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"Bad food and other stressors can degrade the whole system, producing functional rigidities similar to those resulting from a bad up-bringing, but if a person has a hint of the way things could be, the system can recover, sometimes with a change of diet, or climate, or of mental context-possibilities, or a missing hormone. If a person has a very rigid idea of how existence is supposed to be, the changed metabolism from taking thyroid, for example, making energy flow strongly, can seem as unpleasant as being in a foreign culture." -Raymond Peat When you discover that you can genuinely de-stress your metabolism from the inside out, you could expect many good effects.  Depending on how long you have had an adrenalin/cortisol-and-inflammation dominant metabolism, your shift from frenetic to esthetic can be smooth and relatively short, or it can be a long-term project, like getting a whole new education from the beginning.  A whole new education is not always possible becau

It’s a common misconception that suicides spike in the winter months because of the depressing effects of dark and cold.  They actually spike in April, May and June, the late spring and early summer.   The rate is lowest in winter.   This is true in the northern hemisphere.   In the southern hemisphere suicides spike in September and October, which is springtime there.   Maybe the spike is the result of accumulating stress over winter.   If there were available, inexpensive nutrition and supplements that mitigated the accumulation of stress over the winter, then these substances would be valuable.   If these could be used well with the least amount of expert advice, then wouldn’t this lead people to improve their confidence in themselves as the agents of their own well-being?   Might what winter contributes to the alienation of sensitive people be tamed enough to encourage thriving rather than cutting, burning, bulimia, suicide?   If mitigating stress also facilitated an understandi

4. It will take about 30% of the time that it took to become in a distressed, burned out state, to rehabilitate the metabolic damage from distress.  Thanks to my Dad for teaching me this principle early and often.  From colds and flu, to surgery, this principle is helpful to me. This formula turns out to be more about what has already happened than what needs to happen in the future in order to regain good metabolic potential.  For older persons the rehab might be practically the rest of your life.  To make this workable, I use 7 years as a maximum since this formula is only useful if it helps you be patient with steady, but sometimes intermittent, improvement. Young people have a different problem with improving metabolism:  their formative years were influenced by a more degraded food supply and exposure to more environmental estrogens.  Younger people are more resilient, but their potential for metabolic robustness can be generally less.  I see many college students who look

There are several principles that a layman can interpret from reading the physical-biological view of the human organism and its metabolism in its environment. 1. Stress happens in real-time and can be mitigated in real-time. 2. Stress accumulates. 3. Aging represents the accumulation of stress and changes in the structural and functional capacity to do work or think clearly. 4. It will take about 30% of the time that it took to become in a distressed, burned out state, to rehabilitate the metabolic damage from distress. 5. E pluribus unum , from many, one. 6. Stress hormones are deceptive; they give euphoric sensations in the short-term. 7. Physiological increments in metabolic support are still support. 8. Distress is traumatic to the metabolism. 9. The food supply is so fundamentally degraded that some ingredients are not distinguishable from building materials. 10. Appetite is a guide to nutritional needs under specific metabolic conditions. The physical-