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SEED OILS AND YOUR MITOCHONDRIA

How eating seed oils break your most important cellular machinery...

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It may appear simplistic to blame seed oils for every modern chronic disease...

Obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer's Disease, Cancer, age-related macular degeneration all appear unrelated.

But if we discard the organ-specific disease paradigm and consider whats happening at the level of the cell, things start to make sense.

Linoleic acid, the chief omega-6 fatty contained in seed oils induces MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION in every cell of your body.

How?

Quite literally by weakening the cellular machinery with shoddy materials.

Its like building your engine pistons out of plastic.

Let me explain.

Mitochondria are ancient endo-symbiosed bacteria that live in our cells and make energy for us

Happy, working mitochondria = thriving healthy

Broken or disordered mitochondria = road to disease

One of the most important machines in your mitochondria is Cardiolipin - a lipid complex that plays an essential role in mitochondrial energy metabolism.

It sits in your inner mitochondrial membrane and helps makes the magic of electron transport happen.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiolip…

Cardiolipin has four fatty acid tails - kind of like a triglyceride but with one extra.

The fatty acid composition of this molecule influences its function, and in turn that of the mitochondria.

Today, people are eating evolutionarily inconsistent amounts of plant-derived linoleic acid from refined seed oils.

Excess linoleic acid in Cardiolipin causes it to oxidize, and break.

Oxidized Cardiolipin leads to
- defective electron transport
- mitochondrial dysfunction
- cellular damage and death

By regularly eating seed oils, instead of ancestrally appropriate saturated fats, you are forcing your body to make your cardiolipin with linoleic acid

The inevitable outcome is oxidized cardiolipin and mitochondrial dysfunction

If every cell in every organ has defective mitochondria, you're going to get sick. Which organ that disease manifests will depend on

- other mitochondrial insults e.g. blue light & nnEMF
- other dietary toxins like refine carbs and sugar
- individual genetic predispositions

All this we haven't even talked about the break-down products of linoleic acid, which are themselves toxic to your cells in a host of ways, some completely unrelated to mitochondria...

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

For a comprehensive overview of how seed oils cause disease through mitochondrial dysfunction, listen to @TuckerGoodrich and @CarnivoreMD lay it all out. Dense listening but extremely comprehensive.

They follow it up with another sterling performance

So the next time your doctor tells you to eat Canola oil for 'heart health' or Dan from @ussoy tells you that Soybean oil is good for you, ask them about how it affects your mitochondrial function...

Instead reach for the organic, pasture raised beef tallow, pork lard or clarified butter and then tell them to.... /END

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