Peter Attia· MD
what happens is that with 16 1 in the high saturated fatty acid group it drops significantly where in the low fat group again low saturated fatty acid group it actually goes up and this is a statistically significant difference
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what happens is that with 16 1 in the high saturated fatty acid group it drops significantly where in the low fat group again low saturated fatty acid group it actually goes up and this is a statistically significant difference
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and i want to really quick draw attention here to one more that we are going to be talking more about and that's 16 1. that's palmitoleic acid and we're going to talk more about why that's important but as we can see here when we follow that across it significantly rises when we have less saturated fat and more carbohydrates and you can see that is statistically significantly different in every place that we're looking
I want to really quick draw attention here to one more that we are going to be talking more about and that's 16 that's palmitoleic acid and we're going to talk more about why that's important but as we can see here when we follow that across it significantly rises when we have less saturated fat and more carbohydrates and you can see that is statistically significantly different in every place that we're looking okay so moving on when we take here a low saturated fat diet low fat low saturated fat diet and we compare it to a low carbohydrate high saturated fat diet over 12 weeks this is from jeff volix group from 2008 and what i like here is you can see very readily with these pie charts exactly what the content of the two diets were so again we really have it flipped you know high carbohydrate low carbohydrate low fat here on the left to a very high intake of fat on the right and again below it the two different levels of saturated fat that we're comparing 12 grams to three times as high in the low carb diet at 36.