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…

Social 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.

My 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.

I 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.

When 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.

When 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.

What 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?

Salad has become such a polarizing food these days it can’t be discussed without also discussing various health and dietary ideologies along with it. Often used as a substitute for other foods when people on are restrictive diets, salad is (or can be) a very useful and delicious way to get the healthy nutrition we require as human beings.

Alcoholism 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

The thing that makes other fried chicken unhealthy is not the fat or the frying, but the type oil and the common wheat used. Frying foods in coconut oil turns them into a health food, and using spelt flour instead of common wheat will prevent any stomachaches or inflammation.

One of my dearest dreams is to again have a garden. There were a few years in my early thirties when I did have some space for a garden, but we also lived in the desert where summer temperatures would easily reach 115˚ F.

I 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.

The internet is full of trolls, drama queens, conspiracy theorists, and an army of cancel-ready soldiers. But in reality there are far more normal, kind, and wonderful people both in the world and online, and like I discuss in much of my work it is only that the former are just louder and more obnoxious that it even seems like there are as many as it seems.

Beavers 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.

Bread is a great source of most B vitamins, but one it does not have, which is probably also the most important, is B12. The reason bread does not have B12 is that B12 can only be made by bacteria, so the yeast used to make bread means that bread does not contain any unless it is fortified with it.

During a recent livestream someone asked me what some of the most common problems are that I encounter with those trying to get well. One of my main answers was trying to get people to stop using numbers and measuring apps/devices to track calories, macros, and other measurable data when it comes to food.

I cannot believe the absolute insanity that has orbited the coronavirus outbreak. There was a ridiculous map at the start of the outbreak which showed the United States as the most prepared nation for such a disaster, even though President Trump had only a year earlier destroyed the government’s official pandemic response team…

Root vegetables are some of the most healthy foods we can eat as human beings, though they are not always themselves packed with nutrition or thought to be nutritious. The benefit of eating root vegetables such as sweet potatoes, yams, or yuca (also called cassava) is that they have unique carbohydrates

Sex 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.

If 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.