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Some interesting quotes by Ray Peat on Water: "Q: So what water do you recommend people drink Dr Peat? Do you have one? RP: No actually. You have to go to or be near a glacier." "Well, at high altitudes, all of these long‐lived cultures in South America and the Caucuses and Nepal, they all lived at fairly high altitudes, and were surrounded by glaciers in most of the cases, so that their drinking water that was fairly recently high altitude snow which happens to be isotopically different from sea level water. It’s been refined by a repeated distillation as rain clouds going to higher and higher altitudes, it becomes metabolically stimulating light water whereas average water contains some of the metabolic flowing heavy water. But at the same time the atmosphere at high altitudes is very low in oxygen and so people retain more CO2 in their tissues." "It probably has some general biological function of sorting things out into slower metabolizers and faster metabolizers. But organisms with a big, high-energy brain definitely do better on low-deuterium foods." "But another thing about high altitude is that as water evaporates from the ocean, you get all of the isotopes pretty much coming off the surface of the ocean, heavy hydrogen, deuterium, as well as normal hydrogen, but as the water condenses, first in the coastal regions rising and cooling as it goes, it rains out selectively the heavy isotopes. And so the higher you go, the lighter your water is. And the first experiments were written up in Science News around 1950 in which they were making heavy water for theirnuclear industry, and they fed mice some of the heavy water and found that they had accelerated aging, turned gray in middle age and died young. So very little was done from 1950 until pretty much this century, but there is definite evidence that the heavy isotopes slow down biochemical processes, simply lower the energy production of the system, and you can make some improvement in your isotope balance just by, for example, choosing sugar beet derived sugar from the high country in the Midwest. Colorado, for example, if you could get all your sugar from a beets grown in Colorado, you would have a distinct advantage in isotopes over Hawaiian sugar, which is very rich in the heavy isotopes. And so a couple of companies, I think a Hungarian company and Chinese company are selling ways to produce light water cheaply and even selling bottled for, I saw on the internet, $10 a cup for the light water." "...but for many years I've figured that taking as much water as possible in the form of milk and orange juice, the cow and the orange tree are acting as filters." "Everything I have seen by L.G. Boros has been evidence-free hot air. The published lists of foods with deuterium content don’t seem to be the result of actual measurement, because the region where the food is grown makes a very big difference. I started to write about deuterium depletion about 10 or 15 years ago, mentioning things such as the much lower deuterium content of beet sugar from the central states of the US compared to cane sugar from Hawaii; I think it’s good to get your water mainly as orange juice and milk, because of its deuterium depletion. I decided to wait until there’s a more economical way to make highly depleted water and more research"

Vitamin D deficiency is an ignored epidemic, affecting more than 42% of the adult population in the United States. Tanning is one of the best ways to get vitamin D, but another great source is mushrooms. Here are the best ways to maximize vitamin D from fantastic fungi: 🧵 1/9

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere NOW is the time to soak up the last days of sunlight full of valuable ultraviolet and infrared light. Winter is coming. In the next 2-3 weeks spend as much time outside in the sun as you possibly can. You’ll thank me in December.

Figure this out and you solve fertility.

Just like you can too little or too much of certain macros (carbs, protein, fats), you can get too little or too much of certain wavelengths of light (visible, infrared, UV) - Infrared is like protein, most don’t get enough - Visible (blue) is like carbs, most get too much and the low quality - UV is like fats, often demonized, but it is the wrong fat in the wrong context that is bad, just like UV Not perfect metaphor but you get the point