@questforhealth ” This doesnt seem right to me. Im lactose intolerant and grass fed beef is expensive. So what am I meant to eat?? Chicken isn’t peaty and neither is rabbit or wild game really.”
Have you read any of Ray Peat’s articles? You can have immediate gratification eating beans as well as your peanut butter and many other things like supplements, but that doesn’t mean anything. It is the long term effects that I am concerned about in my diet. You can’t be the judge of if Dr. Peat was right when you are doing so many things he warns against. And chicken can be acceptable if you do like I do and stick to the the wings which is valuable because of it’s gelatinous skin. I boil the PUFA out of mine before broiling or frying them up in refined coconut oil. Wild game is a great meat to eat since those animals live naturally off of the land rather than eating an unhealthy diet of corn, soy, grains and antibiotics…
“While nutritional reference tables often show fruits and potatoes as having about 2% protein content, while nuts, grains, and legumes are shown with a high protein content, often in the range of 15% to 40%, they neglect to point out that fruits and potatoes have a very high water content, while that of the seeds is extremely low. The protein content of milk is about 3%, which according to the charts would suggest that it is inferior to beans and grains. In fact, the protein value of grain is negligible, mainly because seeds contain their protein in a storage form, that is extremely rich in nitrogen, but poor in essential amino acids. Special preparation is needed to reduce the toxicity of seeds, and in the case of beans, these methods are never very satisfactory.” -Ray Peat
”Animal proteins, and fruits, because they contain the lowest levels of toxins, should form the basis of the diet. Not all fruits, of course, are perfectly safe–avocados, for example, contain so much unsaturated fat that they can be carcinogenic and hepatotoxic.
Protein deficiency itself contributes to the harm done by toxins, since the liver’s ability to detoxify them depends on adequate nutrition, especially good protein. In the 1940s, Biskind’s experiments showed that protein deficiency leads to the accumulation of estrogen, because the liver normally inactivates all the estrogen in the blood as it passes through the liver. This applies to phytoestrogens and industrial estrogens as well as to the natural estrogens of the body. At a certain point, the increased estrogen and decreased thyroid and progesterone cause infertility, but before that point is reached, the hyperestrogenism causes a great variety of birth defects. Deformities of the male genitals, and later, testicular cancer in the sons and breast cancer in the daughters, are produced by the combination of toxins and nutritional deficiencies.” -Ray Peat
https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/vegetables.shtml
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