Hi all. I didn't plan on dropping back into the forum, but I feel this interview is just too important and relevant to not share with people who've made it as far along on their own journey towards good health that they're now studying the brilliant work of Ray Peat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZZSLQFZnQM
Over the years I haven't known anything about Jack Kruse except what I picked up from the comments sections of various article across the web that he was an “anti-paleo” paleo dude, which interested me not in the slightest. However, my curiosity to check out his work was piqued by some very thought provoking comments he made at the bottom of the page of this article.
Needless to say, MIND BLOWN. As you can see in the video title, there’s lots of discussion in there about structured water, blue light, DHA, infrared, all that jazz. It turns out that he’s a big proponent of Gilbert Ling’s work, and gives him a number of shout outs during the interview. Also talks about Gerald Pollack’s work. At one point he discusses how carbohydrates become problematic the further you get from the equator (fascinating). What I liked most was his discussion about an organism’s environment, with particular emphasis on EMFs. The only thing that irked my ‘err-meter’ was I think somewhere around the 1h mark he said we need dietary DHA because the brain requires it but can’t make it. If I’m not mistaken, other ‘structures’ in the body are able to make DHA and deliver it to the brain, but it’s something I need to continue learning about:
http://edwardjedmonds.com/energy-and-structure/
He basically confirmed what I've been growing more and more convinced of over the last 18 months which is that living in multi-storey apartment buildings is seriously deleterious to the human organism (even more so now than just 20 years ago given everyone’s WiFi routers). Confronting the EMF aspect of the journey towards regaining good health is extremely overwhelming, to the point where your subconscious will try to steer you away from learning about it as a sort of self-protecting mechanism, but I urge you not to bury your head in the sand and ignore it. You might not be able to see radio and microwaves, but they are there, and they ARE affecting your physiology. You may eventually reach a point where you have to consider moving, but our current modern environments are completely out of whack with the environments we evolved in over the last however many years humans have been a species (religion v evolution v alien creators - I won't go there). Mark my words, electro-hypersensitivity (EHS) is going to be THE health problem in the coming decades. I recently devoured the information on these two very good websites:
http://www.emfanalysis.com/
http://www.emfwise.com/
Also check out a couple of documentaries on youtube called Resonance: Beings of Frequency and Take Back Your Power. Some things you can start doing right away: wear blue-blocking glasses at night and when looking at screens, get rid of your CFL light bulbs, pull your circuit breakers before going to sleep at night, try and get morning sunshine, get your skin in contact with natural earth surfaces as much as possible, put your cell phone on airplane mode when carrying it on your body, wire the internet in your home and turn off the WiFi, ‘ground’ your laptop when using it (search youtube), maybe think about buying the necessary meters to measure radio frequency, electric fields, and magnetic fields in your home (perhaps also a meter for measuring dirty electricity – likely an issue if you have a smart meter), wrap multi-layered alfoil around your smart meter if you live in a house and shield the wall on the inside of where the smart meter is located (lots of youtube videos about shielding smart meters, also a range of paints that block EMFs made by a German company called YShield), possibly look into buying a faraday canopy to surround your bed.
http://www.emfanalysis.com/is-grounding-good-for-you/ (make sure to read the comments as well)
I recommended to a forum member last year they might want to experiment with a grounding mat – I no longer stand by that position.
For the 8 or 9 years that I’ve been studying nutrition and health now, which has led me into physiology (I’ll never be able to ‘speak’ chemistry but I can live with that), I’ve picked up many pieces of the jigsaw puzzle along the way – saturated fat, CO2, sunshine, circadian rhythms, EMFs, light sources, thyroid function, Weston Price’s Nutrition and Physical degeneration, Nicholas Gonzalez’s individualized diets for treating cancer, many other pieces. But only now, having listened to this interview, am I starting to see how the pieces actually fit together in order to be able to see the bigger picture, which is that the electromagnetic ‘resonance’ if you will of a person, as influenced by the types of electromagnetism present in their environment, is what determines the affect that person’s diet will have on their body. It’s a new paradigm. It’s really quite thought provoking to hypothesize that had cell phone towers been present in the living areas of the indigenous tribal populations Weston Price studied back in the 30’s, they probably would have been sick despite everything else they were doing right. No wondering we’re all dying prematurely today.
Unfortunately, right now is not a very good time in history to be a human. We’re being attacked from all angles – GMOs, vaccines, radioactive fallout, body scanners, x-rays and cat scans, homogenization, food irradiation, water fluoridation, etc etc ad infinitum. But the most overwhelmingly of these, I feel, is the “psychotronic warfare” that is being waged on the ‘plebs’ through all of the artificial, non-natural EMFs that are now ubiquitous in the modern environment, which just a couple of generations ago were not present. The human genome is getting seriously screwed up. I do wonder at times if we are as a species on the verge of extinction. I’m glad I’ve never had any inherent biological/emotional desire to have children; my heart breaks for all the parents who are raising autistic children.
I will state that I do feel Ray's work, at least how it is being 'translated' on this forum (ie. high-carb, low-fat), is unlikely to be the "light at the end of the tunnel" for the average person. I'm seeing more and more reports across the web of former readers/members of this forum who ended up developing a restrictive eating disorder, which troubles me deeply. There may not be a Ray Peat diet, but there is definitely a Ray Peat Forum diet.
I think there is a lot of great information on this forum, and I myself learned s***loads in the year I spent studying here, but I encourage people to 'balance out' their reading of this forum with staying open-minded to Weston Price's findings in Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, the incredible results of Nicholas Gonzalez (sadly recently deceased) in treating cancer with individualized diets, former forum member Edward's blog, and probably Jack Kruse’s work which I will be devouring over the coming months.
Anyway, I'm not really trying to stir up any trouble here, just thought I'd share this with those who are open-minded enough to consider that a gallon of skim milk a day, a quart or two of OJ, generous amounts of sugar, some liver, some gelatin, and thyroid, aspirin and vitamin supplementation is unlikely to be a panacea for most people. Hey, who knows, maybe a year from now I'll think Jack Kruse is an idiot (unlikely). The take home point, however, is never stop learning information from new and old sources alike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZZSLQFZnQM
Over the years I haven't known anything about Jack Kruse except what I picked up from the comments sections of various article across the web that he was an “anti-paleo” paleo dude, which interested me not in the slightest. However, my curiosity to check out his work was piqued by some very thought provoking comments he made at the bottom of the page of this article.
Needless to say, MIND BLOWN. As you can see in the video title, there’s lots of discussion in there about structured water, blue light, DHA, infrared, all that jazz. It turns out that he’s a big proponent of Gilbert Ling’s work, and gives him a number of shout outs during the interview. Also talks about Gerald Pollack’s work. At one point he discusses how carbohydrates become problematic the further you get from the equator (fascinating). What I liked most was his discussion about an organism’s environment, with particular emphasis on EMFs. The only thing that irked my ‘err-meter’ was I think somewhere around the 1h mark he said we need dietary DHA because the brain requires it but can’t make it. If I’m not mistaken, other ‘structures’ in the body are able to make DHA and deliver it to the brain, but it’s something I need to continue learning about:
http://edwardjedmonds.com/energy-and-structure/
He basically confirmed what I've been growing more and more convinced of over the last 18 months which is that living in multi-storey apartment buildings is seriously deleterious to the human organism (even more so now than just 20 years ago given everyone’s WiFi routers). Confronting the EMF aspect of the journey towards regaining good health is extremely overwhelming, to the point where your subconscious will try to steer you away from learning about it as a sort of self-protecting mechanism, but I urge you not to bury your head in the sand and ignore it. You might not be able to see radio and microwaves, but they are there, and they ARE affecting your physiology. You may eventually reach a point where you have to consider moving, but our current modern environments are completely out of whack with the environments we evolved in over the last however many years humans have been a species (religion v evolution v alien creators - I won't go there). Mark my words, electro-hypersensitivity (EHS) is going to be THE health problem in the coming decades. I recently devoured the information on these two very good websites:
http://www.emfanalysis.com/
http://www.emfwise.com/
Also check out a couple of documentaries on youtube called Resonance: Beings of Frequency and Take Back Your Power. Some things you can start doing right away: wear blue-blocking glasses at night and when looking at screens, get rid of your CFL light bulbs, pull your circuit breakers before going to sleep at night, try and get morning sunshine, get your skin in contact with natural earth surfaces as much as possible, put your cell phone on airplane mode when carrying it on your body, wire the internet in your home and turn off the WiFi, ‘ground’ your laptop when using it (search youtube), maybe think about buying the necessary meters to measure radio frequency, electric fields, and magnetic fields in your home (perhaps also a meter for measuring dirty electricity – likely an issue if you have a smart meter), wrap multi-layered alfoil around your smart meter if you live in a house and shield the wall on the inside of where the smart meter is located (lots of youtube videos about shielding smart meters, also a range of paints that block EMFs made by a German company called YShield), possibly look into buying a faraday canopy to surround your bed.
http://www.emfanalysis.com/is-grounding-good-for-you/ (make sure to read the comments as well)
I recommended to a forum member last year they might want to experiment with a grounding mat – I no longer stand by that position.
For the 8 or 9 years that I’ve been studying nutrition and health now, which has led me into physiology (I’ll never be able to ‘speak’ chemistry but I can live with that), I’ve picked up many pieces of the jigsaw puzzle along the way – saturated fat, CO2, sunshine, circadian rhythms, EMFs, light sources, thyroid function, Weston Price’s Nutrition and Physical degeneration, Nicholas Gonzalez’s individualized diets for treating cancer, many other pieces. But only now, having listened to this interview, am I starting to see how the pieces actually fit together in order to be able to see the bigger picture, which is that the electromagnetic ‘resonance’ if you will of a person, as influenced by the types of electromagnetism present in their environment, is what determines the affect that person’s diet will have on their body. It’s a new paradigm. It’s really quite thought provoking to hypothesize that had cell phone towers been present in the living areas of the indigenous tribal populations Weston Price studied back in the 30’s, they probably would have been sick despite everything else they were doing right. No wondering we’re all dying prematurely today.
Unfortunately, right now is not a very good time in history to be a human. We’re being attacked from all angles – GMOs, vaccines, radioactive fallout, body scanners, x-rays and cat scans, homogenization, food irradiation, water fluoridation, etc etc ad infinitum. But the most overwhelmingly of these, I feel, is the “psychotronic warfare” that is being waged on the ‘plebs’ through all of the artificial, non-natural EMFs that are now ubiquitous in the modern environment, which just a couple of generations ago were not present. The human genome is getting seriously screwed up. I do wonder at times if we are as a species on the verge of extinction. I’m glad I’ve never had any inherent biological/emotional desire to have children; my heart breaks for all the parents who are raising autistic children.
I will state that I do feel Ray's work, at least how it is being 'translated' on this forum (ie. high-carb, low-fat), is unlikely to be the "light at the end of the tunnel" for the average person. I'm seeing more and more reports across the web of former readers/members of this forum who ended up developing a restrictive eating disorder, which troubles me deeply. There may not be a Ray Peat diet, but there is definitely a Ray Peat Forum diet.
I think there is a lot of great information on this forum, and I myself learned s***loads in the year I spent studying here, but I encourage people to 'balance out' their reading of this forum with staying open-minded to Weston Price's findings in Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, the incredible results of Nicholas Gonzalez (sadly recently deceased) in treating cancer with individualized diets, former forum member Edward's blog, and probably Jack Kruse’s work which I will be devouring over the coming months.
Anyway, I'm not really trying to stir up any trouble here, just thought I'd share this with those who are open-minded enough to consider that a gallon of skim milk a day, a quart or two of OJ, generous amounts of sugar, some liver, some gelatin, and thyroid, aspirin and vitamin supplementation is unlikely to be a panacea for most people. Hey, who knows, maybe a year from now I'll think Jack Kruse is an idiot (unlikely). The take home point, however, is never stop learning information from new and old sources alike.