Re: Ray Peat in his own words/pufa/long w/ references

[Guest guest]

I certainly fully intend to continue including moderate amounts of EFA's in

my diet.

Peat's claim of EFA toxicity strikes me as having an incredibly low level of

plausibility. The burden of proof that he needs to shoulder on this issue

is enormous. Are we really to believe in the toxicity of fatty acids that

are found almost universally throughout nature and especially in many of the

foods that have been staples of homo sapiens since before we became homo

sapiens? Nuts, meats, green foods, seeds, insects, eggs are all foods that

stretch throughout the timeline of hominid existence right up to the present

day. How believable is it that multiple successive permutations of related

species would consume, absorb, and incorporate into their tissues a class of

toxic substances. It defies logic to such a degree that it undermines the

believability of his non-essentiality claim.

[Guest guest]

As I said, just the messenger.;-)

, I believe your very point on the availability of these fats is

his point that these fats are found in small amounts in certain foods

and the notion of supplementing them in fairly large amounts is a

serious problem. Someone yesterday, I belive it was (who

hopefully did some work today ) said that most people on this list

are unlikely to be using excess efa's and the debate is reasonably

unecessary as the debate is really as to supplement small amounts of

efa's or not to supplement at all. It would appear to be nearly hair

splitting. So I wouldn't sweat it.

DMM

> I certainly fully intend to continue including moderate amounts of

EFA's in

> my diet.

>

> Peat's claim of EFA toxicity strikes me as having an incredibly low

level of

> plausibility. The burden of proof that he needs to shoulder on

this issue

> is enormous. Are we really to believe in the toxicity of fatty

acids that

> are found almost universally throughout nature and especially in

many of the

> foods that have been staples of homo sapiens since before we became

homo

> sapiens? Nuts, meats, green foods, seeds, insects, eggs are all

foods that

> stretch throughout the timeline of hominid existence right up to

the present

> day. How believable is it that multiple successive permutations of

related

> species would consume, absorb, and incorporate into their tissues a

class of

> toxic substances. It defies logic to such a degree that it

undermines the

> believability of his non-essentiality claim.

>

>

[Guest guest]

--- In @y..., " drmichaelmarasco " <mmarasco@c...>

wrote:

> Someone yesterday, I belive it was (who

> hopefully did some work today )

*runs around the corner*

*walks back in whisling innocently*

huh? what? sorry. you were saying something? I've been too busy at

work to keep up.