Stearic acid has been shown in human studies to improve mitochondrial function and is associated with lower body mass, leanness, improved cardiovascular outcomes, and lower rates of diabetes and metabolic dysfunction.

“stearic acid 18 carbon saturated fat and even in human studies like this invivo study published in nature Communications you see improvements in mitochondrial function with steric acid so I think there's a good amount of evidence to suggest that this 18 carbon saturated fat steric acid is healthy for humans in epidemiologic studies it's consistently associated with lower body mass more leanness and improves cardiovascular outcomes lower rates of diabetes metabolic dysfunction”