Paul Saladino· MD
Ruminants are amazing animals that can convert PUFA in the diet into SFA- this is one reason that animal based diets centered on red meat are so powerful and work better than those that emphasize chicken or pork fed corn.
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Ruminants are amazing animals that can convert PUFA in the diet into SFA- this is one reason that animal based diets centered on red meat are so powerful and work better than those that emphasize chicken or pork fed corn.
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and it's not from ruminants it's from chicken and pork but it's mostly from vegetable oils
this linoleic acid has gone from 20.9 to 17.9 that's what i want to see i want to see linoleic acid going down this is a serum okay this is fatty acids in the whole blood right so it's not a red blood cell but i'm still happy to see linoleic acid declining in kurt's blood relative to this one
less pork less fat from chicken yes yes i've done a lot less of that lately in the last six months i've got rid of a lot of conventional pork even the pork i was getting from like the farmer's markets because i've been watching your stories and your your comments about pufas and so i've been just kind of steering more towards grass-fed beef and like my wild game that i'm hunting okay so that's probably that's probably what we're seeing here
I just eat red meat I eat ruminants because of whether it's lamb or beef or bison these are all very low linoleic acid obviously I'm eating grass-fed grass finished and regeneratively raised from farms like white oak belcampo Primal pastures here in Costa Rica grass-fed Costa Rica is a great Farm Etc
I think that's a better quality fat
And I wonder if you switched all of your fats to animal fats which again is just apostasy but uh it's it's very controversial and I think it would be radical and you limited chicken and pork and you focused on beef or ruminants in general which would be lamb, elk, bison, beef, cow etc. you would significantly reduce your linoleic acid very quickly.
because you you get into the grass-fed versus grain-fed beef part of it. And I explained to people that that difference is relatively small, right? It's your non-ruminant animal sources that you really want to be paying attention to.
because ultimately, right, if you're cutting out the vegetable and seed oils and the processed food, you're lowering your linoleic acid level a significant amount. Uh, you know, but you're right, you are still getting probably higher than ideal amounts of it uh in the um in the pork, in the chicken.