And it’s not just past sunset either. It’s causing harm any time of day, just moreso past sunset.
Even spending time inside with windows closed can make one blue light toxic.
Jan 22 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
This has been researched and common knowledge since the 1970s - 1980s. Not really so common anymore, of course. It’s not as profitable as a lifetime pharmaceutical prescription.
This is another major reason why I recommend investing in term insurance if you choose to ignore circadian rhythm and light environment.
Disturbed circadian rhythm of the intrarenal renin-angiotensin system: relevant to nocturnal hypertension and renal damage link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Dec 17, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
There seems to be a deep misunderstanding of what occurs with glucose metabolism while consuming a ketogenic or low carb diet that I’ve seen floating around the Ray Peat community.
The claim I’ve seen going around goes as you begin to break down your muscles directly into amino acids, which is what stimulates gluconeogenesis to produce glucose, and that this occurs regardless of caloric intake or dietary composition.
This is not remotely true if you are eating sufficient protein at a caloric maintenance or surplus (fed state), even when exercising when net protein balance is impacted most in this context vs at rest.
Nov 21, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Completely changed my diet, lifestyle, environment, and relationships with myself and those around me. Utilized herbs, supplements, and various compounds along the way to support those processes and changes.
Quit all drugs, quit all inflammatory foods and “foods”, quit all drug-like relationships. Began spending my time learning more about my interests, eating a whole food diet at a nutritional surplus to resolve extensive deficiencies and supplemented gaps along the way, started to surround myself with people who actually wanted what’s best for me and didn’t just see me as stupid or not worth their time.
The most difficult aspect was likely changing my own conscious outlook on myself and my own life, finding gratitude and value in my experiences and self. Lots of deep shadow work, delving into the darkest emotions I had suppressed for most of my life head-on, and processing them effectively, then accepting.
I don’t really remember how depression feels anymore. I recall the memories, but it feels like a different person experienced those memories now.
This took a couple years, gradually making more and more progress. Figuring out the ins and outs.
Chronic social isolation was the final obstacle I had to overcome, so I moved cross country to be closer to those I had grown closest to. Perhaps the most profound effect on my mental health, where I had otherwise tried to biohack my way out of that biochemistry. Nothing beats positive relationships with those you feel comfortable and safe to be around.
Nov 12, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Great way to induce insulin resistance and elevate total/LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, among a handful of other detrimental symptoms.
The much better option would be increasing potassium and magnesium intake in relation to sodium.
Particularly 2:1 potassium to sodium intake in diet.
Association between the Urinary Sodium to Potassium Ratio and Blood Pressure in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Nov 10, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Creativity is actually a degenerated serotonergic, dopamine-dysregulated brain state.
Artificial lighting, circadian dysregulation, and blocking the sunlight all contribute to dopamine dysregulation globally throughout the body, but especially in the eyes and brain.
Sep 9, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Various common antibiotics also wipe out Oxalobacter formigenes and other bacteria that metabolize oxalates.
I believe artificial blue light and nnEMF have a similar effect due to the depth of penetration of those wavelengths and their effect-coupling to vitamins A + D cycling.
AZ summer, 110-120 degrees that day. On the river, tubing. Applied sunscreen full body. Ate mushrooms so didn’t feel my body literally being cooked alive.
Got home that evening with sun poisoning and pictures below.
Apr 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The window of his truck suppressed red and infrared light spectrum that offsets DNA damage from UV light spectrum exposure while letting in all of the blue
Long hours on the road (melatonin suppression which offsets UV light DNA damage) and likely often poor diet (lacking constituents and micronutrients that do the same) as well.
Apr 12, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
They both go hand-in-hand, there is no one better than the other.
Nutrition is required to fuel energy metabolism, exercise promotes better energy utilization from macronutrients consumed.
Leptin status and digestion is dysregulated if you get tired after a large meal.
Otherwise quite solid advice in this thread.
Apr 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Free glutamates included to all ultra processed and fast foods is one of THE primary drivers of food addiction and hyper palatability at its core.
More names on labels than monosodium glutamate.
Excessive phosphorus can certainly be an issue if you end up consuming the tap water without filtering for whatever reason (most filters should account for phosphates), but can be countered by sufficient calcium intake in the diet.
Mar 28, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I was just having this thought myself. I used to see this world as a hell prison, a purgatory.
I believe news and social media promotes this perspective very strongly, and intentionally.
When you step away from it all, you really do begin to see the beauty and vibrancy in this world again.
Mar 19, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
More sun at sunrise and sunset while grounded barefoot to bare earth, minimize or eliminate blue light and nnEMF exposure, zero tolerance for both after sunset, more seafood and shellfish for DHA + iodine, spring/mineral water over RO, eliminate sources of fluoride as well
When we were back in Phoenix visiting my family and the general area I had grown up around, I was reminded of the sheer strength of my will.
Where most any recovering addict would have to leave the environment they picked up and used in for any chance of hope, I stayed where I was still living at the time when I decided it was my turn to get clean.
Feb 28, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Many people are running on pure cortisol and/or adrenaline, then introduce sunning, grounding, magnesium, circadian lifestyle, etc. so when that sympathetic nervous system hyper activation is regulated, they experience what they mistake as “fatigue”, when in reality it’s their body relaxing and resetting for the first time in potentially their entire lives.
That “fatigue” is your body telling you you need to rest and repair.
Blasting their brain and CNS/PNS with caffeine megadoses and stimulants, pulling all nighters blasting themselves with ALAN, burning the candle at both ends.
That acute manic cortisol energy is useful acutely to get shit done, but not remotely sustainable. It will catch up with you no matter how “tough” you think you are.
Feb 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Something that made a major impact on my health recovery, I believe, was post TBI, I had read an article mentioning a facial expression in itself could elicit the associated emotion and underlying biochemistry involved.
This piece of information really stuck with me as I was extremely suicidal at the time. I began practicing forcing smiling for large portions of my day.
Feb 7, 2023 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
“We believe patients must be taught something about their illness and must have hope that it can be treated successfully.”
“We do not follow the usual mantra of modern psychiatry which is; (1) You will never get well; (2) You will never be off drugs; and (3) You will never complete your education.”
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