Can

Homo Ludens

[T3Uncoupled @T3Uncoupled]

Regenerating a severed toe joint (diabetic ulcer in a 77 year old Japanese man) after 17 months of daily bathing the foot in highly carbonated water at 37 °C for 15 minutes, followed by an iodine/sugar ointment.

[Caveman @cavepaleo]

Scientifically proven causes of CHERRY ANGIOMAS:

1) 2-butoxyethanol (2-BE)
Found in:
- Cleaning agents (floor strippers, wax removers, degreasers, glass and multipurpose cleaners, carpet and upholstery cleaners, laundry stain removers)
- Paint products (strippers, thinners, paints, varnishes, lacquers)
- Industrial products (hydraulic fluids, metal-cleaning solvents, printing inks)

2) Brominated flame retardants
Found in:
- Treated furnishings (foam furniture, mattresses, vehicle upholstery, carpet padding)
- Electronics (housings, circuit boards)
- Insulation (flame-retarded polystyrene)

3) Bromide-containing foods
- Nuts (Brazil nuts, pistachios, walnuts, chestnuts)
- Dried herbal tea ingredients (hibiscus flowers, strawberry leaves, chamomile flowers, rooibos leaves, yerba maté leaves)
- Spices and seeds (turmeric powder, cumin seeds, fennel seeds, black/white/green peppercorns, sesame seeds)
- Leafy vegetables and herbs (arugula/rocket, Swiss chard, tarragon)
- Rice
- Coffee beans

4) Other bromine-containing products
- Pool and spa chemicals (bromine sanitizers)
- Personal care products (bronopol-containing cosmetics and wipes)
- Fumigants (methyl bromide)
- Food additives (bromated flour in baked goods, brominated vegetable oil in drinks)

5) Other compounds
- Mustard agents (nitrogen mustard, sulfur mustard)
- Medications (tamsulosin, ipratropium bromide, cyclosporine, ramucirumab, infliximab, tacrolimus, mometasone)

[🌼🙂🍊 Peat Pillman @PeatPill]

Ray Peat's Coconut Oil Ice Cream. Quick side-by-side
First shown with no milk powder, it's harder and icier.
Second shown with milk powder, it's softer and creamy.

[Dang @metabolicdang]

Birds with a higher BMR tend to take more risks because they operate under greater energetic constraints (Mathot et al., 2014). Since these birds burn energy quickly, they cannot afford to wait for dangers to pass; instead, they must seek out "the most improbable, the most demanding, confusing, even threatening situations" (Peat).

For Adélie penguins, the extreme cold of the Antarctic creates constant energetic pressure. As their large colonies reach the limits of available energy (Ballance et al., 2009), competition for prey becomes a matter of life or death. This pressure compels a few highly energetic penguins to travel farther and take greater risks, fueled by an internal engine that refuses to remain idle.

In the documentary Encounters at the End of the World (2007), Werner Herzog portrays a solitary Adélie penguin leaving its colony and the food-rich ocean to march toward a distant mountain range. Herzog frames this as an existential figure "heading towards certain death," describing the action as "insanity," while scientists like Dr. David Ainley regard the penguin as "deranged" and "disoriented."

"But why?" Herzog asked.

During filming, icebergs B-15 and C-16 blocked nutrient-rich currents at Cape Royds and Cape Bird, diminishing phytoplankton growth by up to 95% (Arrigo & van Dijken, 2003; Wienecke, 2002). By 2006, bird colonies were experiencing catastrophic food shortages as these icebergs crushed breeding habitats and forced penguins to trek 60 to 80 miles over solid ice to find open water (Emmerson & Southwell, 2022; NASA, 2002). This led to nearly zero chick survival and a staggering decline in breeding pairs (National Science Foundation, 2001).

What Herzog perceives as "insanity" is a response to unsustainable energetic debt (Barracho et al., 2025). When the metabolic needs of a solitary penguin exceed what a starving colony can provide, its journey to the mountains becomes a fatal gamble.

With a body temperature above 100°F (Williams et al., 2015), penguins process information with high efficiency and possess a high density of neurons in their forebrains (Olkowicz et al., 2016). Under the crushing stress of the iceberg blockage, this neural capacity narrows into a singular focus. While the majority of the colony remains anchored to the coast, a high metabolic rate can trigger a sudden, sharp clarity of action (Thierry et al., 2014). This singular fixation begins to override the instinct to accept the mundanity of the pact, creating an internal divergence from the rest of the colony.

This solitary penguin stands apart.

Driven by an internal fire that demands movement over stagnation, the same fire shared with human seafaring and nomadic conquest, it prepares to exert its agency in a way the colony cannot follow. As it gazes back at its loved ones, its peers, and its old life for the final time, it turns and marches forward, never looking back.

In this moment, Herzog’s depiction parallels the "Rückenfigur" technique of Friedrich. Confronting a vast, inhospitable expanse of ice, the penguin mirrors the figure in "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" (1818), standing before a white, misty void that symbolizes the "sublime", a beauty so immense it is both awe-inspiring and terrifying.

When the cost of staying put equals the risk of venturing into the unknown, what seems like "insanity" becomes a definitive act of discovery. This was true for Erik the Red’s explorations toward the icy landmass of Greenland, for Leif Erikson as he crossed the North Atlantic, and for Flóki Vilgerðarson, who climbed the high mountain in the north and named it "Iceland."

High metabolic rates drive the desire to seek out challenging situations, allowing organisms to evolve and differentiate. While the pursuit of the impossible is often romanticized, it is the willingness to take definitive action, to march toward the mountains when the sea has failed, that fosters change and allows the fire of the organism to be fully expressed.

[WikiPeatia.org @WikiPeatiaOrg]

Women on the pill have been shown to prefer the wrong men, it kills their nose for immune-compatible partners. The reason smell can carry that much information: Luca Turin showed molecules don't smell like their shape, they smell like their vibration. Full article below...

[WikiPeatia.org @WikiPeatiaOrg]

Hero section is live!

Ray Peat, Hans Selye, Broda Barnes, Gilbert Ling, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Konstantin Buteyko.

Each slide puts their lifework/significance in the background. Tap through to their wiki page.

[🌼🙂🍊 Peat Pillman @PeatPill]

Today's Peaty Animal of the Day is the Albatross.
They spend years at sea without touching land and can drink seawater. Excess salt comes out of the nostrils in a concentrated brine. The sodium export depends on intense CO2 production, an example of Ling's view on ion exchange.

[🌼🙂🍊 Peat Pillman @PeatPill]

Today's Peaty Animal of the Day is the Red Colobus Monkey of Zanzibar.
They clear the gut of toxins by eating kiln charcoal from human fires. Not all of them do, but the behavior is most frequent in the heavy consumers of risky Indian almond and mango-tree leaves.

[WikiPeatia.org @WikiPeatiaOrg]

Next piece: the Roadmap.

9 steps in 3 phases: Foundation, Practice, Environment. Enough to get a working frame. Not a replacement for Ray's books, newsletters, or articles.

Also past 5k. Thanks for sticking with it while it was still a construction site.

[WikiPeatia.org @WikiPeatiaOrg]

Announcing complete WikiPeatia overhaul. New content, tools, wikis, and visuals are finally ready.

​Rolling out the new features over the next few days as I deem them complete.

[El @el7_77]

Life is the ultimate expression of "use it or lose it"

[Can @34cankrty]

@MetabolicHell After the first few weeks you can actually train not that hard and still gain. It just have to be lowish reps and decent intensity with 1-3 RIR. True failure may be optimal but it doesnt matter in the long run.

[Can @34cankrty]

@MetabolicHell @texugodum3l has some interesting ideas.

[J @JungianPeater]

There is no ‘meaning’ of life. Once you start grasping for such a meaning you must realize you’re a sick man. You’re like a schizophrenic who thinks there MUST be a CIA agent in his walls. It’s just not there and you shouldn’t even think or want it otherwise

[Danny Roddy @dannyroddy]

Significant mulch application cleared up some issues that I had thought were related to watering or fertilization; the roots were simply getting too hot.

"Plants are much healthier when the ground around them is covered with an organic mulch. We recommend 2" to 3" deep. Deeper is fine if the mulch is coarse."

— Gary Matsuoka

[Can @34cankrty]

@peatingmarius @lennartprimal Ich rede von der ultrahocherhitzt, pasteurisiert und homogenisierter Milch von Aldi/Lidl.
Also meine Frage ist eher sollte man lieber auf das homogenisierte Fett verzichten oder ist es die Vollmilch Wert trotz des homogenisierten Fett's.

[Can @34cankrty]

@peatingmarius @lennartprimal Hat das was mit dem Fettanteil zu tun? Also ist 1,5% Milch "weniger homogenisiert" als die 3,5% Milch? Ich rede von Tetra-Pack Milch

[Can @34cankrty]

@PiagetianPeater @BerbarianWizard Ist es wirklich so mühsam auf 14% runterzukommen? Hab mir als 20% fatty vorgenommen auf 12% runterzukommen 😎

[Metabolic M @Metabolicmonstr]

How to make a more satured, high polyphenol olive oil 🫒:

1. Place oil in the fridge at 3–4°C for one to two days, until part of it crystallizes or becomes solid.

2. While it's still cold, separate and discard the remaining liquid fraction.
That's it.

[Hawkeye Spirit @World_All_Alive]

Ray Peats whole testament is that there is a graveyard of scientists, innovators, humanists extending back 100 years, through the Soviet Union and even all the way back to Blake, of people being perpetually bulldozed by capital.