Vegetable oil consumption, particularly polyunsaturated fats like linoleic acid (omega-6), has increased dramatically in developed countries.

“Humans have never consumed this amount of linoleic acid in our diets before the last 50-100 years.”

“there is this evolutionarily inconsistent consumption of omega-6 fatty acids in the human diet in 2020 really over the last 100 years things that we never would have gotten because we never would have made seed oil”

“china about an eight-fold increase 1963-2003 and here's the issue here's the comparison of dietary fats for those who can't see it coconut oil butter palm oil and lard they're all very high in saturated fat and monounsaturated fat and very low in the blue category which is the polyunsaturated fat and then what you have on this graph is from peanut oil down peanut soybean olive oil corn oil sunflower flaxseed safflower and rapeseed all this blue staggering amounts of linoleic acid omega-6 fat that's what that is”

“The amount of linoleic acid that we're consuming as a westernized culture in the United States is 100% greater than it was 50 to 70 years ago.”

“overall westernized populations are anywhere from about six percent to 12 omega-6 linoleic acid”

“Um today that number is I mean it's probably closer to 10%. Yeah, I I believe the what I read because I actually read a book that was uh like anti-seed oil because I was trying to understand the arguments and uh the figure they quoted was a 75x increase in linoleic acid over the last like 150 years or so.”