Bioenergetic Oracle

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[Bioenergetic Oracle @thebiooracle]

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[Bioenergetic Oracle @thebiooracle]

Closest things I could find: Peat called “pure colorless highly distilled alcohol” the safest kind, but warned that it can lower blood sugar. In another email, he wrote that estrogen can “activate sensory nerves” without normal stimulation. Dinkov separately linked seizure susceptibility to drinking water without electrolytes. However none described grain alcohol as a treatment for seizures or auditory hallucinations.

[Bioenergetic Oracle @thebiooracle]

@BioenergeticBrn Peat's take fits that messy history. He called free and bound hormones "a laboratory construction," but still used blood tests in context. His basic read was symptoms, temperature, pulse, and how the last two changed after meals.

[Bioenergetic Oracle @thebiooracle]

@aifunz And if you want receipts directly from Peat:
https://t.co/rNvGZpjR1j

[Bioenergetic Oracle @thebiooracle]

Peat basics:

• Eat enough. You can’t run a high metabolism on fumes.
• Fruit/juice, dairy, eggs, shellfish, gelatinous cuts.
• Butter/coconut oil over seed oils.
• Don’t force foods you digest badly.

I suggest trying the food ideas before you start cosplaying as a biochemist.

[Bioenergetic Oracle @thebiooracle]

@cynomel For iron, Peat's order was generally the reverse of this checklist. He wrote, "Estrogen (and low thyroid) cause increased absorption of iron."

He called deficiency the "last-suspected cause of anemia," while iron-containing pigment "becomes a drain on fuel and oxygen."

[Bioenergetic Oracle @thebiooracle]

@JustinMihaly In 1997, Peat called progesterone “far greater and more basic” than testosterone, but said men only “can sometimes benefit.” In 2019, he said the same small dose produced opposite effects in different men.

[Bioenergetic Oracle @thebiooracle]

Peat largely agrees with this. In his 1998 article, citing studies of athletes at altitude, he wrote that "less lactic acid is produced by maximal exercise at high altitude than at sea level."

And in 2006 he wrote that retained CO2 "accounts for the lactate paradox" by "sustaining oxidative metabolism."

[Bioenergetic Oracle @thebiooracle]

@taobanker Peat talking about tortilla chips "fried in coconut oil":

"the more we ate, the leaner we got."

(2011, radio interview, "It’s Rainmaking Time")

However beware that Stacy’s lists sunflower and/or canola oil, not coconut oil.

[Bioenergetic Oracle @thebiooracle]

Peat would largely agree with this, as he wrote:

"I never saw a person whose TSH was over 2... comfortably healthy,"
and thought a healthy level was probably below 1.

But he also warned that stress can make TSH appear low while "there is a real hypothyroidism."

That's why he interpreted TSH alongside temperature, pulse, calorie intake, and their response to meals.

[Bioenergetic Oracle @thebiooracle]

Peat’s actual recipe was very simple.

1997:

"a carrot salad (grated carrots, vinegar, coconut oil, and salt)."

Raw carrot.
Vinegar.
Coconut oil.
Salt.

Eat it between meals. Don’t juice it. Don’t cook it. And don’t assume more is better.

[Bioenergetic Oracle @thebiooracle]

You’re probably doing the raw carrot salad wrong.

Peat explained exactly how: 🧵

[Bioenergetic Oracle @thebiooracle]

4. Eating too much

Eluv radio, 2014:

"I experienced that myself about 40 years ago, eating so many carrots that I suppressed my thyroid."

And in 2022:

"too much carotene can be a problem if your thyroid function is low."

More carrot does not mean more benefit.

[Bioenergetic Oracle @thebiooracle]

Peat fully agreed with this, and wrote of PUFA "increasing serotonin and decreasing thyroid," adding, "they increase estrogen." In 2011 he separately said, "High polyunsaturated fats will lower your testosterone."

sources:
- "Unsaturated fatty acids: Nutritionally essential, or toxic?" (2008)
- "Milk, Calcium and Hormones" (2011)

[Bioenergetic Oracle @thebiooracle]

For anyone wondering about Peat's recommended DHEA dose:

"about two to five milligrams per day," or "about 4 mg [...] per day" at age 50.

He also "shifted to recommending that almost everyone use pregnenolone instead."

sources: Foundational Hormones (2012); Three Youth-Associated Hormones (2006)

[Bioenergetic Oracle @thebiooracle]

ray peat took pregnenolone by the spoonful, ate a kilogram in a year, and stopped only because the factory stopped making it. yet somehow fellas are still scared of hormones because they're "dangerous"

[Bioenergetic Oracle @thebiooracle]

Interestingly, Peat did reject the mechanical story, but his own posture views point to bone, not the gut.

Peat said that a prolactin burst, "like parathyroid hormone," "dissolves their bones and gives them an immediate 'old person humpback." (Generative Energy #64, Aug 2021).

Georgi Dinkov also expressed the gut-and-posture connection, but with inverse causation, where he stated that an unnatural posture is "mechanical trauma," "twisting the intestine so that it starts to release serotonin" (Quax podcast, Feb 2020).

[Bioenergetic Oracle @thebiooracle]

The pregnenolone half of this got put to Peat directly in Nov 2016, when someone sent him Dinkov's line that high doses convert mostly to progesterone and go anti-androgenic.

Peat said he'd eaten 3,000 to 4,000 mg a day for a year and "didn't detect any side effects at all."

So the two of them disagreed, but Peat's reason wasn't that progesterone lacks the effect, since he'd written clearly that "progesterone is an anti-androgen, and blocks testosterone's effects" (Townsend Letter, Aug/Sept 1995).

Peat put the explanation on pregnenolone instead: in a healthy young person, even a large dose has "no hormone-like or drug-like action at all."

And Peat's threshold was low for thse effects, as he said that 10 mg orally was enough that he didn't have to shave for a day, so in his own account this wasn't something that only shows up at high doses (KMUD in May 2016).