Thank you!Yin foods are cooling, yang foods are warming and have a grounding effect on the body. I don't think Peat realizes how yin bodies are today, he is very old, he didn't grow up with the same amount of toxicity we have now. Yang veggies would be root veggies, carrots, all kinds of onions, daikon, leeks, rutabagas and the cruciferous veggies, golden beets and green beans. Nightshades can be a problem for some people. The squashes are more yin. Leafy greens as well. They contain more oxalates. Especially spinach and kale. Ray Peat recommended the raw carrot salad only to sweep the intestines but cooked carrots are actually better at absorbing bile. To him anything that feeds gut bacteria is the problem. After doing the low endotoxin diet for the majority of 10 yrs I am concluding that not feeding bacteria doesn't do much for health other than avoid symptoms. I still have histamine problems, I still have fatigue,I still have increasing cholesterol especially since I can't eat fiber anymore due to avoiding it for so long, and I still have the butt crack issue.
If I don't understand bad Peat isn't against consuming well cooked roots etc (those growing under earth), a more yang diet would be compatible with a "peaty" diet. I did eat raw greens everyday and I ate cruciferous while low carbing, the less carbs I ate the more I increased those kind of veggies. My problems with hair and undigested food made me finally change my diet. And my cholesterol was very elevated (both ldl and hdl).
My digestive problems have dessapeared, my hair and nails have improved a little (I think they improve with gelatin/collagen, supplemented vitamin/mineral while low carbing did nothing for them). But the psoriasis has come back... (I don't know how my cholesterol is right know)
I do eat kefir, I know Peat says sterile tube is the ideal and lactic acid being bad. But I grew up on lot of antibiotics (throat infections), and I'm not a big fan of them, and when eating fermented milk I have never feel bad. Also, raw milk has bacteria, and as far as I know he doesn't recommend not drinking it raw. I don't know if the lactic acid has made me any harm when I have eaten fermented milk, but I can't relate anything to it. (I think kefir helps digesting fiber, I couldn't at the end of low carbing, now when I eat something with lot of fibre, artichokes... I drink some kefir, no more undigested food).
The issue with starches is that I put on weight very easily if I remain on them as staple.
I have just read in this forum about ginger helping with histamine, maybe you coul try.
I always use coconut oil for everything, for psoriasis too, have you tried it for the crank?