Rinse & rePeat
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"Seasons are more important, the farther a person is from the equator. In studies conducted in Leningrad, in the extreme north, the mitochondria (which use oxygen to produce most of our energy) of rabbits were examined at hourly intervals during a long winter night, and early in the night they showed changes in their shape indicating that they were being damaged by stress; with each hour of darkness they became increasingly swollen and distorted, and by dawn some of them had collapsed completely and stopped functioning. On following nights, the damage was cumulative, until at the end of winter, when the rabbits’ cells looked like those of old rabbits. With the lengthening days of spring, their mitochondria became progressively better, and by the end of summer, with the extremely long daylight hours, their health had returned almost to their previous state. The majority of the degenerative changes of aging happen during the winter nights."
-Ray Peat
Back in the day when I was kid we played outside all day! We only came in when our parents called us to, because it was getting dark. I knew about depression when I was 10 years old because my mom complained about it between television commercials. She loved spending her days in her dark room with a couple of candles lit, but she wasn't always like that.
When my dad met my mom, in high school, he was attracted to her for her looks, but also because she was outdoorsy. She was in the "Mariner's Club", and he liked that , because he loved the ocean and boating too. She was healthy, beautiful and fun! They went to parties, out dancing often, took us, as little kids, to the beach, and then she stopped going outside. When she stopped going outside it was the beginning of the end, the end of her marriage, the end of her being an adequate mother, and the end of her health. As her health declined she relied on doctors more and more, and saw her medications as being the center of her existence. She talked about her medications, and her various health issues, to anyone who would listen. She seemed to think that her knowledge of medications made her sound intelligent and interesting, and it did to her other like minded friends, but to us, healthy people, it all seemed worrisome. She never got anywhere with any of it, except down the rabbit hole further, with finally prescribed morphine, for her aches and pains, killing her.
Is was such an unecessary tragedy.
Her mother always told her to, "go outside and you'll feel better", but she never did. She thought such simplistic advice was trivializing the complicated issues that she was dealing with. The sun, how silly! She didn't need the sun, her issues were bigger than that, she needed professionals!
Nowadays we wonder why so many are depressed, lazy, fat, with so many chronic illnesses, cancer and many other diseases, and at such young ages now too! Kids, now, spend their days indoors playing video games and the parents watching television in the other room, with nobody realizing that without our precious sun we cannot survive. We can see it with our own eyes, with society declining and the medical system ruling the world! "We need more research, we need more funding, we need to find cures for this or that". No! We need to get light in our eyes! We need to get our brains stimulated and the life giving sun rays on our skin so our body can do it's job to keep us going! The final irony of it all is now our society is all PUFA laden, so our skin burns with the sun's rays. What is to be done about that now? Add more disfunction by blocking all that life giving vitamin D with sunscreen! Yeah we need professionals alright, for all this madness!
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YS-dg3Dc78k
-Ray Peat
Back in the day when I was kid we played outside all day! We only came in when our parents called us to, because it was getting dark. I knew about depression when I was 10 years old because my mom complained about it between television commercials. She loved spending her days in her dark room with a couple of candles lit, but she wasn't always like that.
When my dad met my mom, in high school, he was attracted to her for her looks, but also because she was outdoorsy. She was in the "Mariner's Club", and he liked that , because he loved the ocean and boating too. She was healthy, beautiful and fun! They went to parties, out dancing often, took us, as little kids, to the beach, and then she stopped going outside. When she stopped going outside it was the beginning of the end, the end of her marriage, the end of her being an adequate mother, and the end of her health. As her health declined she relied on doctors more and more, and saw her medications as being the center of her existence. She talked about her medications, and her various health issues, to anyone who would listen. She seemed to think that her knowledge of medications made her sound intelligent and interesting, and it did to her other like minded friends, but to us, healthy people, it all seemed worrisome. She never got anywhere with any of it, except down the rabbit hole further, with finally prescribed morphine, for her aches and pains, killing her.
Is was such an unecessary tragedy.
Her mother always told her to, "go outside and you'll feel better", but she never did. She thought such simplistic advice was trivializing the complicated issues that she was dealing with. The sun, how silly! She didn't need the sun, her issues were bigger than that, she needed professionals!
Nowadays we wonder why so many are depressed, lazy, fat, with so many chronic illnesses, cancer and many other diseases, and at such young ages now too! Kids, now, spend their days indoors playing video games and the parents watching television in the other room, with nobody realizing that without our precious sun we cannot survive. We can see it with our own eyes, with society declining and the medical system ruling the world! "We need more research, we need more funding, we need to find cures for this or that". No! We need to get light in our eyes! We need to get our brains stimulated and the life giving sun rays on our skin so our body can do it's job to keep us going! The final irony of it all is now our society is all PUFA laden, so our skin burns with the sun's rays. What is to be done about that now? Add more disfunction by blocking all that life giving vitamin D with sunscreen! Yeah we need professionals alright, for all this madness!
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YS-dg3Dc78k
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