I googled Ray Peat, and he is someone with rather definite views about nutrition and biochemistry. Can I go against his advice in the other quote to read a lot of technical stuff, and ask those on LW who have done so, to say how they judge his ideas?
His ideas are all based on the Association-Induction hypothesis, which is a little known and iconoclastic theory of cell biology… however it seems to have a strong experimental basis.
His writing seemed crazy to me at first (almost like schizophrenic word salad, despite having graduate level training in biology), but I’ve spent much of the last year studying the papers he cites… and I cannot find any mistakes in his reasoning yet. It’s seeming more and more reasonable, but I think it’s better to use his writings to find new ideas about basic biology, rather than just follow his health recommendations without understanding them.
I’m planning a post on the Association-Induction hypothesis. It’s status is very similar to that of timeless physics: it’s largely ignored and unknown however it is researched seriously by a small number of academics.
I googled Ray Peat, and he is someone with rather definite views about nutrition and biochemistry. Can I go against his advice in the other quote to read a lot of technical stuff, and ask those on LW who have done so, to say how they judge his ideas?
His ideas are all based on the Association-Induction hypothesis, which is a little known and iconoclastic theory of cell biology… however it seems to have a strong experimental basis.
His writing seemed crazy to me at first (almost like schizophrenic word salad, despite having graduate level training in biology), but I’ve spent much of the last year studying the papers he cites… and I cannot find any mistakes in his reasoning yet. It’s seeming more and more reasonable, but I think it’s better to use his writings to find new ideas about basic biology, rather than just follow his health recommendations without understanding them.
I’m planning a post on the Association-Induction hypothesis. It’s status is very similar to that of timeless physics: it’s largely ignored and unknown however it is researched seriously by a small number of academics.