Paul Saladino· MD
Polyunsaturated fats like LA accumulate in human tissues. Our consumption of LA is massively higher today than it was 100 years and certainly much higher than throughout human evolution.
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Polyunsaturated fats like LA accumulate in human tissues. Our consumption of LA is massively higher today than it was 100 years and certainly much higher than throughout human evolution.
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they reckon the threshold you need is somewhere like half a percent of your diet is plenty 1% is what we got at random over million years
the traditional ancestral diet was around 1% linoleic acid approximately and now our average diet with modern processed foods and all these vegetable oils is around 10%
The number I've heard is around seven percent up to 15 percent
if you look at hunter gatherer tribes across the world it's pretty clear they're only eating about 2% of their calories as linolic acid when here today in America especially we eat 10 to 12 some some of us even 15% of our diets as seed oils and linolic acid in those seed oils
10 to 15% is the average linoleic acid in most of our diets today.
And yet today, people are probably getting 10 to 15% of their total calories from these things, right?
Um today that number is I mean it's probably closer to 10%.