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Took a stab at writing a Gilbert Ling intro article. Link below, 10-20min read

@anabology pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3193049/

@anabology It’s likely due to aromatization: “Thymus growth was inhibited by both doses of testosterone and by oestradiol, but not by DHT… The higher dose of ATD [aromatase inhibitor] did, however, significantly reduce the inhibitory action of testosterone on the thymus.”

Testosterone suppresses the thymus, underrated how hormone maxxing can nuke your immune system

"the belly is the reason man does not so easily take himself for a god" - Nietzsche

It's easy to claim that "it's all vibes" when you're riding on thousands of years of "not vibes at all" human cognition and genius.

"First you must concede that we speak of a unity that cannot be explained on the basis of matter as such. For it is a unity of the concept; this unity exists only in relation to an intuiting and reflecting being […] absolute individuality is in an organization, that its parts are possible only through the whole, and that the whole is possible, not by assembling the parts, but through their interaction; and this judgement cannot be made except by a spirit that reciprocally relates the part and the whole, form and matter, each to the other."

@ClassicalTheis in a sense, efficient cause vs final cause

If the lessons from Matins are instructive the answer would be: Literally, the Jews who rejected Him with the cooperation of the Romans. Mystically, you and me.

The small intestine isn't very sexy. But it's so unbelievably important to your health. It's the main way you interact with the outside world, absorb nutrients and prevent absorption of toxins. Nerves there connect to nerves around your whole body. It contains brain like tissue/neurons there, capable of communicating with your brain. The cells there can become permeable, be infected with harmful fungus/bacteria/parasites, and even negatively signal threats to your immune system. This isn't even scratching the surface either. Small intestinal health IS your health.

Regular consumers of microwaved foods all have a similar type of body odor

@DeoVindiceXIV @HiraethHayseed This is a noble thing to believe

@HiraethHayseed Alfred the Great was a descendant of Woden btw it says it in his genealogy.

Odin, son of Borr; Borr, son of Búri; Búri, son of Japheth; Japheth, son of Noah; Noah, son of Adam; Adam, who was called the son of God.

過去絵

philosophy, theology

@wylfcen How do you say “not taking the bait” in Old English

@texaspeat I think most find this out thru trial and error

I've found the high-liquid diet that's often oversimplified in the peatsphere doesn't work super well for me. While consuming nothing but milk, oj, coke, and broth is easy and fairly satisfying, my stomach usually just ends up absorbing it and swelling up. My temps suggest my metabolism isn't high enough to handle all that liquid efficiently. Incorporating more solid foods has improved my peristalsis and bloating. This post was brought to you by big JERF and trusting my gut.

@MiddleearthMixr The M4 Book edit fixes everything wrong with the original

no, but more importantly yes

"My approach gives priority to environmental influences on development, regenerative processes, and an evolutionary perspective. When biophysics, biochemistry, and physiology are worked into a comprehensive view of the organism, it appears that the degenerative processes are caused by defects in our environment." Ray Peat

To be familiar with Gilbert Ling's work creates the constant feeling that the framework of biology we are all immersed in is so foreign to reality that we do not even have the language to explain its true function

"It's because of quantum mechanics" is one of those non-answers that sounds good to laymen without informing, drives me nuts. The real answer is that the mathematics of space filling curves are universal regardless of scale, from bones to galactic superstructures to cabbages

Fred Kummerow outlived Ancel Keys by two years (102). A critic of Ancel Keys, he liked to tell the story of the time he had dinner with Keys. Keys ordered a steak. Kummerow said “I thought you don’t eat saturated fat?” Keys reportedly said “Oh that’s not for me, that’s for the people.” A lifelong critic of partially hydrogenated oils, he single-handedly got them out of the US food supply in his late 90s by catching FDA on a legal technicality (they failed to respond to his question in six months) and threatened to sue them for it unless they opened the path to rejecting their GRAS status, which happened quickly. I rented a studio apartment in his basement during this time and had lunch with him every Saturday, so I heard the stories about what was happening in the courts on a regular basis. I never estimated his saturated fat intake but he ate eggs and full fat dairy but relatively small amounts of meat, though he still ate meat regularly. One of his quirkiest nutrition habits was to measure the minerals he lost in his urine and adjust his diet and supplements to replace them. Evidently Keys and his enemies are all capable of living long lives.