Edward
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Hello my name is Edward, I'm an American expat living in Germany for the past 6 or 7 years.
For 6 years I worked in anatomical pathology specializing in histopathology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histopathology, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histology). I was trained at the AFIP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forc ... _Pathology) which at one point was the mecca for studying and diagnosing rare disease. Since its decentralization the primary functions of the AFIP have been relocated primarily to Bethesda and various other areas of the United States.
For 10 years I have been independently studying psychology, primarily the relationship between nutrition and psychology and its implications in sociological patterns.
For 5 years I have been independently studying nutrition.
I came across Dr. Peat's several years ago when thinking about intelligence and culture. I had noticed that in observing different nutrition cult-ures that overall different groups seem to exhibit different patterns of reasoning, logic, and behavior, that were exclusive to that group that couldn't be explained simply by psychology alone, and that, all different nutritional cultures follow the same basic pattern of development from the original idea to its development into a new culture. As I began to understand "nutrition" in the familiar definition of the word, I began to experiment with different diets noting how they affected my psychology. Those observations and experiences form the foundation of my main work which is describing how nutrition impacts sociological behavior.
In my free time I am a father, husband, and I train in the Olympic lifts, the snatch, and clean and jerk, using the Bulgarian and Chinese training systems.
Terms of Service
I have not yet decided about how active I will be in this forum, as I have been reading through old threads, well, there is only a certain level of dogmatism I'm willing to tolerate before it becomes unproductive in discussion. And that is not meant in a negative way. I would hope that others would feel the same with their valuable and limited time. If there is one thing you can count on as a user of this forum is that I will be honest, and I will not beat around the bush. I'm an opinionated person, and, as Kurt Harris said in a moment of clarity, "...opinionated people have opinions about a lot of different things..."
If you ask a question or if I participate in a thread, when appropriate, I will provide you with more than... "have you tried aspirin, have you tried niacin, have you taken thyroid, or any other of the canned answers most are familiar with", which absolutely deters a lot of curious people away from a rational approach to nutrition, rather I will try to be more specific. For example in another forum, there was one women who had a lab result come back abnormal which in some contexts would indicate leukemia, I knew that the women had a history of asthma, so she started asking questions, as I followed the thread there were people recommending that she take aspirin, I asked her if she had been taking aspirin and indeed she had been taking aspirin, in her case aspirin was responsible for the abnormal lab result and I pointed her in the direction of some literature on this topic and the health implications for asthmatics taking aspirin. Aspirin can be lethal for an asthmatic and people were recommending aspirin. In the end it is a person’s choice whether or not to follow the recommendations of another person. However, one must also remember that people who are suffering can sometimes make rash choices that can have a permanent impact on health, so I feel one should be responsible in giving advice so that the person can understand what they are doing before they do it, in other words, we should be just as responsible to ourselves as we are to others in giving advice.
This being a Ray Peat forum and knowing the spirit of his work and the positive impact it has had for many people I hope that it is remembered what Aristotle said: “For Plato says, ‘Socrates, my master, is my friend but a greater friend is truth.’”, or commonly, “I love Plato, but I love the truth more.”
For 6 years I worked in anatomical pathology specializing in histopathology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histopathology, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histology). I was trained at the AFIP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forc ... _Pathology) which at one point was the mecca for studying and diagnosing rare disease. Since its decentralization the primary functions of the AFIP have been relocated primarily to Bethesda and various other areas of the United States.
For 10 years I have been independently studying psychology, primarily the relationship between nutrition and psychology and its implications in sociological patterns.
For 5 years I have been independently studying nutrition.
I came across Dr. Peat's several years ago when thinking about intelligence and culture. I had noticed that in observing different nutrition cult-ures that overall different groups seem to exhibit different patterns of reasoning, logic, and behavior, that were exclusive to that group that couldn't be explained simply by psychology alone, and that, all different nutritional cultures follow the same basic pattern of development from the original idea to its development into a new culture. As I began to understand "nutrition" in the familiar definition of the word, I began to experiment with different diets noting how they affected my psychology. Those observations and experiences form the foundation of my main work which is describing how nutrition impacts sociological behavior.
In my free time I am a father, husband, and I train in the Olympic lifts, the snatch, and clean and jerk, using the Bulgarian and Chinese training systems.
Terms of Service
I have not yet decided about how active I will be in this forum, as I have been reading through old threads, well, there is only a certain level of dogmatism I'm willing to tolerate before it becomes unproductive in discussion. And that is not meant in a negative way. I would hope that others would feel the same with their valuable and limited time. If there is one thing you can count on as a user of this forum is that I will be honest, and I will not beat around the bush. I'm an opinionated person, and, as Kurt Harris said in a moment of clarity, "...opinionated people have opinions about a lot of different things..."
If you ask a question or if I participate in a thread, when appropriate, I will provide you with more than... "have you tried aspirin, have you tried niacin, have you taken thyroid, or any other of the canned answers most are familiar with", which absolutely deters a lot of curious people away from a rational approach to nutrition, rather I will try to be more specific. For example in another forum, there was one women who had a lab result come back abnormal which in some contexts would indicate leukemia, I knew that the women had a history of asthma, so she started asking questions, as I followed the thread there were people recommending that she take aspirin, I asked her if she had been taking aspirin and indeed she had been taking aspirin, in her case aspirin was responsible for the abnormal lab result and I pointed her in the direction of some literature on this topic and the health implications for asthmatics taking aspirin. Aspirin can be lethal for an asthmatic and people were recommending aspirin. In the end it is a person’s choice whether or not to follow the recommendations of another person. However, one must also remember that people who are suffering can sometimes make rash choices that can have a permanent impact on health, so I feel one should be responsible in giving advice so that the person can understand what they are doing before they do it, in other words, we should be just as responsible to ourselves as we are to others in giving advice.
This being a Ray Peat forum and knowing the spirit of his work and the positive impact it has had for many people I hope that it is remembered what Aristotle said: “For Plato says, ‘Socrates, my master, is my friend but a greater friend is truth.’”, or commonly, “I love Plato, but I love the truth more.”