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As both a tahini lover and seed oil disrespectooor, this is a question I've thought about more than I care to admit.

imo, the tentative answer is somewhere in the middle. With the caveat that I'm not a molecular biologist and I could change my view.

Some of the worst aspects of seed oils in modern processed foods are that they are produced with extremely high heat in an industrial process that damages them, they literally turn rancid, and then various de-odorizing chemicals are used to mask that. There's a million red flags there. And they're in everything. I went down this research rabbit hole like 15 years ago, and then tested various diets on my own body with blood results and such.

Tahini is a more traditional food, able to be made with low-tech and lower-heat methods. Blended up sesame seeds is likely not the worst thing to eat on occasion.

It's kind of like how when people who are too sensitive to eat American bread go to Europe and can eat their bread without obvious consequences. Their breads are lot less acutely bad. They're probably nowhere near an "optimal performance" diet, but there's some damage control there. Same thing for like "Einkorn wheat" and stuff.

I went through a big ketogenic phase, and then seasonal ketogenic, etc. That's kind of where I'm at now: seasonal. I eat tahini only when in Egypt. It's so good, including with Egyptian bread which I otherwise try to minimize, and rather than having all our family meals have to revolve around me, I just adapt to the local diet, eat the parts I love, and then when I want to be more strict, I do it on my own time.

My rule for diets is to optimize them up until they cause stress. Once they cause stress, they start offsetting the good aspects.

And for me, dipping some Egyptian bread into some Egyptian tahini, is worth it on occasion.

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I've been working to heal my digestive system for a long time and have worked with a couple of ayurvedic doctors and an acupuncturist to get to a better place, after western doctors got me nowhere and did much more harm than good.

I've recently started easing my self-imposed restrictions somewhat, after a 10 year extremely restrictive diet, for a similar reason as you describe. It got to the point where the restrictions became counter-productive.

For example, an acupuncturist I've been seeing for a while kept warning me I was burning out my energy because the vegetarian diet wasn't enough to sustain my high energy needs as an endurance athlete, among other energy reqs ( I tend to push pretty hard in most aspects of life.) Sure enough, last winter I got sicker than I had been for as long as I could remember. I was out of gas.

Something else that your comment about eating tahini in Egypt reminded me of was reading that one reason digestive issues have become so prevalent is that western diets have such a wide variety of foods available to them, the digestive system can't keep up. (It also doesn't help that much of the wheat in the US is treated with RoundUp).

The seed oil mention makes sense too, as I've been trained early on to throw out any oil that begins to burn, e.g. ghee, olive oil, etc. Also cooking with honey is a no-go.

Anyway, thanks for the post and the space to expand some thinking along these lines.

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Is this expected behaviour?

I expected to see at least a small trickle of deposits to the Stratum address, as the Bitaxe is submitting shares and only a very small % of those shares are getting rejected.

Everything else looks good operationally as well.

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