OS 16: Peptides BACK? Seed oil free tacos (good) in Brooklyn? Zitty influencer?
Plus a leftist pro-tofu powerlifter who knows more than many in the center and right
Happy Passover. The liberation holiday. Though I’d live in Cairo honestly. Sending this from VAUGHAN Ontario, where the Coca Cola is kind of made with real sugar, and where raw dairy is illegal, and where they have kebab places attached to gas stations.
What we cover here, for those new to the program: peptides, CASEIN protein, other (animal) protein, gelatin, linoleic-acid removal mechanisms, citrus-peel to the face and maybe blended up with some water, nicotine patches and the people that love them, nerve flossing AKA reverse Tai Chi aka high-level band work, thoracic spine mobility, post-DHT theories of hair growth, post-calories in/out models of fat loss, severe macros mastery, GHk-Cu and Wolverine, Dr. Raymond Peat, sunlight titration, EMOM workouts, pleasant-looking zero-drop shoes, vibratory therapy (movement), cotton head to toe, cave-person skincare, strength, curly hair, eye color lightening and more. Nobody who understands this writes about this. Snake Super Health Open Secrets.
This week: PEPTIDES BACK? the SCIENCE behind why the outdoor Snake Super Health group workout BUILDS MORE MUSCLE THAN COPE LIFTING AT AN INDOOR ROOF-CUCK GYM, the Times’ kill-shot on red meat, a commie/leftist powerlifter worth following… and the probably negligible effect that tofu has on test. levels… the prob. best taco outside Jackson Queens (and which is SEED OIL FREE) expands in New York… creatine overloading for mental stamina (including brain fog help), the Atlantic’s weird invocation to blindly trust a government agency, runners going for virality in the weirdest way possible, an influencer is accused of being zitty, some dignity in Gaza and the greatest, most injured MLB player ever might be back thanks to red light.
Onto it.
Main story this week has to be the scuttlebutt that the FDA, under RFK, is expected to let up regulation on peptides. As in make them available for Americans to buy through compounding pharmacies—as opposed to copping through whatsapp merchants in China. The groundwork, kinda, was laid down/hinted at/outright expressed in a suite of interviews by RFK over the winter on like bro podcasts—specifically a long talk with Theo Von in early Feb and an appearance on Rogan later in the month. (On Von’s, Kennedy spoke at length about how peptides are not correctly regulated by the FDA, and on Rogan the secretary hinted that “about 14” peptides would be made legal within “a few weeks.”)
The legislation… might just be a reversal of the regulatory measures enacted in 2023 on a number of then-new peptides. That legislation effectively made a number of peptides that are currently very popular—BPC 157, etc.—not permissible for compounding pharmacies to produce, due to lack of testing and safety concerns. (To get a peptide, you can either buy the bullshit yourself from China, for not that much cash, or can buy it premade, roughly, from a compounding pharmacy—so named because they make it—that’s stateside.) My guess… is they maybe/probably also speedrun retatrutide into legality as well?
There are a few ways to think about this. One, if this proceeds and works, it kneecaps the Chinese peptide market and makes stuff more available to American consumers. (This was addressed at length in a Snake Super Health podcast episode here.) Probably/maybe a good thing. But I do wonder how well regulated it’ll be once “legal,” and, more than this, what difference this regulation will make. I don’t want to be prescriptive here, but as I said in last week’s newsletter, you have to be very advanced and knowledgeable in pharmacology to competently set up a non-injurious peptides protocol for yourself. It’s just very difficult. You have to be even more well-schooled to set up one that gets you positive results. I’m not saying don’t do it. It’s just seriously tricky to do. On the other hand, the pearl-clutching on whether it’s too soon to allow this stuff to pass is a bit much. It’s a wild west, even for regulated items. Come on.
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Snake Super Health group workout last weekend was a smash—double digit worker outers, all levels—pull-up maxxers and beginners all the way up the gamut. Workout was a ladder—most are. For these workouts you do several reps below the number of comfortable pull-ups and then push-ups between. It’s a good way to get the blood flowing and nail down form and get some nice exhaustion while keeping gas in the tank. Fun way to get volume. Plus, research shows that working out OUTSIDE sends surplus calories to MUSCLE as opposed to FAT.
NEXT WORKOUT WILL BE NOON SUNDAY APRIL 3 AT COLUMBUS PARK CHINATOWN NYC. Open to all, all levels! Don’t be shy.
A run club in Gaza finally opens up again: they’re running there for the first time in two years. The shit we take for granted over here.
Grift dep’t: Alix Earle, kind of the OG get ready with me TikToker (she’s from Wall, N.J.), has a skincare line, and is getting heat for it since she’s been on accutane several times. Her response was that since she’s started using her own line her skin’s been better. Not bad. Maybe she’s just like eating 4 kiwis a day or doing the Snake Super Health skincare diet (listed here).
Trending dark health web news stuff this week is probably individuals super-loading creatine for mental effects: 30g a day to get rid of brain fog and arguably to help concussion rates. Probably half true or 80% true, though to me the analog intervention here is to eat a lot of herring, red meat, yogurt, spinach.
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This Times story, ostensibly about how red meat (as a way of thinking) is bad, is thorough, and has a fascinating line or two down at the bottom:
Many of today’s meat evangelists deploy scientific language without the complications of science: proof and doubt. That’s not scientific, it’s scientistic. Because scientistic language sounds smart and unassailable, it can function as religion in a secular culture that values knowledge, said Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, a professor of public policy at the University of Southern California who has studied American culture and social aspiration. Scientism appeals to a society that pursues good health via readouts from apps. The obsession around meat, Currid-Halkett adds, is linked to “the rise of longevity experts and reaching your potential.”
It’s true. The story has “pro-meat influencers” in its bullseye. Some, many, maybe most of the claims from them regarding red meat are not exactly double blind or scientific. But why would they be? They are influencers. They are appealing to science, sure. But they’re doing so in a social media post. Isn’t it on the professors that this shit is happening? I’d also say just about every sort of diet evangelist uses appeals to authority—studies, scientific language, technical language—without peer review. That’s how everything’s been working for the past at least 25 years. What’s new is that the no-necks are now doing this for meat. It’s not a knock on the article here—I just think journalistic skepticism is, as a way of thinking, so all-encompassing that it doesn’t allow for optimistic or counter-intuitive interventions into one’s diet. You doubt, and you doubt, and your diet stays the same. Narratively it’s fine, but you don’t elevate your diet that way.
I been saying that half of Trader Joe’s is poisonous! Stick to the parm and the frozen fruit!
I wrote a while ago about avoiding seed oils at restaurants—the funnest and most low-stress way to do this is not by going to “healthy restaurants” but to veer towards cuisines that naturally stay away from these oils, or dishes which are clean: Greek restaurants, pho, etc. Trad. Mexican, which is heavy on lard and beef broth, corn but not corn oil/veg. oils is another great option. A few spots like this in Queens; the best and cleanest one off my train is in Brooklyn, and is expanding
