Re: Re: The Skinny on Fats FA oxidation/ synthesis

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It goes thru the cycle as needed to make energy, so storage may not be high of myristic any more than 12:0, 10:0 et al. The main thing I see is that it doesn't make any diff if I eat carbs or fats - we knew that, right? But a failure in a process like a hormone's control of the balance, can cause a problem. Insulin was the hormone described - there may be more, but I think this puts more "weight" on using CR to control weight.

It seems silly to me that any one fatty acid especially one we don't make, would be required to control the process, but linoleic and linolenic are the precursors to eicosanoids.

Need to dig into the hormones.

Regards.

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From: Rodney

Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 2:47 PM

Subject: [ ] Re: The Skinny on Fats FA oxidation/ synthesis

Hi JW:Great stuff! Is there a way to determine how much palmitic gets converted to myristic? And does it remain myristic, or get converted promptly to something else?Rodney.> Since our enlightenment by Tony and now you, I have delved into Lehninger's "Principles of biochemistry". ........................> > Pg 594, Palmitic and stearic serve as precursors of the two most common monosaturated fatty acids of animal tissues namely, palmitoleic acid (16 carbons) and oleic (18 carbons) acid....." .....................> pg 518, The first stage of oxidation yields Acetyl-CoA and ATP. Palmitic yields myristic. That can be further reduced in two carbon stages until all the energy is released (seven passes thru the fatty acid oxidation cycle. ....................