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Ray Peat
Personal blog · raypeat.comhealthscience
Ray Peat's personal blog at raypeat.com covers health and science. Since 2009, 32 different Hacker News readers have linked it 72 times, most often “The Great Fish Oil Experiment”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Ray Peat
Most-linked posts?
- The Great Fish Oil Experiment4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2009-12-17
- /articles/articles/unsaturated-oils.shtml4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-05-02
- /articles/articles/unsaturated-oils.shtml3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-08-10
- /articles/articles/unsaturatedfats.shtml3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-19
- /articles/articles/sugar-issues.shtml3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-12-12
- /articles/aging/aspirin-brain-cancer.shtml3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-12-05
- Iron's Dangers2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-03-10
- Serotonin: Effects in disease, aging and inflammation2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-12-25
- Glycemia, starch, and sugar in context (2009)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-12-15
- /articles/articles/gelatin.shtml2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-23
What Hacker News says?
>Coconut oil is the least fattening of all the oils. Pig farmers tried to use it to fatten their animals, but when it was added to the animal feed, coconut oil made the pigs lean [See Encycl. Brit. Book of the Year, 1946]. https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsaturated-oils.shtml
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on “Soybean oil affects hypothalamus, causes genetic changes in mice: study (2020)”Submitted Caffeine: A vitamin-like nutrient, or adaptogen as a story · 212 points
HN discussionNo mention of methylene blue? :O It's the best one! Below is a post I wrote on a Ray Peat Facebook group that I think fellow coders and behind-a-desk workers might fight interesting. I've been a serious procrastinator and slacker, and it was a long journey of trial and error in getting diet and lifestyle right. I'm thankful to the amazing work of Dr. Ray Peat, which isn't mentioned enough around Hacker News. ⁂ Some…
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on “Nootropics”Submitted The Great Fish Oil Experiment as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSugar is not bad. https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/glycemia.shtml
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on “Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly”Submitted Glycemia, starch, and sugar in context (2009) as a story · 20 points
HN discussion"Starch and glucose efficiently stimulate insulin secretion, and that accelerates the disposition of glucose, activating its conversion to glycogen and fat, as well as its oxidation. Fructose inhibits the stimulation of insulin by glucose, so this means that eating ordinary sugar, sucrose (a disaccharide, consisting of glucose and fructose), in place of starch, will reduce the tendency to store fat. Eating “complex…
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on “Root cause of Alzheimer's may be fat buildup in brain cells, research suggests”Submitted Serotonin: Effects in disease, aging and inflammation as a story · 5 points
HN discussionTo me the article is very helpful. I aim to be in the global top 10-20% for the following areas: engineering, movement (functional capabilities of my body), martial arts (BJJ, maybe later MMA), nutrition, inner practice & discovering the nature of consciousness, art of learning and presenting. Combining engineering with one or two areas might be an interesting opportunity. The pool of software engineers who e.g. als…
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on “How to Become the Best in the World at Something”Submitted The Great Fish Oil Experiment as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGelatin is godlike http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/gelatin.shtml
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on “People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day”Submitted Iron's Dangers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTake it for what it is: http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsaturated-oils.shtml
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on “Mexican states are moving to ban the sale of junk food to children”Submitted Coconut Oil as a story · 2 points
HN discussionthat would be bad https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/iron-dangers.shtml
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on “What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to our health?”Submitted Glucose and Sucrose for Diabetes, Ray Peat as a story · 1 points
HN discussionArguably we have a problem of too much iron, especially supplemented in cereals and such, producing free-radicals that damage cells: https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/iron-dangers.shtml Ray Peat advice for men is to donate blood periodically to remove excess iron from our body.
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on “Why does iron deficiency cause fatigue, even in the absence of anemia?”Submitted Intelligence and Metabolism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRay Peat addresses the science better than anyone I've read. He's a biology phd from University of Oregon with a specialization in biochemistry, physiology, and endocrinology. Many of his ideas are not the mainstream but everything he writes about is extensively researched and cited. He has a number of articles on sugar but a good one to start with is Sugar Issues[0]. It can get a bit technical so I would recommend…
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on “The Liver: A ‘Blob’ That Runs the Body”According to Ray Peat, serotonin has many other functions in the body and increased serotonin can cause problems. Here is a good read: https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/serotonin-depression-a...
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on “Got food cravings? What’s living in your gut may be responsible”Ray Peat has an interesting essay questioning if they are really essential. https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsaturatedfats.shtml
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on “Benefits of the Danish transfat ban for coronary heart disease mortality”The opposite view: http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/sugar-issues.shtml . Ray Peat's argument is that polyunsaturated fats are the real culprit, and if you look at most sugar laden foods these days, it's difficult to find any that don't also contain a decent amount of PUFA.
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on “Is Sugar Killing Us?”http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsaturatedfats.shtml
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on “An aspirin a day keeps many cancers away, study suggests”I don't know if you're familiar with Ray Pete, but he writes about seed oils and the affect they have on our health. https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsaturated-oils.shtml You said that you suspect it is the heating of the oils, but even the oil found in ice creme has been heated somewhere in the process unless it is cold pressed. Can she eat sun flower seeds, olives or avocado without a reaction? Have you tri…
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on “Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus (2022)”It's probably not as clear cut as that. Studies at the bottom of this article. [0] http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/genes-carbon-dioxide-ad...
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on “Carbon dioxide peaks near 420 parts per million at Mauna Loa observatory”It seems appropriate to share an article of Ray Peat's here. https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/dark-side-of-stress-le...
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on “Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019)”I've mentioned Ray Peat's articles before on this site but if you've found this article interesting, have a look at some of his articles: http://raypeat.com/articles/
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on “More Evidence that Refined Carbohydrates, not Fats, Threaten the Heart”This article is the illustration of circular thinking: Linoleic acid is called essential fatty acid, therefore it is essential... Nobody challenges how it was decided that it is essential. https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsaturatedfats.shtml
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on “‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s sizzle fizzled in the US”Devil of a time digging up the original source, but here it is. > People who take aspirin, drink coffee, and use tobacco, have a much lower incidence of Alzheimer’s disease than people who don’t use those things. Caffeine inhibits brain phospholipase, making it neuroprotective in a wide spectrum of conditions. In recent tests, aspirin has been found to prevent the misfolding of the prion protein, and even to reverse…
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on “Scientists crack how aspirin might stop cancers from spreading”It's important to actually read sources when it comes to controversial people and topics, rather than trusting some Wiki's summation of something. The Wiki completely misrepresents what Dr. Peat said. "He made many other ridiculous claims such as avocados causing cancer.[8]" https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ray_Peat#cite_ref-Vegetables_8... Link [8]: "Vegetables". raypeat.com. Goes to: https://raypeat.com/articles/arti…
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on “Scientists crack how aspirin might stop cancers from spreading”
