Also see: Mitochondrial Medicine Protect the Mitochondria C…

Also see:
Mitochondrial Medicine
Protect the Mitochondria
Collection of Ray Peat Quote Blogs by FPS
Carbon Dioxide as an Antioxidant
Carbon Dioxide Basics
Comparison: Carbon Dioxide v. Lactic Acid
Comparison: Oxidative Metabolism v. Glycolytic Metabolic
Promoters of Efficient v. Inefficient Metabolism
ATP Regulates Cell Water
Cardiolipin, Cytochrome Oxidase, Metabolism, & Aging
High Cholesterol and Metabolism
Low CO2 in Hypothyroidism
Protective Altitude
Lactate Paradox: High Altitude and Exercise
Protective Carbon Dioxide, Exercise, and Performance
Mitochondrial medicine
Low Carb Diet – Death to Metabolism
Low Blood Sugar Basics
The Cholesterol and Thyroid Connection
Thyroid Status and Oxidized LDL
Hypothyroidism and A Shift in Death Patterns
Light is Right
Using Sunlight to Sustain Life
PUFA Decrease Cellular Energy Production
PUFA Breakdown Products Depress Mitochondrial Respiration
“Curing” a High Metabolic Rate with Unsaturated Fats
Ray Peat, PhD on Carbon Dioxide, Longevity, and Regeneration
Altitude Improves T3 Levels
Mitochondria & Mortality
Altitude and Mortality
Lactate vs. CO2 in wounds, sickness, and aging; the other approach to cancer
Power Failure: Does mitochondrial dysfunction lie at the heart of common, complex diseases like cancer and autism?
Faulty Energy Production in Brain Cells Leads to Disorders Ranging from Parkinson’s to Intellectual Disability
Energy, structure, and carbon dioxide: A realistic view of the organism
Metabolic features of the cell danger response
When someone who has not been exposed to Ray Peat’s work, he/she can react with surprise when he/she hears that sugar, aspirin, milk/calcium, red light, salt, coffee, and saturated fats (to name a few) are recommended. This blog provides the foundational context required to begin to meaningfully interpret the 40+ years of writing from Dr. Peat.
The reason why the aforementioned therapies are important in a “Peatarian” lifestyle comes down to what I’m calling the Universal Principle of Cellular Energy but call the idea whatever you wish. The principle is universal in this way — it applies to all chronic health problems regardless of what medicine calls it. The thumbnail below attempts to provide the highlights of the concept.
The substrate that cells need to make energy comes from the foods we eat; glucose oxidation produces the most ATP and carbon dioxide relative to other substrates and is synonymous with youthfulness and good health. This is why the dietary sugar component becomes important and carbohydrate avoidance is illogical.
Cellular energy deficiency leads to decreased renewal and the rate of aging speeds up progressively as adaptation becomes increasingly imperfect as cells become exhausted. If the energy crisis is severe, it can lead to cell death. Aging and disease(s) are representations of the body’s unique series of adaptations to an energy problem. The needs of your cells guide what actions your physiology takes to survive. Your cells can only do what the environment allows so it’s up to us to provide the optimal environment for energy success.
The principle can serve as the base by which nutritional decisions or therapies can be implemented. It’s also helpful in recognizing where someone may have done harm in his/her past. If you’re in a health rut, start by recognizing factors that slow down energy production and learn how to oppose these factors with pro-energy foods, lifestyle change, and supplements. Chief among the anti-energy factors are estrogen, polyunsaturated fats, endotoxin, serotonin, nitric oxide, darkness, and radiation. Thanks to inspiration by Dr. Peat, the FPS blog provides information on all of these factors.
Supportive Quotes by Ray Peat, PhD:
“If we learn to see problems in terms of a general disorder of energy metabolism, we can begin to solve them.”
“A given structure makes possible a certain level of useful energy, and adequate energy makes possible the maintenance of structure, and the advance to a higher and more efficient structural level.”
“I started my work with progesterone and related hormones in 1968. In papers in Physiological Chemistry and Physics (1971 and 1972) and in my dissertation (University of Oregon, 1972), I outlined my ideas regarding progesterone, and the hormones closely related to it, as protectors of the body’s structure and energy against the harmful effects of estrogen, radiation, stress, and lack of oxygen.
The key idea was that energy and structure are interdependent, at every level.
Since then, I have been working on both practical and theoretical aspects of this view. I think only a new perspective on the nature of living matter will make it possible to properly take advantage of the multitude of practical and therapeutic effects of the various life-supporting substances–pregnenolone, progesterone, thyroid hormone, and coconut oil in particular.”
“Life interposes itself between the “poles” of energy flow, and the flowing energy creates organization and stru…