Dietary stearic acid regulates mitochondrial function in humans, with stearic acid deprivation leading to decreased mitochondrial activation and fragmentation.

“c18 ingestion rapidly and robustly causes mitochondrial fusion in people with 3 hours of ingestion it causes a drop in long-chain acyl carnitine that's carnitine that's moving into the mitochondria that is an indicator of beta oxidation that the mitochondria are burning fat”

“so we show here that ingestion of c18 stearic acid rapidly and robustly causes mitochondrial fusion in people after three hours causes a drop in circulating lawn train acyl carnitines suggesting increased fatty acid beta oxidation and vivo”

“in humans we can deprive them of stearic acid they put them on two days of a vegan diet hello fat vegan diet yes and their mitochondria change the mitochondria has stopped working the colloquially known banana milkshake study”

“dietary stearic acid regulates mitochondria in vivo in humans”

“stearic acid intake also causes a drop in circulating long chain acyl carnitines suggesting increased fatty acid beta oxidation in vivo”

“they had people eat a vegan diet for a few days they deprived them any seric acid and they gave them a shake with a large amount of stearic acid and saw changes and mitochondrial function or at least fusion and they saw uh changes in beta oxidation markers”