During the course of some research I was doing on the role of vitamin D in the course of tuberculosis infection, which used to be a major cause of mortality in the world and would frequently take half the members of entire families, I came across a surprising fact about polio which I had not known before, which was that while the effects of polio could be extremely devastating and result in lifelong debilitation…
Read MoreSocial media can be really great for a lot of reason, but it’s impossible to peruse instagram, tik tok, and other outlets without seeing a nauseating volume of garbage about changing your mindset to find happiness, practicing discipline and self deprivation for goals, or setting intention to change your fate and the function of the universe.
Read MoreMy family has a home video of me at nine years of age taken on Christmas Eve in which I tell one of my sisters they are going to be in big trouble if they don’t behave. I had a heavy lisp as a kid, and the clip is a serious source of laughter and has become somewhat of a catchphrase whenever memories of our childhoods are revisited.
Read MoreI have been doing academic research on human biology for the last six years, nearly every single day of my life since I started has been spent reading studies, taking notes, cross referencing, and then using that data in my personal life and to further my research. In my notes on gut health and microbial pathogens alone I have 717 studies. I have used more than 1,500 in the course of writing my books.
Read MoreWhen I was a young man and savaged by depression, having grown up in a notoriously bigoted and homophobic community of Mormons, my Dad said to me during an argument that nobody admirable in history had been gay.
Read MoreWhen my Dad was a young man he fell off a roof while working a construction job and herniated a vertebral disc. Thinking it wasn’t serious he had my other walk on his back in an attempt to pop or fix whatever was wrong, and the pain was so great it nearly paralyzed him.
Read MoreWhat is it by which you define success? Do you desire money, to build a large home and fill it with things? Do you wish to be a healthy young person blessed with virility and unburdened by illness? Do you want a family, or for your own family to grow up and realize their hopes and dreams?
Read MoreAlcoholism and addiction are a devastating disease which have been poorly understood until my work on it. In reality it is pretty simple to understand and treat, and I’ve put together a simple guide for recovery from alcoholism and addiction. Please refer anyone you know who is struggling with this condition. It’s free
Read MoreI was thirty-two years old and just beginning to really struggle with my health when I first heard that coconut oil was healthy. I didn’t know anything about thyroid, the endocrine system, or cellular respiration, and had never yet heard of Ray Peat, but the advice about coconut oil was convincing enough that I decided to try it.
Read MoreBeavers are fucking cute, and this is probably a completely unexpected topic for my website. But major ecological and environmental disasters occurring and threatening to occur are putting our very food supply chains at risk, and the consequences of the choices made by our progenitors can be traced to the roots of these problems we face.
Read MoreSex is one of the most prominent themes of human life. Even before we even have sex hormones our lives are dominated by sex, unknowingly born into a world in which the adults are preoccupied and obsessed with sex and and sexual relationships, often abused or traumatized in their own childhoods by yet other adults who themselves were also abused, taught to deplore our bodies, distrust other people, and be ashamed and shame others for sex and sex behavior.
Read MoreIf we had any politicians with brains, we would not be having these kinds of debates, nor such impassioned struggle for basic rights and privileges of American citizens. Politics takes dealmaking, but many deals are so bad they actively imperil future generations, and politicians who make them should be voted out of office immediately rather than being lauded for bipartisanship or whatever bullshit political rhetoric is currently in vogue.
Read MoreI’ve decided to start streaming on YouTube to engage more people on my work. We’ll be talking about anything you want! Food, bacteria, health. Go to my channel and subscribe so you can be notified of streams.
https://www.youtube.com/natehatch
Read MoreIn the Summer of 1998 when I was seventeen I finally found some friends with whom I could be rebellious. It wasn’t my intent to be rebellious, but for most of my teenage years I had associated with a crowd of well-behaved kids from religiously conservative families, because that was expected of me, and they were some of the worst people I have ever met—
Read MoreWow, it has been almost six years since I first began this journey back to health and wellness. If you are familiar with my story (my book) you may know about how I contracted cancer and was dealing with alcoholism and the destruction of pretty much everything in my life as it all came crashing down at once. Or maybe more accurately the final culmination of health and wellness problems I’d been having for some time. But things got better once I
Read MoreAt the beginning of this year I saw the writing on the wall, and when most people were posting about their New Years resolutions I instead railed against the last decade of my life and the hardships I had to endure.
Read MoreWhen I was twenty I was living apart from my family. Two years before my parents had asked me to leave their home because I was gay and because we were not getting along on account of their harassment and persecution of me in refusing to be straight.
Read MoreThe degree to which we filter our life experience is by magnitudes far greater than we can really comprehend. As a human being we are designed to survive in a world where mortality is real, and can even come from ways as simple as stepping out into the street without looking, or succumbing to an invisible pathogen we never saw coming.
Read MoreMan, people are really mean about sugar these days. I had someone chew me out on Instagram recently after I took issue with them body shaming others, who claimed I was responsible for promoting diabetes, as if they actually cared about the people with diabetes whom they were just fat shaming.
Read MoreIn the ninth grade I broke my knee during tryouts for for the basketball team. Someone was playing dirty and knock me over, and my knee was the first thing to hit the ground. After surgery it took me nearly a year to recover. But even after all that time I still couldn’t run on it, and I wanted to keep playing a sport (especially one I liked). After some searching I finally decided to join the swimming team.
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