Re: My age spots are increasing. I was hoping that, given the four-year half life of PUFAs, I would have excreted much of it out of my body in the last ten years of being careful. Tissues and organs do not all age at a uniform rate. Organs can be decades apart in aging, depending on the weakes... Read More

According to Medical News Today ... "Too little copper can lead to neutropenia. This is a deficiency of white blood cells, or neutrophils, which fight off infection. "A person with a low level of neutrophils is more likely to get an infectious disease." Copper is easy to acquire if you eat ... Read More

BIG SISTER wants you reamed, steamed, and dry-cleaned. The Nanny State's Salt and Sugar Police are down on the case. The Food and Drug Administration wants to take your salt away. <> According to the Oxford English Dictionary, one meaning of salt is ... "that which gives liveliness, f... Read More

Re: What do we need copper for, Atom? It would take an encyclopedia to answer that question. As a partial answer, here's an abridged and edited version of an entry in Butterflies Need No Taxidermist ... copper — (chemical symbol Cu), atomic element number 29 of the Periodic Table, one of ... Read More

Re: Can someone explain why Ray Peat allows oysters? Don't they have omega 3s? Ray Peat knows it's impossible to eliminate omega 3 fatty acids. You can only MINIMIZE them. According to him (2015) ... "Eating low-fat seafood (sole, whitefish, turbot, scallops, oysters, lobster, shrimp, sq... Read More