r/raypeat

How do you guys adapt ray peat's principles to your life without missing out on a lot of cultural food or home-cooking from parents/family? do you guys have cheat days or always eat so pure 24/7? or adapt your recipes/change ingredients to be cleaner?

I'm asking this because its hard, mentally at least every time i go into a new diet or lifestyle, that has core principles that dictate or preach about what leads to longevity or health without committing or going all in, and inevitably failing completely and stopping all together. Im just curious how many of you just minimize PUFAS, incorporate sugar, listen to your body but still eat "bad food" in moderation or try to change what you can but 90% of the recipe is still considered not peaty approved here and there.

For me, I was never able to get tanned, I was constantly sunburnt since warmer months came, but now I am finally getting a nice tan 😄. Also i am effortlessly lean with high carb-medium/highish protein and low fat

Hi, I’ve been continuously struggling with acne since I was 13 (onset of puberty, I’m 24 yr old male). I was prescribed accutane at 15, and this fixed my issues for a while. However, after COVID came around, I started developing food allergens or histamine problems to some foods. I began to develop what I assume to be perioral dermatitis and back acne. I then slowly began to develop acne on my legs, and then my chest. The acne that I had before accutane was very cystic, but this diminished greatly afterwards. I would normally get small pustules and only little cases of cystic acne on my back afterwards.

I’ve been to the dermatologist before, but not much has changed. He prescribed me sulfur body washes, clindamycin cream, and generic cleaners and lotions. These did virtually nothing, and eventually he tried oral antibiotics. The first attempt was doxycyline and I instantly had anaphylaxis… Then we tried cephalexin, and all this did was cause fatigue and stomach discomfort. I eventually just gave up. He said he would have prescribed accutane, but I was leaving for graduate school, so he decided against it.

I have never been someone to use skincare of any sort because I thought everything came internally. All my skin reactions seem to come from foods. I became very invested in my diet over the years, but it didn’t help much. I’ve followed the general peat advice of eating such as: eggs, cottage cheese, raw honey, ground beef, ground lamb, liver, oysters, boiled deskinned potatoes, butter, salt, orange juice, coffee, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, carrot salad (coconut oil, white wine vinegar, salt) and milk. I followed this advice for multiple weeks straight, but something is obviously still agitated. The most obvious indicators are milk and orange juice, which I believe do trigger histamine and inflammation responses. It doesn’t matter if its organic, a2, etc, it still always causes skin agitation immediately and makes my nose stuffy.

Now, I have no idea what to do. The simple answer would be to try and avoid the irritants, but is there not a method to solve the issue? I’ve read of things like clearing out the small intestines or colon with active charcoal and coconut oil, but I don’t want to start throwing random treatments that may trigger more things. Also, my bowel movements are completely normal, and daily. I don’t get stomach aches or diarrhea, so I’m not sure if its possible to suffer from things like SIBO/leaky gut and still poop fine… I am getting tired of dealing with this bs while others can eat complete junk and have perfect skin. My face looks bloated and discolored, and I have ugly dark circles which is obviously very annoying. I’ll take any advice and am open to answer any specific questions in more detail. I am debating on trying accutane again, but I know that is frowned upon around here. The supplements I take currently are Vitamin D3, K2 Mk4, Thamine HCL, and magnesium malate. I’ve read people using things like lactoferrin, vitamin e, vitamin a, etc but again, this feels like throwing all sorts of things at the wall hoping to find a solution.

dont think there is a good way to know 100% for sure if u have a slow metabolism but I have a bunch of symptoms extremely cold hands and feet, had to go get bloodwork done when i cane back they said my thyroid was normal. I have to wear 3 socks to feel normal. feel like shit all the time except after meals or while bingeing. have been on cut for 3 months and have lost a lot of muscle and not too much fat. bunch of brain fog.

i do everything normaly tho, i sleep good thanks to melatonin and hydroxine, im on accutane i dont think that has to do with it, usually 10,000 steps. Diet is usually 4 eggs for breakfast and for dinner chicken or meat and i add some form of dairy and fermented food. I will prob stop taking omega 3 tho

is there something I’m missing am I genetically cursed or is it the lack of sugar I’m eating, im js not convinced Coca Cola is health. Sugar from orange juice sounds smart but coke sounds like ragebait to get more attention.

Carnivore is great I think, had a lot of success. I’m very fit, exercise quite a bit, hold a decent amount of muscle, can do pull ups, pistol squats, have ran 3 marathons, have zero metabolic illnesses, take no meds, having a great sweaty time on my stair master right now. I’m 5’8 female, 35yo 148lbs. Been doing carnivore very consistently the last 2-3 years. Def got the most quiet digestion and great muscle building. Came to vertical diet/Peat like way of eating simply because of what I read about cortisol, the adrenaline spike at night due to the gluconeogenisis, and waking up at 2am consistently for over an hour nearly every night. Also steadily decreasing overnight HRV, and longer and longer menstrual cycles.

Now I’m still eating my red meat and eggs, butter, salt, coco oil, Greek yogurt, but just a tad LESS meat, and have added in banana with lunch, jasmine white rice with dinner, and honey on my Greek yogurt dessert.

My last period cycle was 37 days. The DAY I added these carb sources, my period raged out of me the next morning 🤣like finally. Over the last week or so, my 2am awakenings have ended. My HRV has risen over 10 points in the overnight average, my body has dropped some puffiness and muscles feel and look better, skin seems tighter and abs even coming through more. And poops are easier.

Just sharing the changes! Not full on peating, but adding in some of his principles have given me pretty much immediate positive biofeedback in this short time!

Anyone knows any bodybuilders or bodybuilding plans in alignment with ray peat lifestyle?

I want to follow some plan and not stress my body at the same time.

So yesterday I had 1.5 liters of oj, 1 liter of 1% milk, 3 coffees, 100 gms of rice puffs (2gm fats total) , 3 wraps of homemade shawarma without oils added and a baked potato and 2 cups of watermelon.

Now I woke up so bloated and having water retention like A LOT.

What did I do wrong? This is my first time drinking so much oj but the weather was so hot and I was outside most of the day!

So basically as the topic says. I need some budget ray peat dishes. Have been doing lean ground beed (5% to 10%) with potatoes for a while and would still do it if it wasnt for sauces being made mainly from fat (creme fraiche or other variants). I add in some fruit eggs and milk although I prefer fruit juices if only the good ones werent as expensive. My goal is to stay around 2000 kcal and since I mostly only do one meal and snacks (not very peaty but I eat it all over the day) it can be relatively calory dense as long as it is filling. Im also on a budget which is kinda an issue. I could stay on 400 grams of lean ground beef + potatoes if any of you know sauces that go along well with the diet. I will also give the carrot salad another try since it is okay if only I wasnt allergic to it.

Last summer was my two-year no Pufa anniversary. It was also the time when I decided to build a tan after a few years of sun hatred.

First summer without sunscreen but with sun exposure in four years.

To my surprise, that became the longest-lasting tan of my life. My sun-bathing season ended in early September, but my tan all over my body lasted until the beginning of the new sun-bathing season, e.g., late April this year.

Throughout my life, my tan would last for a month, two months at most. Even when I returned from summer trips as a kid with a deep brown tan, I quickly went back to my pale self. Side note: I'm blonde, fair-skinned with blue eyes, probably II skin type.

Anyone else with some new superpowers after going the Ray Peat route?

Because I want to lose fat fast without tanking my metabolism and also deplete pufa from my body.
I will take 200mg of Thiamin

Any tips before starting ?

Veronica mentioned...

So i was wondering how to find out how much calories i should eat per day. I want to loose weight but to heal my metabolsim first i want to est at maintennace to heal hormones etc… but i dont even know what my maintenance is. I assume the online calculators are not trustworthy in Ray Peats view because they dont take in count what your temperature is and pulse so they only know height weight and activity which is not enough to know how much calories i should intake per day. What would be the right way to measure that ? I mean a person which walks weight and is tha same height then a different person but has an avrg temp 1-2 degrees higher than the other will burn more. So how do i find my exact calories needed?

purely listening to my gut. Cravings: 2% milk, exotic fruits/juices, chicken thighs as a distant third and mostly because I like to cover em in hot sauce. Feeling incredible, energy almost too high to the point that I train like an idiot sometimes and my joints tell me to pace myself.

It's been years like this, always coming back to these top 3 foods

mainstream nutrition can never comprehend how liberating it is to stop paying attention to all the noise, podcasts, blogs, research, influencers etc.

I’m not talking marathons just the odd 5/10k here and there. I really used to enjoy running and it got me in great shape but just worried it’s too stress promoting.

Opinions?

When i eat any milk product i feel inflamed. My body overheat. Is this about histamine intolerance?

Any tips for water retention? I live in Oklahoma and the Humidity is going to be between 60-70 percent for the next couple months with high heat. It straight up makes me sick and water logged, to the point I can’t really drink liquids, especially in the morning. I get bad brain fog and fatigue.

Is it worth it getting a diuretic OTC? Pounding Salt? The problem is if I drink coconut water or milk I just retain extra water, so I feel even more sick. Getting into a sauna helps temporarily, but I would have to do one every 12 hours with the humidity.

Any suggestions?

Hi how would yall rate my stack

Magnesium topical before bed
B1 100 mg after high carb lunch
Vitamin e liquid in the morning with fats
Glycine 4 MG before bed

I’m just eating 10% ground beef, white rice, and salt, and I’m feeling incredible. My brain fog and gut issues have vanished completely. My digestion has never been better, and I only have ghost wipes. It’s pretty much like my body completely digests the food.

However, is this diet even sustainable long term? It’s basically the lion diet, but with rice added, and I know many people who have followed that diet for years and say they feel amazing.

I’m curious whether I’ll eventually run into any deficiency issues with calcium, iodine, vitamin C, etc.

For context im 16 male 177cm 88kg and want to improve my health ive sumbled across ray peat online and wanted to know more about him and his approach ive tried to read his articles but it was very difficult as englisch is nowhere near my native language so ive listened to some podcasts and watched interviews on youtube with ray peat. I understand the principles of his work and what his goal was. So my diet was a mixed normal diet like they eat in germany and now want to aproach more carbs in the form of fruits, diary and honey with less protein then im used to eat. Im open to every disscussion and am happy for each awnser!
These are my questions:

- I want to loose 7%bf from 22%->15% how would Ray Peat aproach that ? (Im not growing anymore)

- Optimal breakfast/lunch/dinner or even before sleep meals?

- How often should i eat troughout the day?

- The macros ratio?(carbs, protein, fat)

- Ive heard that i will need to adjust to this high carb diet. How long does this take and will i gain fat?

- My Temperature/pulse measurements:
Wake up avrg: 36°C
30mins after breakfast: 36.5-6°C
16:30: 36.6°C

My pulse is avrg around 55bpm

Thanks for reading feel free to speak up if you want to!