Coffee Done Right – Tips to Help Avoid Coffee Intolerance

Jun 4, 2014 // by Team FPS // adrenaline, B1, B3, blood sugar, coffee, cortisol, cream, energy, fruit, General, glycogen, hypoglycemia, intolerance, liver, magensium, metabolism, milk, minerals, niacin, nutrient, nutrition, protective, Ray Peat, stress, sugar, thiamine, vitamins // Comments Off

Also see: Caffeine: A vitamin-like nutrient, or adaptogen by Ray Peat, PhD Coffee Inhibit Iron Absorption Low Blood Sugar Basics Ray Peat, PhD on Low Blood Sugar & Stress Reaction Stress – A Shifting of Resources Sugar (Sucrose) Restrains the Stress Response Hope for Hypoglycemia: It’s Not Your Mind, It’s Your Liver by Broda Barnes, […]

Ray Peat, PhD on Nitric Oxide

Feb 15, 2014 // by Team FPS // aging, albumin, ammonia, anthraquinones, Aspirin, B12, bone loss, bystander effect, calcium, cancer, carbon dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, cascara sagrada, cell damage, circulation, co2, coffee, cortisol, Crabtree effect, diabetes, emodin, endotoxin, estrogen, fibrosis, free fatty acids, free radicals, gelatin, General, glycine, glycolysis, growth hormone, histamine, hydroxocobalamin, hypothyroid, inflammation, injury metabolism, lactate, lactic acid, leaky capillaries, magnesium, melatonin, NF kappa-B, Niacinamide, nitric oxide, nitric oxide synthase, NO, omega 3, omega 6, osteoporosis, oxidation stress, parathyroid hormone, pituitary, polyunsaturated fats, progesterone, prostaglandins, PTH, PUFA, pyruvate, quotes, radiation, Ray Peat, rogaine, serotonin, spider veins, stress, thyroid, varicose veins, viagra // Comments Off

Also see: Collection of Ray Peat Quote Blogs by FPS Collection of FPS Charts Master List – Ray Peat, PhD Interviews Protective Glycine Thyroid peroxidase activity is inhibited by amino acids Gelatin, Glycine, and Metabolism Gelatin > Whey Ray Peat, PhD on Endotoxin Bowel Toxins Accelerate Aging Ray Peat, PhD on the Benefits of the […]

Uric Acid as an Antioxidant

Oct 4, 2012 // by Team FPS // antioxidant, caffeine, cardiovascular disease, coffee, exercise, General, Honolulu Heart Program, Parkinson's Disease, purines, Ray Peat, schizophrenia, uric acid // Comments Off

Also see: Hypothyroidism, Gout, and Uric Acid Quotes by Ray Peat, PhD: “Lipid peroxidation is involved in the degenerative diseases, and many publications argue that fructose increases it, despite the fact that it can increase the production of uric acid, which is a major component of our endogenous antioxidant system (e.g., Waring, et al., 2003).” “One of [...]

Phospholipases, PUFA, and Inflammation

Oct 3, 2012 // by Team FPS // age pigment, Alzheimers, arachidonic acid, Aspirin, calcium, cancer, coffee, cytokines, dementia, edema, eicosanoids, endotoxin, estrogen, General, glycolysis, glycolytic, leukotrienes, lipofuscin, lipoxygenase, lung, neurodegeneration, nitric oxide, obesity, Phospholipase A2, PLA2, platelet activating factor, progesterone, prostaglandins, PUFA, serotonin, sickle cell, sunburn // Comments Off

Also see: Benefits of Aspirin Arachidonic Acid’s Role in Stress and Shock Dietary PUFA Reflected in Human Subcutaneous Fat Tissue Toxicity of Stored PUFA PUFA, Fish Oil, and Alzheimers PUFA – Accumulation and Aging Brain Swelling Induced by Polyunsaturated Fats (PUFA) Fish Oil Toxicity Estrogen’s Role in Asthma PUFA Decrease Cellular Energy Production Three important [...]

Factors That Can Lower TSH

Jun 30, 2012 // by Team FPS // adrenaline, aging, caffeine, coffee, cortisol, General, hypothyroid, infection, pituitary, thyroid, thyroid stimulating hormone, TSH // Comments Off

Aging, infection, trauma, prolonged cortisol excess, somatostatin, dopamine or L-dopa, adrenaline (sometimes; Mannisto, et al., 1979), amphetamine, caffeine and fever can lower TSH, apart from the effect of feedback by the thyroid hormones, creating a situation in which TSH can appear normal or low, at the same time that there is a real hypothyroidism. -Ray [...]

Coffee Inhibits Iron Absorption

Jan 18, 2012 // by Team FPS // cancer, coffee, General, heme, iron, non heme, Ray Peat // Comments Off

Arch Latinoam Nutr. 2000 Sep;50(3):243-8. New property of vitamin A and beta-carotene on human iron absorption: effect on phytate and polyphenols as inhibitors of iron absorption. Layrisse M, García-Casal MN, Solano L, Barón MA, Arguello F, Llovera D, Ramírez J, Leets I, Tropper E. One hundred and seventy four human subjects were studied to find [...]