You crave sugar because it provides instant energy, which lights up the dopamine center of your brain, reduces stress, charges the metabolism, and feels wonderful. 🍊🫐🍉🍯
"Sugar is like cocaine"
Babies naturally crave sugar.
Do babies naturally crave cocaine?
Does milk contain sugar or cocaine?
Every single mammal on earth consumes sugar from the day they are born, even our "carnivore" ancestors.
#Peatstr
Of course the body has a hormone called cokesol that naturally turns muscle into cocaine
Ah yes, that sweet poison! 🤤
Everything in moderation has its place and time.
That is a fairly reliable heuristic, although I would say that Americans ideal of "moderate" fat intake is wrong: we consume far too much fat, especially from PUFA sources.
30-50g of good saturated fat is enough, maybe a little more if you have tons of muscle.
0.7-0.8g of protein per pound of goal bodyweight, and then gentle natty carbs for energy otherwise.
I think if our body, or bee’s, are the first to process a minimal amount of sugar, we are good to go!
Sugar in the form of lactose, yes.
Sugar in the form of refined sugars and high-fructose corn syrup, no.
The only issue with refined cane sugar is the lack of minerals that go with it, as long as you provide them it's great
I barely consume refined sugar but for moments of acute stress it's very beneficial (a lot of it)
Problems with processed sugar :
A. Lack if minerals which are spent to metabolize food, especially high energy food like sugar. Fruit comes with minerals, and that's no accident.
B. Lack of phytonutrients which oppose dybsiosis. Consuming highly refined sugar, even natural cane sugar, leaves bacterial overgrowth unopposed.
C. High calorie malnutrition. The people eating processed foods loaded with sugar are rarely getting the cofactors needed (esp B vitamins) to support their thyroid and draw down their blood glucose, leading to chronic high blood sugar, which exposes folks to the type of inflammation that underlies diabetes. Natural sugars pushes folks in the direction of eating natural anomal products, especially organs which are rich in B vits.
D. Slippery slope to industrial sugar substitutes. With the problems above, it creates an opportunity for the food industry to wrongly demonize sugar by marketing sugar substitutes which, like seed oils, absolutely obliterate the metabolism. HFCS is the best of the worst because it is fairly natural, but it containd massive quantities of hidden starch which result in like a 3-4x sugar/energy consumption; one might consume a soda with 60g of HFCS a day, not knowing it has a glycemic impact of 240g of sugar. Your metabolism would have to be incredible to draw down that much blood sugar in short period of time.
Sticking with more whole, natural sugars generally leads to better health because it avoids these not so obvious traps.
#Peatstr
In the Ray Peat space, where people recover their metabolisms and work on their guts actively, drinking clean cola is a bit of a brag because it shows off their youthful metabolism as a result of their lifestyle.
Normies who haven't gone down the rabbit hole are better off sticking with whole, natural forms of sugars and starches.
Once you've got your thyroid and gut health under control, then there is room to enjoy some cola which can actually enhance energy and provide more buffer against stress. Just keep in mind "Mexican cola" is to the peat space what "steaks" are to the Bitcoin space: it's a subculture brag.
Don't forget hidden starches
I didn't. See the part about HFCS. It's a big problem in general and only metabolic beasts can tolerate it. Bad risk/reward. Not worth it IMO.
Oops, meant to reply to nostr:npub1wf4pufsucer5va8g9p0rj5dnhvfeh6d8w0g6eayaep5dhps6rsgs43dgh9.
So yes.💯!
Wen #peatstr #communikey nostr:nprofile1qqs2js6wu9j76qdjs6lvlsnhrmchqhf4xlg9rvu89zyf3nqq6hygt0spz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejz7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uygje4n ?
When we can invite nostr:npub1x458tl7h9xcxa66vr4a8pg0h2qz96pnhwnfpcra0le9090uk5t5qw7armt to create it in Zapchat 💪
I prefer to create content for all of nostr; group chats are expensive and, I've learned, don't really create any value.
It's not a typical group chat as information is not siloed. More like a nostr RPF.
It's for people who haven't figured everything out and would like to discuss and learn.
#communikeys is the solution to that (false) choice you describe:
Post to the public square, full reach, zero target
VS
Posting in a niche, but giving up reach
The new thing we can do with Nostr is letting you target each post (including all your existing ones) to an editable list of target Communitues.
Your post about sugars can be targeted at a "Peatstr", a "Laser Health" and a "Metabolism Go Up" community.
That way people in the Peatstr community can just get your high signal on Rays research there and not your Bitcoin stuff.
Without you having to tie your posts forever to one specific group (you don't own).
Is Nostr big enough for that?
Chicken and egg problem
I'm gonna start up "Chicken & Egg Solution" community.
So that I can target my chicken coop model for pastured Peatstr laying hens there AND in the "Peatstr" community at the same time.
And I'll onboard regen farmers and metabolism enthusiasts that way. Open, yet softly shielded off from all the crypto scamming and nerd talk.
All, just to prove my point 😅
For onboarding Communities the current nOsTr NuMbErS are a lot less relevant.
Ray peat forum is a good example.
What we're building offers something to the Georgi Dinkovs out there, that would run to the exit in 2sec without Communities that curate all the Bitcoin stuff out.
You don't onboard Communities to a inconsistent public square global feed.
You onboard them to a place where they can **be the global feed** in their niche, without giving up reach.
With the ability to interop with other communities and easily bootstrap new communities of off existing ones.
With no limit on the content types they want work with. All in one place, curated around a specific goal.
With not one publication held captive by the community.
We crave sugar to feed the screaming imbalanced gut microbiome. I was a 50 year sugar addict until I went 100% carnivore about 18 months ago. No longer do I crave sugar. My immune system has strengthened since healing my gut dysbiosis. Humans have more foreign DNA in their bodies via gut bugs, than in our own body's tissue composition.
In the absence of consuming sugar in any form, the liver will make all the sugar our bodies desire, but humans prefer ketone bodies (by-product of fat metabolism) over glucose for its main fuel. It burns much cleaner and greatly decreases our chances of cancer and many other modern dis-eases...🙏👌
What were your goto sugary foods that you would seek out on a binge? Any favorite products, brands, or places?
I’ve craved sugar so bad with this pregnancy (a girl) and I’ve grown another giant child, doctors were convinced again that I had gestational diabetes because my babies grow big and fast, tested multiple times but body deals fine with sugar. Fruit is what I crave the most, especially fresh juice!
Me too.
I passed all my blood work tests during pregnancy but still grew 3 large babies:
10 lbs 3 ozs
10 lbs 5 ozs
11 lbs 5 ozs
My OBGYN said modern blood testing is abysmal, as I definitely had gestational diabetes which didn't show up clinically. 31 years after my last baby I'm now carnivore. I'm 5' 6 1/2" and 121 lbs...
A very sustainable diet... 🥩💪
Wow, big babies! Congrats on getting them out!! I was sent to a diabetes specialist and they did multiple tests but nothing. I’m just under 6ft and 165lbs (when not pregnant) and my babies have both been between 9-10lbs so I don’t think they’re that big but here they seem to be extra cautious. Saying that I have a few friends similar height and weight to me, their babies have been nearly half the size of mine! I eat mainly whole foods; a lot of fat from dairy and meat and I eat a lot of fruit; berries, bananas and mangoes. Not sure, maybe it’s the high fat dairy I consume that makes them big?
