I think Ray Peat is one of the most insightful, cutting edge scientists, but when I read interviews and posts by Mike Mahler, a vegan bodybuilder or Mac Danzig, a champion mixed martial arts fighter who's a vegan, it makes me ask: How can Ray Peat be right, looking at objective science, and Mike Mahler, who is an example of being strong and healthy on a diet of beans, nuts, seeds, fruits, vegetables, olive oil and coconut milk, be a contradiction to Peatatarian eating?
Right now, I'm following RPs dietary guidelines and a week ago, starting taking 500mg of pregnenolone, daily, which seems to be improving my health more than diet. Up until 2010,(staring in 1995) I used to be an ovo-lacto vegetarian, though I didn't understand the science of creating a healthy diet. I ate way too much soy, too many PUFAs, ate huge salads, lots of fruit, a small amount of dairy and eggs, but for whatever reason, I was strong, reasonably healthy, worked a physically demanding job and had a strong libido, along with great erectile function.
I know Ray Peat isn't pushing a diet. He presents the science that shows how eating certain foods or food groups can interfere or suppress metabolic function, while other foods or food groups tend to promote metabolic function. Scott Jurek, the world class ultra marathoner, who grew up as a meat eater, over time, became a vegan, because he found it made him healthier and stronger. On the other side, Chris Masterjohn of the Weston Price Foundation, abandoned being a vegetarian and found improved health eating meat and full fat dairy. I like beans and rice and vegetables and fruit. It seems to agree with my body, especially my gastrointestinal system. I'm trying to resolve the contradictions between two scientific and philosophical positions. Maybe it's not possible. Perhaps, it's as Sly Stone wrote in his song 'Everyday People', "Different strokes for different folks."
Right now, I'm following RPs dietary guidelines and a week ago, starting taking 500mg of pregnenolone, daily, which seems to be improving my health more than diet. Up until 2010,(staring in 1995) I used to be an ovo-lacto vegetarian, though I didn't understand the science of creating a healthy diet. I ate way too much soy, too many PUFAs, ate huge salads, lots of fruit, a small amount of dairy and eggs, but for whatever reason, I was strong, reasonably healthy, worked a physically demanding job and had a strong libido, along with great erectile function.
I know Ray Peat isn't pushing a diet. He presents the science that shows how eating certain foods or food groups can interfere or suppress metabolic function, while other foods or food groups tend to promote metabolic function. Scott Jurek, the world class ultra marathoner, who grew up as a meat eater, over time, became a vegan, because he found it made him healthier and stronger. On the other side, Chris Masterjohn of the Weston Price Foundation, abandoned being a vegetarian and found improved health eating meat and full fat dairy. I like beans and rice and vegetables and fruit. It seems to agree with my body, especially my gastrointestinal system. I'm trying to resolve the contradictions between two scientific and philosophical positions. Maybe it's not possible. Perhaps, it's as Sly Stone wrote in his song 'Everyday People', "Different strokes for different folks."