Paul Saladino· MD
Or Just eat things your predecessors ate and ingest an evolutionarily appropriate amount of linoleic acid.
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Or Just eat things your predecessors ate and ingest an evolutionarily appropriate amount of linoleic acid.
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Evolutionarily, we have never eaten such high amounts of linoleic acid, which has been clearly shown in research trials to be harmful for humans (PMID: 28503188, 8432867, 2008870 and many more).
we cannot ignore this evolutionary inconsistency in the amount of linoleic acid in our diets that is coming from these foods
evolutionarily we would never have gotten this much linoleic acid because we just we're not eating a lot of corn we're not eating a lot of nuts and seeds
in contrast to westernized Americans who get 10 to 15 or 20% of our calories from lolic Acid
man this linoleic acid molecule if we introduce evolutionarily inconsistent levels of that it can be problematic for us at a lot of levels and one of those is probably satiety
Worse even that would be cottonseed oil right the more linoleic acid probably the worst for humans from an evolutionary perspective you're just concentrating the stuff
there's a massive amount so evolutionarily inconsistent amounts of linolic acid that easily get concentrated in these oils so we suddenly have this huge influx of linolic acid into our diets