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I don't know if you've read Brain Energy by Chris Palmer MD, but you'd probably really like it as a scientific confirmation of what you have experienced. I use

I don't know if you've read Brain Energy by Chris Palmer MD, but you'd probably really like it as a scientific confirmation of what you have experienced. I used to be ketogenic, but ultimately moved to consuming more simple sugar from fruit juice etc per Ray Peat.

astrange 1y ago
Note: Ray Peat is a crazy person who Twitter bro-science picked up, the kind of guys who were previously into keto and supplements that don't do anything. They're similar in that they love saturated fat and red meat, and think vegetable oils are bad, but he also wants you to eat ice cream and sugar. The ice cream part is possibly correct: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/ice-cream-bad-for-you-health-study/673487/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/ice-cre...
- aeblyve 1y ago
  More-or-less, I guess. The methods work well for my feeling good and functioning well. e.g., no more migraines, reduced intensity of springtime allergies, more energy, better resistance to stress, etc.
literalAardvark 1y ago
There's a very, very low chance that consuming fruit juice will improve health. Consuming fruit, sure. Juice goes (almost) straight to the bloodstream and messes up an entire range of things (digestion, liver, glycation stuff, etc).
- aeblyve 1y ago
  This is a belief that I held for years, leading me to avoid all of that stuff, yet increasing juice intake has been very helpful for feeling good and functioning well.
  - literalAardvark 1y ago
    Then increase fruit instead and get the best of both worlds.
IAmBroom 1y ago
"you'd probably really like it as a scientific confirmation of what you have experienced." So, bias confirmation? That is the opposite of scientific.
- aeblyve 1y ago
  I did use the bad word "confirmation", but I don't think it's harmful to look at scientific dialogue which aligns with what one experiences so as to understand that experience better, from new perspectives, find caveats, etc. If we believe that our personal experiences can be an ingredient of real knowledge about the world, etc

astrange 1y ago

Note: Ray Peat is a crazy person who Twitter bro-science picked up, the kind of guys who were previously into keto and supplements that don't do anything. They're similar in that they love saturated fat and red meat, and think vegetable oils are bad, but he also wants you to eat ice cream and sugar. The ice cream part is possibly correct: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/ice-cream-bad-for-you-health-study/673487/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/ice-cre...

aeblyve 1y ago
More-or-less, I guess. The methods work well for my feeling good and functioning well. e.g., no more migraines, reduced intensity of springtime allergies, more energy, better resistance to stress, etc.

literalAardvark 1y ago

There's a very, very low chance that consuming fruit juice will improve health. Consuming fruit, sure. Juice goes (almost) straight to the bloodstream and messes up an entire range of things (digestion, liver, glycation stuff, etc).

aeblyve 1y ago
This is a belief that I held for years, leading me to avoid all of that stuff, yet increasing juice intake has been very helpful for feeling good and functioning well.
- literalAardvark 1y ago
  Then increase fruit instead and get the best of both worlds.

IAmBroom 1y ago

"you'd probably really like it as a scientific confirmation of what you have experienced." So, bias confirmation? That is the opposite of scientific.

aeblyve 1y ago
I did use the bad word "confirmation", but I don't think it's harmful to look at scientific dialogue which aligns with what one experiences so as to understand that experience better, from new perspectives, find caveats, etc. If we believe that our personal experiences can be an ingredient of real knowledge about the world, etc