The evidence that face masks are not effective in stopping the coronavirus pandemic has now led to new regulations in the operating room, where surgeons and their support teams will no longer be required to wear face masks.
“They just get in the way,” is a common complaint among medical professionals…
Read MoreLast year I had been spending some time with my parents. They are conservative and consume conservative media, and I have not had much of a relationship at all with them ever since they kicked me out of the house at eighteen years of age for being gay, after which I attempted suicide and afterward struggled with depression and alcoholism for many years (the main story of my book, Fuck Portion Control).
Read MoreSeveral years ago when I was active in online forums trying to help people, an insane lady yelled at me when I talked about how the amino acid tryptophan in milk converts in the human body either to niacin or serotonin, depending on certain metabolic conditions in the human body, where niacin promotes metabolic activity and serotonin alternatively slows down the metabolism, both regulatory branches which help to run human biology.
Read MoreA natural extension of my work has been an increased interest and preoccupation with agriculture, farming, and food production. One of the most noble professions, growing food is actually one of the most precarious foundations of human society, with the great majority of us taking for granted that a constant food supply is an easy feat to achieve.
Read MoreIn 1984 when I was four years old my family lived on the island of Oahu in the town of Kailua. My father’s sister was nannying for us, and my grandparents visited during Christmas. One of my very first memories (if not the first) is looking up with joy from my newly opened Christmas present—a large, Caribbean-blue, plush My Little Pony…
Read MoreIn the mid-90’s when I was in elementary school in Utah we had, each year, a visit from the local police department and volunteer teenagers from the D.A.R.E program to come into our classrooms to shame and scare us away from using drugs. As a direct consequence of their involvement when I became an adult and was addicted to alcohol it took 15 years and serious consequences of my addiction to finally bring me awareness of my problem.
Read MoreDuring the course of some research I was doing on the role of vitamin D in the course of tuberculosis infection, which used to be a major cause of mortality in the world and would frequently take half the members of entire families, I came across a surprising fact about polio which I had not known before, which was that while the effects of polio could be extremely devastating and result in lifelong debilitation…
Read MoreSocial media can be really great for a lot of reason, but it’s impossible to peruse instagram, tik tok, and other outlets without seeing a nauseating volume of garbage about changing your mindset to find happiness, practicing discipline and self deprivation for goals, or setting intention to change your fate and the function of the universe.
Read MoreMy family has a home video of me at nine years of age taken on Christmas Eve in which I tell one of my sisters they are going to be in big trouble if they don’t behave. I had a heavy lisp as a kid, and the clip is a serious source of laughter and has become somewhat of a catchphrase whenever memories of our childhoods are revisited.
Read MoreI have been doing academic research on human biology for the last six years, nearly every single day of my life since I started has been spent reading studies, taking notes, cross referencing, and then using that data in my personal life and to further my research. In my notes on gut health and microbial pathogens alone I have 717 studies. I have used more than 1,500 in the course of writing my books.
Read MoreWhen I was a young man and savaged by depression, having grown up in a notoriously bigoted and homophobic community of Mormons, my Dad said to me during an argument that nobody admirable in history had been gay.
Read MoreWhen my Dad was a young man he fell off a roof while working a construction job and herniated a vertebral disc. Thinking it wasn’t serious he had my other walk on his back in an attempt to pop or fix whatever was wrong, and the pain was so great it nearly paralyzed him.
Read MoreWhat is it by which you define success? Do you desire money, to build a large home and fill it with things? Do you wish to be a healthy young person blessed with virility and unburdened by illness? Do you want a family, or for your own family to grow up and realize their hopes and dreams?
Read MoreSalad has become such a polarizing food these days it can’t be discussed without also discussing various health and dietary ideologies along with it. Often used as a substitute for other foods when people on are restrictive diets, salad is (or can be) a very useful and delicious way to get the healthy nutrition we require as human beings.
Read MoreAlcoholism and addiction are a devastating disease which have been poorly understood until my work on it. In reality it is pretty simple to understand and treat, and I’ve put together a simple guide for recovery from alcoholism and addiction. Please refer anyone you know who is struggling with this condition. It’s free
Read MoreThe thing that makes other fried chicken unhealthy is not the fat or the frying, but the type oil and the common wheat used. Frying foods in coconut oil turns them into a health food, and using spelt flour instead of common wheat will prevent any stomachaches or inflammation.
Read MoreOne of my dearest dreams is to again have a garden. There were a few years in my early thirties when I did have some space for a garden, but we also lived in the desert where summer temperatures would easily reach 115˚ F.
Read MoreI was thirty-two years old and just beginning to really struggle with my health when I first heard that coconut oil was healthy. I didn’t know anything about thyroid, the endocrine system, or cellular respiration, and had never yet heard of Ray Peat, but the advice about coconut oil was convincing enough that I decided to try it.
Read MoreThe internet is full of trolls, drama queens, conspiracy theorists, and an army of cancel-ready soldiers. But in reality there are far more normal, kind, and wonderful people both in the world and online, and like I discuss in much of my work it is only that the former are just louder and more obnoxious that it even seems like there are as many as it seems.
Read MoreBeavers are fucking cute, and this is probably a completely unexpected topic for my website. But major ecological and environmental disasters occurring and threatening to occur are putting our very food supply chains at risk, and the consequences of the choices made by our progenitors can be traced to the roots of these problems we face.
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