Practical guides for getting started, links to the best community spaces, podcasts, articles, and people worth following. Everything in one place.
Start here if you're new. Practical, no-nonsense guides covering what to eat tomorrow, how to eat on a budget, where to shop, and how to make this work in real life.
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The main Ray Peat community on Reddit. A mix of questions, food logs, protocol discussions, and links to Peat's original writing. Useful for getting started and finding old threads on specific foods.
Mostly carnivore-focused but overlaps significantly with the animal-based framework. Good for meal ideas, troubleshooting, and seeing how people handle real-life situations on animal foods.
Saladino-adjacent community. Closer to PMAB than strict carnivore — includes fruit, honey, and dairy. Good mix of newcomers and experienced people posting meals and results.
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Saladino's X account. Regular posts on animal-based eating, lifestyle, and research. Good for keeping up with his evolving thinking and new content.
One of the clearest communicators in the Peat-adjacent space. Posts frequently on energy metabolism, thyroid, and practical food guidance. Worth following if you want the deeper reasoning behind the framework.
Prolific poster on Peat-influenced research. Dense and scientific but consistently interesting. If you want the deep end of the bioenergetics rabbit hole, start here.
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Deep-dive episodes on pro-metabolic nutrition, thyroid function, and practical implementation. Probably the most accessible entry point into the Peat framework for people who learn through listening.
Saladino's podcast. Good for the animal-based side of the framework — interviews with researchers, practitioners, and athletes. The early episodes on organ meats and seed oils are still some of the best.
One of the earliest and most prolific communicators of Peat's ideas. YouTube channel covers hair loss, metabolism, thyroid, and diet. Unusually accessible given the complexity of the material.
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Peat's own writing, archived on his website. Dense, scientific, and written for an academic audience — but the primary source. If you want to understand where the ideas actually come from rather than secondhand, start here.
The main hub for Peat-influenced discussion. A decade of threads on every imaginable food, supplement, and protocol question. Search-first — most questions have been asked and answered many times.
Written explainers on organ meats, seed oils, the animal-based framework, and specific foods. More accessible than academic papers and well-sourced. Good starting point for Saladino's reasoning.
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