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Hello everyone,
I've been following the works of Ray Peat for the better part of 2 years and I have lurking around these forums for the past 6 months or so.
There is such a massive store of knowledge on these forums that I have not felt the need until now to signup. Whenever I needed an answer to something with regards to health, it usually could be found on here if I looked long enough.
However, now I very much desire to join the conversation and add to the discussion. Also there are some specific health issues that I am interested in that I would appreciate help with.
My Story
My own health story is one that is probably very familiar to a lot of people. I was very athletic and active in my late teens and early 20s. I ate pretty much anything I wanted and as much as I wanted as long as it was "healthy". By accident this meant avoiding PUFAs and actually involved a lot of sugar and protein. As a result I felt great and was in great shape pretty much effortlessly.
Unfortunately at some point I decided that I needed to 'perfect' my healthy eating and lifestyle. This led to a gradual restriction of sugars and carbohydrates, more and more exercise, fish oil, intermittent fasting, 24 hour fasting 48 hour fasting, cheat days, lots of fat, over supplementation with ineffective/dangerous supplements and, insomnia.
Of course I had the usual euphoric period as my bodies stress hormones went sky high. I felt energetic, was losing weight, got to eat massive meals in one sitting because of my fasting. I had discovered health and dieting nirvana!
Then, one day I woke up (after barely getting any sleep because I was so wired from fasting), looked in the mirror and realized all was not right. I had bags and dark circles under my eyes, I had put on weight despite constantly restricting calories and constantly exercising, my pulse was low, my hands and feet were cold all the time and my hair which had once been thick and brown had become fair, straw like and had started to recede. I was so confused, I was doing everything 'right', how come I was so unwell.
So I tried to discover why all this was occurring. It was in my search for what could be causing my hair loss that I somehow stumbled on Danny Roddy's blog and his article 'Sugar: Pure, white and Awesome'. My first reaction before I even read one sentence was, what?!!!, how could sugar be good for you, sugar is the bane of all existence, avoiding it is one of the commandments of health gurus everywhere, Sugar is one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse , this guy is nuts and I will be moving on. Thankfully cooler heads prevailed and I read the article. That opened up a completely new doorway into understanding about health and biology for me. From that article I slowly began to discover the ways of ray peat and started to peel back the dogma that had been ingrained in my brain for so long and led me to such an unhealthy state.
2 Years later and my health is so much better then it was before. It is still not perfect but it continues to improve and I must say that is in large part to Ray Peat, this forum and the people who contribute to it.
My Health Interests
While I am interested in all aspects of health specifically right now I am focusing on degenerative brain diseases mainly parkinson's and addiction.
I am actually in the final stages of writing a comprehensive treatment strategy for parkinson's disease, taking the view that it is a metabolic disease and using many of the treatments talked about in this forum and by Ray Peat in his writings. I may post it in a thread when it is finished so others can see it and possibly add any suggestions or give any feedback. I feel it is the least I could do considering that the vast majority of the information in it, I discovered on these forums. All I have done is compile the information together and presented in a way that is relevant for parkinson's disease. I also plan on making a similar document for treating addiction.
In the meantime if anyone could point me in the right direction on this forum to discussions on addiction and parkinson's I would greatly appreciate it. I have seen a lot of the studies posted by many users, but that has come from being quite direct in my searching of the forums, i.e. searching using the words addiction, and parkinson's. If anyone knows of any obscure discussions that they think might be related please let me know.
Also thanks a bunch if you've managed to persevere through the entirety of my very long winded post.
I've been following the works of Ray Peat for the better part of 2 years and I have lurking around these forums for the past 6 months or so.
There is such a massive store of knowledge on these forums that I have not felt the need until now to signup. Whenever I needed an answer to something with regards to health, it usually could be found on here if I looked long enough.
However, now I very much desire to join the conversation and add to the discussion. Also there are some specific health issues that I am interested in that I would appreciate help with.
My Story
My own health story is one that is probably very familiar to a lot of people. I was very athletic and active in my late teens and early 20s. I ate pretty much anything I wanted and as much as I wanted as long as it was "healthy". By accident this meant avoiding PUFAs and actually involved a lot of sugar and protein. As a result I felt great and was in great shape pretty much effortlessly.
Unfortunately at some point I decided that I needed to 'perfect' my healthy eating and lifestyle. This led to a gradual restriction of sugars and carbohydrates, more and more exercise, fish oil, intermittent fasting, 24 hour fasting 48 hour fasting, cheat days, lots of fat, over supplementation with ineffective/dangerous supplements and, insomnia.
Of course I had the usual euphoric period as my bodies stress hormones went sky high. I felt energetic, was losing weight, got to eat massive meals in one sitting because of my fasting. I had discovered health and dieting nirvana!
Then, one day I woke up (after barely getting any sleep because I was so wired from fasting), looked in the mirror and realized all was not right. I had bags and dark circles under my eyes, I had put on weight despite constantly restricting calories and constantly exercising, my pulse was low, my hands and feet were cold all the time and my hair which had once been thick and brown had become fair, straw like and had started to recede. I was so confused, I was doing everything 'right', how come I was so unwell.
So I tried to discover why all this was occurring. It was in my search for what could be causing my hair loss that I somehow stumbled on Danny Roddy's blog and his article 'Sugar: Pure, white and Awesome'. My first reaction before I even read one sentence was, what?!!!, how could sugar be good for you, sugar is the bane of all existence, avoiding it is one of the commandments of health gurus everywhere, Sugar is one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse , this guy is nuts and I will be moving on. Thankfully cooler heads prevailed and I read the article. That opened up a completely new doorway into understanding about health and biology for me. From that article I slowly began to discover the ways of ray peat and started to peel back the dogma that had been ingrained in my brain for so long and led me to such an unhealthy state.
2 Years later and my health is so much better then it was before. It is still not perfect but it continues to improve and I must say that is in large part to Ray Peat, this forum and the people who contribute to it.
My Health Interests
While I am interested in all aspects of health specifically right now I am focusing on degenerative brain diseases mainly parkinson's and addiction.
I am actually in the final stages of writing a comprehensive treatment strategy for parkinson's disease, taking the view that it is a metabolic disease and using many of the treatments talked about in this forum and by Ray Peat in his writings. I may post it in a thread when it is finished so others can see it and possibly add any suggestions or give any feedback. I feel it is the least I could do considering that the vast majority of the information in it, I discovered on these forums. All I have done is compile the information together and presented in a way that is relevant for parkinson's disease. I also plan on making a similar document for treating addiction.
In the meantime if anyone could point me in the right direction on this forum to discussions on addiction and parkinson's I would greatly appreciate it. I have seen a lot of the studies posted by many users, but that has come from being quite direct in my searching of the forums, i.e. searching using the words addiction, and parkinson's. If anyone knows of any obscure discussions that they think might be related please let me know.
Also thanks a bunch if you've managed to persevere through the entirety of my very long winded post.