Paul Saladino· MD
you know like vitamin d and vitamin a and vitamin k are fat soluble vitamins well polyunsaturated fatty acids are really they're fat so they're fat soluble fatty acids so they accumulate so the more we eat the more they accumulate in all of the membranes of our cells so our cells have this lipid bilayer and that lipid bilayer is composed of phospholipid heads and then these two tails usually two or three tails that come off the phospholipids and those tails can be either saturated monounsaturated or polyunsaturated fats and so when we eat more polyunsaturated fat we accumulate more polyunsaturated fats in those phospholipids in the membranes of our cells so that i think is at the root of a lot of chronic illness especially when the membranes of a mitochondria which also have a cell membrane mitochondria are like these primordial bacteria that got incorporated you know hundreds of millions of years ago into the first eukaryotic cell and they become this power this power plant in the cell but the mitochondria have a membrane too and that membrane can become enriched in linoleic acid