Category: Disorders

  • Dr. Raymond Peat’s Views on Ritalin, and How Ritalin Lowers Social Anxiety

    The first study on mice used a human dosage equivalent of about 10 milligrams for a person weighing 60 kilograms or 130 pounds. The researchers found that methylphenidate abolishes testosterone levels, impairs fertility and reduces the number of Leydig cells, which produce testosterone. The higher dosage, equivalent to around 50 milligrams, lowered testosterone less than…

  • The Link Between Salt and the Gut

    I’m not sure, if I can make milk work for me at the moment, feels like my metabolism is way too low to handle all the liquid. I’d need to eat waaay more sugar and salt in one sitting, to the point I feel thirsty or I feel really diluted or hypotonic, something like 3000kcal…

  • What to Do About Your Coconut Oil Intolerance

    I still can’t tolerate coconut oil, even after slowly increasing the amount. Where do you think I should get my fat? Dark chocolate? RAY PEAT FORUM MEMBER RRR, APRIL 14, 2016 Chocolate contains cocoa butter, which contains predominantly saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids, but many store brands contains soy lecithin, which acts as an emulsifier…

  • Last-Resort Tips for Tolerating a Sensitive Stomach

    The reason I’ve been avoiding coconut oil is that it just doesn’t agree with me, both unrefined and refined give me stomach pain and loose stools. The refined one is a bit better, but it still bothers me. The cheese I’ve been eating is low fat 5% cheese, I end up with 15g of fat…

  • Breaking the Stress Cycle

    Hey Dave, I know you favor cyproheptadine a lot but after thinking about your recent unpleasant experience, I wanted to send some information your way. I’ve been learning as much as I can about serotonin and signalling in the body, and it is some pretty deep stuff. Serotonin modulation is able to detect CO2 in…

  • Harm-Avoidance as Energy Deficiency

    “The fact that a taste of chocolate can provoke a wild lust for more chocolate, or that once cigarette renews the addiction, does not mean that the presence of chocolate or nicotine in the blood creates a craving. Rather, it is that an organism in an unstable state perceives the availability of something which promises…

  • Cyproheptadine: Pro-Social Autism Destroyer

    The portrait’s of “the Wild Boy of Aveyron,” Victor, who had undergone one of the earliest rehabilitation programs for autistic symptoms. Although behavioral programs have some success, it’s imperative that parents understand the real, measurable biochemical abnormalities in children with autism, which offers insight into potential pharmacological treatments, whether with pharmaceuticals or hormones.Here’s a post…

  • Depression, Cortisol and Male Pattern Baldness…The Buteyko Cure for Balding

    Depression has been associated with hair loss, and cortisol contributes to both pathologies (and heart disease) in males:“…MDD [major depressive disorder] and ND [non-depressive] individuals exhibited similar baseline and stress cortisol levels, but MDD patients had much higher cortisol levels during the recovery period than their ND counterparts.“SOURCE: Depression and cortisol responses to psychological stress: a…

  • Lamotrigine Accelerates Brain Aging

    Lamotrigine, an anticonvulsant used to treat bipolar II disorder (cyclical depression without mania) has been shown to extend lifespan but induce motor retardation as a proxy for brain aging. Other anticonvulsants, including lithium and valproic acid (Depakote) have beneficial effects on both longevity and healthspan. “The discovery of life extension in Caenorhabditis elegans treated with…

  • Anxiety Answers

    It’s well known that cortisol accelerates the aging process, and Dr. Peat has written extensively about the destructive effects of both prolactin and cortisol, where it’s ideal to keep prolactin under a lab value of 9.Buspirone, an anxiolytic medication used to treat generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) increases cortisol and prolactin concentrations, so it has detrimental…

  • T3 Treats Bipolar Disorder

    T3 treats major depressive disorder (MDD), and hypothyroidism appears alongside various neuroses including generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), phobias including social anxiety disorder (SAD), personality disorders (which often feature elevated cortisol and low DHEA), and lastly obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).This study shows that T3 can also treat bipolar disorder, both by itself or in conjunction with a…

  • Thyroid, Progesterone and Magnesium Shorten the QT Interval

    Many drugs, particularly antidepressants related to tricyclics can increase the repolarization time for the heart’s ventricles and prolong the QT interval, which can lead to ventricular tachycardia and arrhythmia, and in sever cases death in the form of torsades de pointes.Magnesium has been showed to shorten the QT and can potentially protect against the negative…