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Fat, Physics, and Organicism in Biology

How does a person lose weight eating high carbs? Metabolism-protective, high fruit, pro-thyroid eating and living attracts stressed, burned-out people because they find that denying themselves by willpower becomes untenable, and, the opposite of what they were aspiring to happens: insomnia, depression, anxiety, weight gain, hair loss, low libido, crushing fatigue, a sensation of being overwhelmed by small things. Weight gain is a subject of concern to peatarians because many find that eating more sugar with adequate protein that they feel much better, but they have gained 30 lbs in the process. Typically this is after an adult lifetime of dieting to reduce calories and programs of exercise. What to do? Some thoughts on fat Physiological adaptations are, in themselves, survival and life-coping mechanisms. To the extent that they function as protective is not morally bad, though there are always side-effects in a bad environment. The truth does out. Your physiology wants [yo

In My Own Words: Ray Peat’s Sugar Issues

"Could you just tell me what Ray Peat says?" How many times have you read that? Ray Peat's papers are clear to anyone who will take the time to read them.  But sometimes it's not an aspiration to be seriously unengaged that is at work, but illness of exactly the type that RP is trying to help people with. This post is for that: getting a start until you can push your own orange up the hill.  The following monster is a version of Ray Peat’s article, Sugar Issues I have rewritten in my own words. I have a background in doing this when reading complex texts in order to make them part of me or to show them to others. I hadn’t done this before with RP’s articles but I had seen requests to have his ideas available in terms that people who do not do what Paul Goodman called, “reading for art” could read. To some people this will sound simply patronizing. That is not my real intention. Normally, I think this is a bad idea. I have no ambition to do this as a