The Ray Peat Survival Guide: Understanding, Using, and Realistically Applying the Dietary Ideas of Dr. Ray Peat Paperback – June 19, 2014

This book is very easy to read, understand and it can be read entirely in one or two sittings. It’s a good guide to Dr Peats research and suggestions for a healthy diet.I ordered The Ray Peat Survival Guide because I was looking for a way of eating that would be more healthy for me and help me feel healthy as well. I’ve struggled over 30 years, I tried Adkins’s, then Vegan, last, Keto and struggling with pain from Gluten, Dairy and struggling with Diabetes, IBS, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, Candida, mononucleosis, chronic fatigue, fybromyalgia etc…and with every diet I felt like I was starving. I was actually starving myself for real! I found out about Dr Ray Peat from my friend who was struggling and researched and found it in the internet. I love Joey Lotts book! I’ve read a lot about Ray Peat’s research and ideas. They feel right for me. Joey is to all of us, but especially with those who jump from diet to diet and treat like a religion of perfection and use it as another eating disorder. If that isn’t you, you can use this book as information. He suffered an eating disorder, he is honest about it, trying desperately to feel better and get healthy. He is warning those who can be honest with themselves, to be careful, lighten up and enjoy life. His message also, is that he admires Dr Peat for his brilliance and hard work on the subject of eating for your metabolism. Joey doesn’t agree on everything Dr Peat does, but Joey is honest. If you have read all the Forums and groups of Pro Metabolism Eating, then you know that what Joey is saying is true. People argue & defend it like a religion. Why? It’s the most flexible and pro choice plan I have ever in my 76 years seen. You choose what you wish to eat out of many things. Joey is very clear and honest about what he believes and what he doesn’t agree with about Ray Peats Pro Metabolic Eating. Over all, he is in favor of Dr Peat. But he doesn’t agree with how others interpret Dr Peats words.

Lott does a good job of explaining how he views Peat's researched ideas and why he may or may not subscribe to his ideas.Heard Peat on weekly talk radio shows years back and have used his website as one resource to find answers to thyroid, diet and hormones. I love Peat's teachings and feel there is definite truth for all in what he teaches us but some is just too much against what we're seeing elsewhere to take in as absolute truth.Lott validates my concerns and admiration for Peat but fails to mention that Peat has an intuitive knowledge of the female body and hormone system. I feel Peat could be a great help to some women going thru hormone or thyroid changes.Not sure if his views on sugar, and fish oil should be discounted or taken as factual. Over the years these ideas come to mind and make me wonder... The idea of allowing your body to decide and knowing your own needs for healthy survival is highly expressed and key here. Glad I read- many points to ponder...

This is not the first book I'm reading by the author but it is the first I read nonstop. Obviously this is a book for those who admire Ray Peat's work but Joey puts it, i.e. Peat's work in perspective. There are some facts or nuggets of wisdom that I picked up and I didn't think that was possible. I thought I pretty much knew what Peat had to say.So if you are thinking of incorporating Peats principles in your diet I highly recommend you give this book a quick read. The information flows so easily and concisely that you will probably not be able to put it down. I like Joey Lott's style of writing - he is able to explain and put across points without any needless wandering. A lot of it may seem like common sense but it still needs to be spelt out. It's also a great resource where Ray Peat's principles are summarised though that is not the intention of the book. You want to read this book after you have put in the effort to read Peat's blog.

This book is addressed to Peaterians of whom there are many. But if you are or have been a fanatical dieter its cautions may apply to you. Peat is an academic, a researcher on nutrition, who has become something of a phenomenon. There is a Ray Peat Forum and countless fans. Although Peat has never written a diet book and pushes no diet program some of his fans have found out what he eats and follow it religiously.Here is where Lott comes in, scarred from a dozen years of flitting from one diet to another and never finding nirvana. At the end of the dozen years he was miserable and unhealthy. That is because there is no perfect diet and following any fanatically and with a closed mind can cause trouble. We are all different. Food that one person can eat with pleasure may make someone else sick. So dump the gurus and the experts and listen to your body. Modify Peat’s nutrition information to suit yourself. If it makes you healthy and energetic and tastes good, eat it.If you are new to Peat or just heard a few things about him this booklet will give you an overview. A major weakness here is that Lott should have discussed more some of the research findings that support Peat. Because Peat turns most of what we know about good nutrition on its head we need convincing. Want to become healthier? Eat more and exercise less. Enjoy your steak, use the salt shaker, eat more sugar, because all this is good for you. Really? Lott gives you the results, not the scientific research. Peat’s website isn’t much help, filled with scholarly articles. Peat is not interested in telling you what to eat or how to exercise. He just lays out the information. If you watch him on You Tube you will find a quiet, modest man, talking about his research. Unlike Lott, he cites and attributes almost everything he says. Though don’t forget, even if scientists are the new high priests, they are sometimes wrong. Some 60 years ago Dr. Ancel Keys published research papers that supposedly proved a fat diet causes heart attacks as does high cholesterol. This news took the country by storm earning Keys a Time magazine cover. Fifty years later someone decided to look at his research and found Keys had cherry-picked the data, ignoring much information that contradicted his theory. Keyes died full of honors leaving our country fat, unhealthy and hooked on pills. Caveat emptor.So what to do? You are interested in improving your health, having a lot of energy and maybe a bikini body or six pack abs. If you want to boost your metabolism and shed all those ignorant food dogmas and find out much more about the Peat diet I recommend Kate Deering’s “How to Heal Your Metabolism.” It is a fine book with everything she says backed up by research, with hundreds of citations in the back of the book. She was also a victim of the eat less exercise more fallacy and she describes how she escaped. But be sure to look at peatarianreviews.blogpost.com for a critique of many Peat claims. It is ironic that our great grandma practiced better nutrition than our experts du jour. She was not afraid of saturated fat, sugar or salt and worried if her kids didn’t eat enough. So remember, don’t be a Peat fanatic. He's probably wrong telling us to avoid above ground vegetables or such fish as wild salmon. A resting pule rate around 50 is not good? I don't believe it. Avoid bread, pasta and rice, staple foods of half the world for thousands of years? I'd rather find out what healthy old people eat than what the food gurus are thinking. I've eaten all those "forbidden" foods all my life and am pretty healthy at 79.