We’re never going to colonize Mars as long as people keep repeating this nonsense. Your body needs sugar so badly that it will turn itself into sugar if you don’t get enough.

I dreamed I was arguing with someone about the best water-filtration system. Bizarre.

Cell phones are not good for the thyroid. 'In this study, we found a significant correlation between the total radiation and the TSH values among both individuals with or without a family history of thyroid dysfunction.' [PMID: 29285437]

If I was obese I would stop everything else in my life until I figured out how to not be obese. Would be my sole focus. I think America needs to do this. No war until we get average body fat below 25%. Then we can have one war, as a treat

Vitamin E promotes oxidation in many ways, and seems to specifically oppose many of the effects of excess estrogen. For example, it can help protect the liver against damage by toxins (all the nutrients are needed by the liver though). -Ray Peat

I’ve read through the new guidelines on Vitamin D and I’m not sure what to think. Anyone have a take on it?

Or earlier now.

Lack of sunlight, a short photoperiod, or staying indoors can probably contribute to a progesterone deficiency, since both progesterone and testosterone synthesis (the latter in men) are increased in the summer. -Ray Peat

In the stress of ionizing radiation, the ovaries produce excessive estrogen. -Ray Peat

Butyric acid is known to facilitate the entry of T3 into the mitochondrion. -Ray Peat

Trying not to nerd out about estrogen, serotonin, seed oils, sugar, and CO2 in public.

"The thyroid gland presides over our growth; its absence makes the gnomelike grotesque idiot, the cretin. Administration of the life-giving thyroid extract veritably restores the dead in mind and brings dwarfed bodies back to blooming youth. Compared to these realities, legends

I feel that progesterone can reverse the trend toward more hyperactive and brain damaged children, and that it can make a great contribution to the mental and physical health of future generations. -Ray Peat

Seed Oils Ruin Thyroid Function: 🟥 Reducing the basal metabolic rate 🟥 Reducing thyroid hormone binding to transport proteins 🟥 Reducing conversion to the active form of thyroid hormone 🟥 Reducing nuclear receptor binding

I believe they are using the data from Ozempic to mimic the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, considered highly unethical by todays research standards. We have already seen symptoms depression/anxiety called “Ozempic personality” and chronic diarrhea as side effects from both

In a world of oat milk, be raw cream.