[Disclaimer: I am not a health professional. I just share info from people I’ve grown to trust over the years1.]
Today’s email inbox included an article from Dr. Mercola which, upon reading, resulted in my usual reaction from reading one of his articles: 1. Turns out the commercial Medical Industrial Complex was lying to us about yet another thing (fat is bad)2 in order to get us on the pharmaceutical treadmill, and 2. Foods humans ate for millenia, whole and in their proper form, are actually good to for us.
This one talks about a component of full-fat dairy (from grass-fed cows) that aids our bodies in getting rid of excess linoleic acid, a highly inflammatory substance found in seed oils and thus processed foods. You can buy a crazy expensive supplement of C15:0 (pentadecanoic acid3), or…just eat full-fat yoghurt (fermented things are great for us), cottage cheese, whole (preferably raw) milk, etc. The best source at this time is a high C15 butterfat concentrate. You definitely need to cut out sources of LA from your diet. Read your labels. Prepare your own food.4
Key points:
One of the linoleic acid (LA) downsides is that, among the other types of oxidative damage it gives us, it increases the risk of sun-induced oxidative damage. In other words, if you’re super sun sensitive, you might be able to fix some of that by changing your diet.
There are metabolic and gastric benefits galore.
It takes a year or two to get LA out of your system, so, like many roads to health, it takes time. The sooner you cut LA out of your life, the better.
Here’s another article that cites a raft of studies supporting these conclusions. It’s not a doctoral thesis, so it won’t take you all day to read.
I’m very thankful for the people who buck the status quo and share helpful information like this with us non white coat types. They are literally doing the Lord’s work.
“Midwestern Doctor” being my current go-to.
See also: “Salt is bad”, “sunlight is bad”, “red meat is bad”, and my biggest pet peeve, “Let’s hybridize and chemical-saturate wheat to the point where foods that use to be staples now cause celiac etc.”.
Going to use this as a new vocal warm-up excercise.
Don’t be the idiot I ran across on Twix the other day who was pretty sure that home food preparation was more expensive than eating out. He was appropriately ratioed.