[How to deal with a constant meat hunger?]

"Cheeses, of varied flavors, and some eggs, occasional chicharrones, occasional sea food, seem to do it. I think the iron in eggs and oysters can provide enough to prevent an iron hunger." Ray Peat, PhD

[Least inflammatory meat cuts?]

"Skin (chicharrones) and ox-tail." Ray Peat, PhD

[How to deal with a pollen allergy?]

"Coca Cola helps with a mild allergy, aspirin and antihistamines usually help." Ray Peat, PhD

["What's in coke that's helpful for it?"]

"Besides the sugar, caffeine, and CO2, I think some of the extractives of coca leaves and cola berries are antiinflammatory." Ray Peat, PhD

"I think the probability is that the US policies will strengthen the Russian-Chinese economies, and that Germany will see the importance of doing business with Russia. The US dollar was threatened by Iraq and Libya, but the US won’t be able to stop Russian and China from cutting their use of dollars; I think the dollar is approaching a disastrous loss of value."

Ray Peat, PhD

"Hi Ray. Do you think homosexual people can become straight with a correction of their hormones? Have you ever seen anything of the sort?"

"I’ve seen people change both directions with changing hormones, late teens and late forties." Ray Peat, PhD

[Feeling better after a fever?]

"I think a fever can be restorative, giving the immune system a boost and a clean beginning." Ray Peat, PhD

"As capitalism matures, Marx suggested that everything would be monopolized, and the people could then just nationalize the monopolies." Ray Peat, PhD

[Can pollution cause hypothyroidism?]

"I once experienced a few weeks of hyperthyroidism after leaving a polluted environment." Ray Peat, PhD

[Solution to that?]

"The detoxifying process is gradual, I think it’s best to get out of pollution as quickly as possible. Eating raw cabbage, or its juice, will quickly reduce thyroid effect." Ray Peat, PhD

"In Venezuela, Chavez put working people into officer positions in the military, and the army has resisted coups. Evo failed to do that, so the police and army immediately turned to the fascists. The possibility of nationalization of the lithium, oil, gas, and metals worried the corporations, now they feel safer." Ray Peat, PhD (2019)

[Does Progest-E keep well over time unrefrigerated?]

"Yes, I often use old stuff, it’s only the vitamin E that loses potency with prolonged warm exposure to oxygen." Ray Peat, PhD

"Unless the empire dies with Trump, Mexico could be franchised to death. With luck, a good wall will protect Mexico from an avalanche of refuges from the north." Ray Peat, PhD (March 2019)

"The crazy right-wing conspiracy theorists are right about almost everything." Ray Peat, PhD (2017)

[2019 question]

"Hi Ray. What do you think of Trump's tenure so far?"

"I think he might bring the empire to a close sooner than expected. As the rest of the world goes on with its business, the 50 US states could start looking like a big Gaza." Ray Peat, PhD

[2022 question - Can China and the global south rule the world without some of western tech?]

"I think “the west” is least likely to put technology to good use; the current trend has been to apply it badly." Ray Peat, PhD

[Mexico being a learning experience, improving optimism for you?]

"At the time that I first went to Mexico City, in 1955, the US culture was at its worst; I studied painting with Arnold Belkin, philosophy with Ramon Xirau, and when I came back I had a more optimistic feeling, an expanded sense of possibilities. That was why (in 1960) I thought an independent college in Mexico would be a good idea—the culture could support independent thinking. When I hear immigrants to the US describing their experience here, I see that their perception of this culture is very different from mine. The US that presents itself to the world, the advertisement, lives in the minds of millions of its inhabitants." Ray Peat, PhD (2019)