these antithyroid oils were next marketed as "heart protective" human foods, though by suppressing the thyroid and destroying vitamin E, they actually contributed to both heart disease and cancer.
The meat industry had found that the polyunsaturated oils were valuable in animal feed, since they suppressed metabolism and made it cheaper to fatten the animals.
“Saturated fats, used regularly, reduce the immediate toxic antimetabolic effects of the stored unsaturated fats, but it takes a long time to change the balance of stored fats.”
“The same thing has happened with eggs.
In the 1930s, eggs contained a lot of cholesterol and very little PUFA. But every ten years or so, measurements have shown that the cholesterol content of eggs has been decreasing.
So that they at one time were a high cholesterol food and safe because of the low PUFA content. Now they're an extremely high PUFA food, with just sort of a survival minimum of cholesterol decreasing every decade for 70 or 80 years.”
When we consider the two sets of experiments together, their outstanding feature is the toxicity of the polyunsaturated oils, which in one kind of experiment suppressed metabolism, and in the other kind of experiment created a variety of degenerative conditions.
When, in the 1940s, a group of vitamin B6 researchers showed that the supposed "essential fatty acid deficiency" could be cured by a supplement of vitamin B6, it became apparent that the polyunsaturated fatty acids slowed metabolism, and reduced all nutritional needs.
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If vitamin E was essential for human health, and achieved at least some of its amazing effects by opposing estrogen, then the synthetic estrogen industry had a problem.
Vitamin E, like progesterone and aspirin, acts within the cellular regulatory systems, to prevent inflammation and inappropriate excitation. Since uncontrolled excitation causes destructive oxidations, these substances prevent those forms of oxidation.
A cat's brain is about the size of a crocodile's, and their oxygen consumption at rest is similar, despite their tremendous difference in body size.
Magnesium and potassium are mainly intracellular ions, sodium and calcium are mainly extracellular ions.
When cells are excited, stressed, or de-energized, they lose magnesium and potassium, and take up sodium and calcium.
#minerals
Some people who know about the involvement of calcium in aging, stress, & degeneration suggest eating a low Ca diet, but since we all have skeletons dietary Ca restriction cant protect our cells, and in fact, it usually intensifies the process of calcification of the soft tissues.
#health #nutrition
Arteries, kidneys, and other organs calcify during aging.
At the age of 90, the amount of calcium in the elastic layer of an artery is about 35 times greater than at the age of 20.
#raypeat
Around 1985, a big study in Hungary showed that lowering cholesterol with drugs caused a huge increase in the cancer death rate. Hundreds of publications appeared in the U.S. saying that wasn't possible, because low cholesterol is good, the lower the better.
When oxidized polyunsaturated oils, such as corn oil or linoleic acid, are added to food, they appear in the blood lipids, where they accelerate the formation of cholesterol deposits in arteries.
Hypothyroidism prevents the liver from attaching glucuronic acid to estrogen, and so increases the body’s retention of estrogen, which in turn impairs the thyroid gland’s ability to secrete thyroid hormone.
Hypothyroidism often results from nutritional protein deficiency.
The seed oil industry has been more effective than the sugar industry in lobbying and advertising, and the effects can be seen in the assumptions that shape medical and biological research.
A little later, the disease called steatitis or yellow fat disease was found to be produced in various animals that were fed too much fish or fish oil.
Both tryptophan and cysteine inhibit thyroid function and mitochondrial energy production, and have other effects that decrease the ability to withstand stress.
Magnesium is rapidly lost from cells in hypothyroidism.
Sugar, when accompanied by fats and minerals, as in milk, is needed to lower cortisol, and to maintain thyroid activity.
Aspirin protects cells in many ways, interrupting excitotoxic processes by blocking nitric oxide and prostaglandins, and consequently it inhibits cell proliferation, but the fact that it can inhibit FAS (Beynen, et al., 1982) is very important in understanding its role in cancer.