metal conduit (EMT) to protect from EMF, and it looks a lot better. Still learning how to bend conduit. The photos are from outside to inside the mechanical room, leading to the wireway between the inverters.

It doesn't seem to be common knowledge that some people use aspirin in graded amounts depending on how bad their estrogen problem is. Because aspirin can lower blood sugar, doses are often spaced out. It's also common to use vitamin K alongside aspirin to prevent bleeding.

The program never really changes.

I finished installing the inductors (bottom right) and replaced all plastic conduit with metal. Inductors filter out "dirty" high-frequency noise while allowing the regular 60 Hz to pass. In my case, they reduced the dirty electricity by about 85%, which I'm pleased with.