#55: Bioenergetic Nutrition Basics | "The Ray Peat Diet" | Appetite and Metabolism with Ray Peat

Generative Energy Podcast

00:00 - Florida, Texas, cyberattack, "climate emergency," war with Russia, Putin, Biden
12:10 - Attempting to ground Ray's nutritional ideas, people copying Ray's work without credit
13:02 - Copying someone else before being able to become yourself, Wilhelm Reich, translation as an act of creation
17:27 - Eating as our closest interaction with the world, how Ray thinks about nutrition, body temperature
20:17 - Appetite and metabolism, voting of the intelligent population of cells
22:59 - Variety in the diet, hysteresis, memories in tissue, Rupert Sheldrake, cellular communication
30:41 - Is EMF capable of interfering with cellular communication?
38:39 - EMF causes cells to uptake calcium, vitamin D, and calcium help reduce intracellular calcium by lowering PTH
39:54 - Danny's take on basic requirements for a human living in 2021 based on what he's learned from Ray, is there an optimal amount of fat? Loss of subcutaneous fat and the look of old age, Randle cycle
47:22 - How do testosterone, progesterone, and DHT cause fat loss without increasing lipolysis and fat oxidation? Progesterone, thyroid, and magnesium reversing "addiction" and cirrhosis
52:50 - Hypothyroidism, gallbladder disease, light stools
53:54 - Ray on the importance of protein, albumin, proteolytic enzymes, easy to overdo the protein lowering thyroid function, gelatin, tryptophan
01:00:30 - Is there a base amount of carbohydrate for stress resistance in 2021?
01:02:35 - Sorbitol, prune juice, laxative, emodin, xylitol
01:05:52 - Alternatives if sweet orange juice isn't available? Tortillas, orange juice concentrate, sour orange juice contains more citric acid that can irritate a person's digestion
01:09:51 - Did they change the Mexican coke recipe?
01:14:01 - Regular consumption of liver, eggs, and oysters
01:16:37 - Why are liver and oysters difficult to digest?
01:18:59 - What brand of oysters does Ray use? How does he eat them?
01:20:25 - Salt and gelatin for sleep, the amount of salt for normal functioning?
01:23:16 - What's an optimal amount of calcium per day? PTH, uncoupling proteins, lithium
01:25:09 - Calcium vs. magnesium for suppressing PTH, magnesium absorption and retention in hypothyroidism
01:28:24 - Cytokines activating the stress systems because of the failure of energy
01:30:31 - What is Ray working on?