Alfred Fortier

chud is one letter away from chad and the only thing that changes is u

This week I did another round of loading up on Twitter products. If you want to find the brands I’ll tag them below this post. Revivo Mango—hydration formula Lean stix—good ole meat sticks Barbarian Clothing—high quality gym gear. Not the fake kind that is just stretchy or cut like garbage I loved them all. I want to put it another way, because “of course you did.” But, I did. I don’t really like drinking hydration formulas. They usually taste a little funny. Granted, I prefer plain water to just about anything. Revivo messaged me after my order and told me to put it in yogurt or just eat it. Like toss back the dry scoop. I was thinking “ehhhh” but did it anyway. I really liked it. I also eat it in yogurt. It tases really good. The formula is very complete. I love electrolytes for everything and Revivo fucks. Leanstix—the best meat sticks I’ve ever had. I’m serious. I recently had Chomps and they were so dry it was hard to get through two of them. These have great macros and somehow taste amazing. I don’t get it. But they’re insane. Barbarian—I ordered a tee, a hat, some grey sweats, and a grey hoodie. The tee is cut well. Hugs the chest and arms, still looks effortless. The sweats and hoodie are thick material and didn’t shrink at all after wash. The hat is a hat. I like it, it fits my humongous head. Branding is cool but not cringey. I’m not affiliated with any of these brands, I don’t know the guys, and I bought the stuff, it wasn’t free. Given the dishonesty of reviews and circle jerking that goes on here, I don’t want you to take my word for it. I’m just going to give some of them away and then you can see for yourself. 3 products. 3 winners. If you win one of them, I’ll order it and send it to your house. Easy peasy. Retweet to enter. Give 3 awesome brands some more recognition and retweet this post to enter. I’ll pick 3 random winners sometime this week.

The longer I do my job, the less I’ve come to believe in will-power. Or at least, the less I am willing to place my faith solely within it. Some people are soft. Their mental toughness, their grit, non-existent; Even if they are a total shark in another realm. This is not an insult, but an evaluation in earnest. Some of these people come to me. Maybe it’s their fault, maybe it isn’t, but it is always a combination of biology and circumstances. So there is our solution. We need to tweak biology, tweak circumstance, or tweak both, according to priorities. We play the game in which we need to facilitate will-power. It’s a hard game. You can’t control everything. You can’t white-knuckle everything. You can’t “just do it” when “it” is totally at odds with your internal and external environments. The best example is the guy that gets cheated on, gets fired, loses it all, or whatever…and sublimates that pain into becoming a new man forever. Biologically and environmentally that isn’t even the same person anymore. He thinks differently. He moves differently. He reacts to the same stimuli differently. This is the importance of all of the self-experimentation and unconventional answers that don’t involve “just ______ bro.” Because as much as anyone thinks they’ve ever “just did xyz” there was almost certainly a way bigger picture they’ve failed to see. Permanent change requires either seeing it or not giving up until stumbling upon it. Embracing the same pain, over and over again, at some point only demoralizes. And sometimes it’s simple. Sometimes you DO just need to try harder and build momentum, and that will cause a butterfly effect that nudges biology and circumstance into place. But sometimes the problem is buried so deep that you need radical changes to ever jar it loose, and you have to be open to the possibility that you’re entirely wrong about everything, and that something totally unrelated may be causing it. That’s where the rogue experimenters, and maybe becoming one, brings tons of value. Normal ass people with normal ass solutions aren’t going to get you anywhere if they haven’t done so for years.

THE Ballsmaxxing Holy Trinity: Your balls are extremely sensitive to oxidative stress. Vitamin E, selenium, and taurine are your best tools to maximize testicular mass and sperm production. Vitamin E: Fat-soluble antioxidant that protects the testes and sperm cell membranes from oxidative damage by reducing lipid peroxidation. Widely studied for its ability to protect the testes when exposed to insults such as heavy metal exposure. Selenium: Key component of antioxidant enzymes like glutathione peroxidase, protects sperm and testes from oxidative damage produced by ROS. Studies have shown that pairing selenium with vitamin E enhances testicular protection. Taurine: Acts as both an antioxidant and osmolyte, protects the Leydig cells, Sertoli cells, and sperm membranes from oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction. Popularly used in post cycle therapy protocols to support recovery of testicular function.

I swear 90% of modern scientific progress is just this meme now

Ray Peat gets caricatured as anti-estrogen, anti-serotonin, anti-PUFA and pro-sugar. He did not recommend eliminating estrogen. He described a chronic elevation in modern environments driven by plastics and endocrine disruptors, industrial oils, inflammatory foods, endotoxin, stress, and low thyroid function. The approach is to lower exposure and improve metabolism so estrogen is properly cleared, with simple tools like supporting liver function, adequate carbs, raw carrots (binding and excretion), mushrooms (aromatase modulation), vitamin E, and reducing PUFA. On serotonin, the same pattern applies. Modern conditions increase it through gut irritation, endotoxin, slow transit, and diets high in muscle meat with excess tryptophan relative to glycine. This shifts serotonin toward a stress mediator. The approach is to improve gut conditions and rebalance amino acids, mainly through gelatin/glycine, rather than suppress serotonin directly. On PUFA, the issue is chronic intake and accumulation. Most exposure today comes from omega-6 linoleic acid in seed oils, processed foods, pork, poultry, nuts, and farmed animal products. These fats are unstable and prone to oxidation, especially once incorporated into tissues. The difference between wild and farmed fish reflects this. Wild fish are typically leaner with lower total fat. Farmed fish are fed diets rich in vegetable oils, which increases total fat and shifts composition toward higher linoleic acid and overall PUFA. This makes them a larger contributor to long-term PUFA accumulation. The issue is cumulative exposure, not a single meal. On sugar, the context is metabolic competition. The Randle cycle describes how elevated free fatty acids, common in high-fat diets or stress states, inhibit glucose oxidation at the mitochondrial level. When fatty acid oxidation is dominant, the body reduces its ability to use sugar efficiently, which increases blood glucose and insulin demand. High fat availability combined with sugar intake, or chronically elevated fatty acids, leads to impaired glucose handling. The issue is not sugar itself but impaired oxidation driven by fatty acids. There is no formal “Ray Peat diet” Compared to most elimination diets, it removes very little. It mainly avoids modern industrial inputs introduced with large-scale food processing, especially unstable oils and heavily processed foods, and focuses on supporting energy metabolism with simple, digestible foods.

Dorian Yates: “In my era, if you did not squat, your sexuality would be questioned”

My future wife isn’t on a dating app or in a club. Shes on MyFitnessPal, prioritizing her eating disorder and relationship with God.

my greatest ability in life is procrastination which eventually nosedives into the worst cortisol spike to get everything done immediately

She makes all my problems go away

they should have a special driving test for Indians that’s 10x as strict

its scientifically proven that actually believing something changes the outcome that's why no matter the situation you should NEVER utter the words "I can't do it" out of your mouth its against universal law

-Mike Mentzer -Dorian Yates -Ray Peat -Hitler

i will never test my IQ, i will never measure my testosterone levels, i will never get DNA tested. I am 160+ 1488 ng/dL 110% agarthan blood until proven otherwise

Peating is rooted in white supremacy

Speed up the metabolism. Heal the thyroid. Eat sufficient insoluble fiber to bind endotoxin, serotonin, and estrogen in the gut which all slow digestion. Abstain from eating foods that are designed to slow the metabolism like nuts, seeds, and leaves. Prioritize simple carbs over “slow digesting carbs”. Break free from the rot, malaise, and torpor that personify the modern yeast man

Vitamin D + K

Who ever named the peptide Melanotan, and not "Niggatrutide", really dropped the ball.