Guest guest Posted January 17, 2002 Report Share Posted January 17, 2002 Hi All, WHY does your body produce Mystric (c14:0) from glucose? Are the sat fat is bad fat crown suggesting mother nature got it so wrong? Mystric is the bodies starting point for the elongation and desaturation of fatty acids into other necessary forms. The only fatty acids it can't make are Omega 3 LNA and Omega 6 LA but your body only need 2 - 3 g of each. More is not necessarily better! Maybe if you set the LDL (actually VLDL) level, HDL level and LDL receptor numbers produced from Mystric as the reference level (as the body probably does) you will see that as chain length increases and or double bond numbers increases, the body progressively lowers LDL (actually VLDL) production, reduces LDL receptor (which remove LDL from circulation) numbers and raises HDL. Wonder why? Maybe the liver knows about the peroxidation issue (free radical attack of fatty acids) and as the possibility of peroxidation of the fatty acids carried in it's lipoprotein carriers (VLDL, IDL & LDL) increases, it lowers the total numbers of lipoprotein carriers in circulation by making less VLDL (which turns into IDL then LDL), raises LDL receptor numbers (to reduce circulation time and total numbers) and increases HDL (to transfer more anti-oxidant enzymes into the LDL) in an effort to reduce LDL oxidation, CVD occurrence and death. I would much rather have my limited anti-oxidant reserves guarding my cell membranes and DNA against free radical attack and undesired alteration rather that ridding shot gun inside LDL carriers, protecting plutonium like double bond fatty acids against free radical attack, resultant increased LDL oxidation and CVD progression. Feed the body un-natural high levels of mono and or poly double bond fatty acids, especially commercially processed RBD versions and the bodies peroxidation risk reduction system breaks down, LDL oxidation increases, CVD increases and death may follow. Expect in man's most recent past, never was the amount of monounsaturated or polyunsaturated fatty acids currently consumed naturally available. The Paleo body never had to deal with more than very small amounts of them, could not thus handle larger quantities and neither can the current one. Excess intake of RBD oils and fats, trans fats, hydrogenated fats and double bond rich mono / poly rich veggie oils have been shown to be highly involved in so many disease states. Maybe it's time for the penny to drop and a ground swell build against the onslaught and damage caused to our bodies by these commercial oil and fat producers. Think about it................... ======================== Good Health & Long Life, Greg , http://optimalhealth.cia.com.au gowatson@... USDA database (food breakdown) http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/ PubMed (research papers) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi DWIDP (nutrient analysis) http://www.walford.com/dwdemo/dw2b63demo.exe Patch file for above http://www.walford.com/download/dwidp67u.exe KIM (omega analysis) http://ods.od.nih.gov/eicosanoids/KIM_Install.exe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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