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What is causing all the Metabolic Dysfunction?

nostr:npub14am887cf6kvwkce89nt7dsw3v9qrrn0uppxyvr6a2jd7xdwuwccqwnudp2 thinks it is linoleic acid in the mitochondria. If linoleic acid is a problem, then the following foods are bad for you: wheat, corn, walnuts, soy, sesame seeds, pumkin seeds, rice, pistachios, almonds, canoia oil, commercial chickens, peanuts, ... all of which the fat portion has >20% LA. Even egg yolks are 16%. It is hard for me to believe that the natural foods in that list are causing the metabolic problem.

My hypothesis is that humanity's romance with chemistry has produced thousands of variations of endocrine disruptors which are now all throughout or food, water and soil, and especially in plastics. People know about BPA, but all those "BPA-free" plastics just have different endocrine disruptors, possibly much worse ones. You can improve by sticking to natural and organic foods and using glass containers. But you can't eliminate your exposure.

Of cousre these are both just hypotheses with no good evidence behind them.

Dissident Sound 10mo ago

"If linoleic acid is a problem, then the following foods are bad for you: wheat, corn, walnuts, soy, sesame seeds, pumkin seeds, rice, pistachios, almonds, canoia oil, commercial chickens, peanuts, ... all of which the fat portion has >20% LA. Even egg yolks are 16%. It is hard for me to believe that the natural foods in that list are causing the metabolic problem."

let's take it one by one.

wheat - mechanically harvested, not "natural" food.

corn - GMO, mechanically harvested

walnuts - seasonal ( fatty acids remain in the body for months )

soy - mechanically harvested

sesame seeds - what percentage of fat do you think your ancestors got from sesame seeds ? i am going to go with zero.

pumpkin seeds - see sesame seeds.

rice - i don't know anybody who worries about fat content of rice.

pistachios - seasonal

almonds - seasonal

canola oil - GMO, mechanically harvested, mechanically processed

commercial chickens - fed a vegetarian grain diet instead of bugs and worms chickens are supposed to eat

peanuts - grow underground. i wonder how many people would dig into the ground to find them.

egg yolks - see chickens

all of your "natural foods" combined would represent maybe 10% of total fat intake in the diet of your ancestors. probably less.

most fat intake in human diet was from grass fed ( wild ) animals.

also THE DOSE MAKES THE POISON

it isn't that eating a walnut will kill you. it's that in a traditional human diet you would have 90% of fat from grass fed animals and maybe 1% from seeds. and in SAD ( standard american diet ) it's 90% from seeds and 1% from grass fed animals.

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