Paul Saladino· MD
linoleic acid and stearic acid are both 18 carbon fats they are nine calories per gram canonically speaking they do completely different things to our biology yes they are not the same in our biology
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linoleic acid and stearic acid are both 18 carbon fats they are nine calories per gram canonically speaking they do completely different things to our biology yes they are not the same in our biology
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we know from studies of seed oils that seed oils linoleic acid containing oils are going to affect human physiology much differently than oils like tallow which contains stearic acid and other blood chain fatty acids so all calories are not created equally in the fats
there are many good studies to suggest that certain fatty acids those being polyunsaturated omega-6 fatty acids like linoleic acid affect your physiology essentially in an endocrine like way differently than other fats
and we know that if you look at just within fat molecules whether you have an 18 carbon saturated fat which is stearic acid which we can talk about or an 18 carbon omega-6 polyunsaturated fat those do massively different things in the human body those are both 18 carbons right they're the exact same amount of carbons they're they're very similar molecules they're just different by three or two double bonds you know and so that's all that's different is just a few electrons in different orbitals on the molecule but they do massively different things in the body because these fat molecules we know essentially have hormone-like effects in the human body with the polyunsaturated fat being linoleic acid saturated fat being steric acid doing completely opposite things in our metabolism
these fat molecules we know essentially have hormone-like effects in the human body with the polyunsaturated fat being linoleic acid saturated fat being steric acid doing completely opposite things in our metabolism
because these fat molecules we know essentially have hormone-like effects in the human body with the polyunsaturated fat being linoleic acid saturated fat being steric acid doing completely opposite things in our metabolism
there are these food is information and Beyond macronutrients when we're talking about macronutrients we're talking about carbohydrates fat and protein generally speaking Beyond macronutrients even within the macronutrients like you said there are certain fats whether it's an 18 carbon omega-6 poly unrated fat which is linolic acid versus an 18 carbon saturated fat like steric acid the fats are signaling molecules for our body