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I Was Wrong About Seed Oils (Science is Settled)
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Introduction and Greetings
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Hey there, it's Christian Yordanoff. Thanks for tuning back in.
Preferred Dietary Fats
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Last Sunday, we did a free mini masterclass for our email subscribers, followed by some Q&A.
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And it was a good session, lot of good good questions. And one of the a couple of folks asked what kind of you know fats I like, animal fats, and in general,
00:00:27
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sources of fat that I prefer. So I said and mentioned beef tallow as one of them. If you can find it, if you can find a good, clean source you know from healthy animals that live in clean environments and you know the the companies doing doing this business are you know following good practices to
CSPI's Article on Fats
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produce clean food. right So anyway, that was good session.
00:00:53
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Thanks for everybody that came. it was fun. But soon after the the the session, one of the folks that was on there emailed me and he told me that he got an article from the CSPI, which I'd never heard of.
00:01:09
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And it's this thing on the screen here. This this is the article. titled, Is Beef Tallow Really Healthier Than Seed Oils? And he said that there's a study in there with that a meta-analysis of 30 studies that show that seed oils don't cause inflammation. Now, I had said that they're inflammatory and there's a lot of problems with them during our session.
00:01:33
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So he was like, how do you how do you reconcile the study? So I just... I just opened this article first, obviously, and I was like, I i just kind of scanned over it, and then near the end, you see here the take-home
Critique of CSPI's Intentions
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message.
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The take-home message is, beef tallow is having a moment, as in it's a fad or whatever, but it's no health food. Ignore the hype and stick with healthier plant-based oils like olive Canola, soybean, or avocado.
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So I was like, for a second or two, I was there like, I was horrified. I was horrified. And then I asked this subscriber that emailed me, like, why do you why are you even subscribed to this so this thing? I just looked at a few other articles. i was like, do you think this publication is there for, they're trying to get you healthier? you know So anyway, the the reason, and i'm not having a go with that person, the reason I'm actually creating this video is because this is actually a very important thing. Because what a lot of, still unfortunately, a lot of people out there,
00:02:47
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don't understand is that there's a lot of... if you If you look at... If you scroll down here, it supports CSPI. So this what is it? Center for for Science in the Public Interest.
00:02:59
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Okay, so look. It's a non-profit organization that takes no donations from industry or government. CSPI relies on support of donors to continue our work.
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right So these ostensibly non-profit organizations, if you actually...
Funding and Conflicts of Interest
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And there's many researchers out there that have dug into a lot of these, like, bigger, also much bigger ones.
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You will see that they have a lot of roots into companies that sell various chemicals for a profit that don't actually solve people's problems. They they actually make things worse, if you know what I mean, right?
00:03:39
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So they're kind of, they're parading around as this, not, you know, grassroot, nonprofit organization. And if you go to the About section, I'll go here for anyone watching the video.
00:03:52
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If you look at... Let me just move my face out of the way. So if you look at the people in the organization... Come on, why is this not working?
00:04:04
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Come on, people. Okay, look at these people here. like They look like just really normal folks. These are the staff. Just like, you know, people just following orders, just following orders, you know.
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But then I actually did not see that there's a board section. So, they have an epidemiologist, MD, So I honestly, like, I didn't actually see this the the first time around.
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They have a guy that was a mayor of Philadelphia twice, another MD, public health physician, health policy expert, senior policy officer, Robert Wood, whatever.
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So actually, now that... Now that I saw these people, i would love to just kind of like look into them a little bit and see see kind of what what's what's their background. But if you look at the staff, which is what the first thing that appears here, they're just like regular folks just doing their job, trying to make a living, and just trying to make the world a better place.
00:05:10
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You know, ostensibly, that's what that's what the whole website is all about. And I can see why a lot of people who have a lot more trust in some of these organizations than than many of us do, I can see why they look, you can click up there, get email updates. So, but if you look at, if you look at, I'll go back to this article here.
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the The study... So look, is beef tallow better for you
Debate on Seed Oils vs Animal Fats
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than seed oils? No. like This is what the article says here. Now, if you're not watching the screen, I'm going to just read read for you.
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So... Is beef tallow better for you than seed oils is the is the subheading. No. Seed oils like soybean, canola, sunflower, safflower and grapeseed have gotten an undeserved bad reputation with detractors asserting that they cause inflammation and that their processing introduces toxic chemicals while stripping them of nutrients.
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That's an exaggeration. For starters, seed oils don't cause inflammation. This is an assertion here. For starters, seed oils don't cause inflammation. I should also tell you that the person that wrote this article, will name names, is a PhD, right?
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Now, PhD generally stands for very likely extremely indoctrinated and brainwashed for like eight years, nine years, right?
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So they're very good at just parroting information that they were taught in the textbooks. It's a very authoritarian type thing. So you if you don't tow the party line, you don't get your PhD. So you have to really, for the most part, for more especially more in this like more health research, medical, so like you are really just And I don't mean to to be demeaning here, but you're a little bit like just a tool in the the the bigger machine trying to you know extract profits by making people sick and not actually helping them.
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So you're kind of like a useful idiot in this entire... And a lot of a lot of people have woken up, a lot of doctors have woken up, so you know God bless them, I'm really happy. about that people are waking up the problem is that these so-called you know donor sponsored grassroots movement they seem to be like pretty well funded if they have such a huge influence if you know what i mean so it seems like behind the curtains there may be funds coming from somewhere else because check this out like just i'm sorry to just really harp on this but if you look at the amount of people that are have they have on staff it's like four
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It's like, let's see, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. 18 4, that's almost 80 people. How do have, like, you're just taking donations, how are going have...
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ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen eighteen rows four that's almost eighty people how do you have like if you're just taking donations how are you going to have so much money to to have 80 people on staff that's that's just on the website.
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And then you know you have your pay your board and your offices. like just That's like huge. This is a corporation freaking level. And they have like these roles as well. They have a director of diversity, equity, and inclusion, policy associate,
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just for federal child nutrition programs. I mean, senior policy associate, director of litigation, like they have so much cash that they have these like roles that are not mega essential to the running of an organization, you know, so they have a lot of money to throw around.
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So I would not like... I know these folks like look like look like normal people and I'm sure that they're theyre they're just, again, trying to make a living, trying to make the world a better place. I think they're doing that in in a center like this.
00:09:14
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But they're clearly well-funded. So let's go back here. Is beef tallow better for you than seed oils? No. Seed oils got a bad rap.
00:09:25
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But they don't cause inflammation. And look, this is the study that that was brought to my attention. I had not seen this one. So look at this.
Meta-analysis Evaluation
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In an analysis of 30 randomized trials, researchers found that eating more linoleic acid, one of the primary fatty acids in seed oils like soybean, corn, and grapeseed, was not linked to higher levels of inflammation.
00:09:46
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Okay, right? And look at this. While the refining process does does remove many nutrients along with compounds that cause splattering rancidity and off-colors and odors, all oils contain the antioxidant but vitamin E. If they didn't, they'd go rancid in the bottle after just a few days.
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Right? So...
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So if the if the seed oils didn't contain vitamin E, they'd go rancid in the bottle after just a few days. that's That's already like... Okay, that that sounds like...
00:10:27
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you're making yourself very vulnerable to this rancidity if your vitamin E levels drop for whatever reason. Let's say you have more oxidative stress than the normal and it's it's used up and depleted.
00:10:40
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you know So let's <unk>s just, before we look at that paper, we're going to kind of look at it briefly, but look at, there's another article from the same author. It's called Seed Oils, Are They Healthy or Harmful? And if you just, I'm going to like, so what are seed oils, what kind of fats are in oil? So they give you like a breakdown. And then look, this is actually a pretty cool graphic.
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It's nicely animated as well. Where it says like, look, the the sort of the blue, i don't know what this color is. I guess it's blue, gray, whatever.
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This shows you the amount of polyunsaturated fat. So red, and i love how they make red, know, danger color. Saturated fat is red.
00:11:25
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Monounsaturated fat is yellow. And then polyunsaturated fat is whatever, blue color. So if you look at coconut oil, palm kernel oil, butter...
00:11:37
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cocoa butter beef tallow these are like the lowest in polyunsaturated fats and most people listening to me right now know that you don't want to eat too many polyunsaturated fats now this is this is what I like hate and and it's it's horrifying about these organizations is because they are literally telling you the opposite of And that is nefarious and that is clearly ill-intentioned, but they're using their staff, which are just normal folks that think they're doing good. They may have been a little bit indoctrinated by their their schooling.
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They're using them as a front for that. So then look, what are the highest polyunsaturated fat oils? Look at this. Flaxseed oil is 73%.
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Grapeseed oil, 73% highest. Canola, almost 30%, 29%. Walnut oil, 66%. Sunflower oil, apparently it's only 4%.
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But this has to be wrong. This must be... Look, there's an asterisk. asteris Sunflower seeds are higher in PUFAs and lower in monounsaturated fats than most sunflower oils.
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Some health food stores sell high-poly sunflower. or some sunflower so I know there's this high oleic sunflower oil now where it's more monounsaturated fats. So maybe that's kind of what they're using here. But definitely sunflower oil has more than 4%. This is...
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A little bit you know not not not correct. Soybean oil, 60%. Corn oil, 57%. Sesame oil, 43%. Okay, so let's see. This is just a little bit of background for anyone that doesn't know you know in the article. Great.
00:13:23
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Now, next is the next section is seed oils and health. Are seed oils bad for you? sub Subheading. In a word, no. This is it. This blatant. this this is blatant ill-intentioned misinformation you know by this ostensibly out out there for your organization.
00:13:48
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They're saying in a word, no, seed oils are not bad for you. okay And then they start talking about studies where they ask people what they eat and follow them for decades. Those who report eating more unsaturated plant-based fats have better health outcomes than those who say they eat more saturated animal-based fats like butter. So like this is just probably one of the lowest levels of evidence, epidemiology, where you you ask people to self-report and and recall what they've eaten.
00:14:17
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right Trash. Trash research. For example, okay, no i I'm not going to go into all of this.
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Then... is it better to replace saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats or with monounsaturated fats? And then they say, while both mono and poly are good, some person called Liechtenstein points out there seems to be more of a benefit of polys than monos for lowering the risk of heart disease.
00:14:47
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her her bottom line is I think we're splitting hairs. It's like arguing whether blueberries are better than blackberries when you just want people to eat more fruit. So they they want you to eat more of these.
00:14:58
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And you know who else wants you to eat more of these? The World Harm Organization, WHO. You may have heard of them. You may have seen their work in recent years pushing for various other healthy quote-unquote interventions.
00:15:16
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Also, who else wants you to eat more omega-6 polyunsaturated fats? Harvard help press Health Press. i should say People might not get these jokes. Harvard Health Press.
00:15:27
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the Them and the WHO, they say you need to eat five should eat to of your diet from omega six s game Now, maybe you think those those organizations are there for your own good. but you know If you do, maybe you should just like click off this episode and go you know put on some Disney fairy tales. I don't know what you're into. Snow White.
00:15:57
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the beauty and the beast. like that because that's Because we're in fairytale land. if if you know Anyway, that's that's not my that's not my kind of job to convince folks that don't they don't see through all of these organizations, especially based on past events, especially based on all the cholesterol lies, and then these omega-6s being pushed in...
00:16:25
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Instead of the animal fats as more healthful for us, but if you any anyone that tells you like there's a lot of research that shows that people that eat more unsaturated plant-based fats have better health outcomes than those who say they eat more saturated animal-based fats just Look at disease rates over the last hundred years and you you will actually see that cancer all-time highs.
00:16:57
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Heart disease all-time highs. Alzheimer's disease rapidly increasing. Diabetes, obesity, all of these are rapidly increasing. So in the 1800s, and even like the first part of last century, whilst there was
Historical Health Trends and Seed Oils
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a lot of increase in the consumption of these oils,
00:17:21
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that it wasn't as vast as today because you know you know they used to use tallow in McDonald's, beef tallow. So there was a like a lot of homes, a lot of like smaller like families that might have a cow or whatever. They would have more of their own like fats that they would make, animal fats, butter, lard from pigs that didn't just eat corn and soy, soybeans.
00:17:41
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So if you actually look at, if you want large-scale experiment, look at what... at like at least in the USA, what the population is dealing with right now. and like one Two in three people have so have some health problem. like A third of Americans are you know overweight, obese, and or diabetic or pre-diabetic.
00:18:04
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you know Half a million plus die every year of heart disease and cancer. and cancer so
00:18:16
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This is whilst our you know Americans' consumption of all these oils, soybean, especially corn oil, safflower, it has been increasing over the last, I guess, 125 years or if they're healthy...
00:18:37
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so if they are so healthy Why are people sicker than ever? Why? And if you look at... There was another paper. Some of the research is going to be in my book if you want to go deeper into it. But there was, for example, one paper here in the Prostaglandus, Lucotriens, Essential Fatty Acids Journal, a high linoleic... Wait, wait, sorry. Wrong paper here. So paper says increase...
00:19:03
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wrong wrong paper here so this paper says increase in adipose tissue linoleic acid of U.S. adults in the last half century. So what they state in this paper from 2015 is that in the last half century, the major omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid, linoleic acid, has increased in the fatty tissue of Americans 136%.
00:19:30
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thirty six percent And that this increase is highly correlated with an increase in dietary linoleic acid intake over the same period.
00:19:41
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Okay? So if these are so good for you and they're so healthy and they're actually better than saturated fats and folks have been consuming them more and their levels in their body have increased by 136% over the last 50 years.
00:20:01
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Why, oh why, Mr. PhD scientists and you know the smartest people in the world with the most funding and the pinnacle of health and medicine and science, why no have no diseases being cured?
00:20:16
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Why are there new diseases basically being classified all the time? We have thousands, if not tens of thousands now. And why are Americans and people around the world the sickest they've ever been?
00:20:27
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And why are a lot of these diseases actually afflicting younger and younger people? Like you have younger people with without Alzheimer's, younger people with cancer,
00:20:42
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And then we have like, you know, I have some of my clients that that that tell me like they're, they're in in some cases their parents are still alive.
00:20:51
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We're talking about 60, 70-year-old people and their parents are like they're in their late 80s, early 90s. I have clients that, I have one client, he I think both of his granddads worked freaking homes.
00:21:04
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worked in freakin coal, coal mines and they lived to like 93, 4, 5. three four five Both of the granddads freaking worked in coal mines and they lived into their mid-90s and they they just ate whatever they, you know, God knows, like whatever they could like grow and raise and and and process themselves.
00:21:29
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They weren't eating like all these oils. which are supposedly better than animal fats, right? How is that possible? Am I taking crazy pills here? Jeez, Louise.
00:21:44
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Anyways, seed oils. So do I need to improve my ratio of omega-6 to omega-3? This is such a red herring. I have clients come to me. They're like, oh, what about the omega-6 and 3 and my omega-6 to 3 is this and that. like I think this is such a red herring. I don't think it matters.
00:22:00
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I think you just have to remove as much of this garbage from your life. That is really So... so let's Let's look at the... I want to look at this paper. but just be Sorry. well One quick glance at some of the other articles on this this website, CSPI.
00:22:24
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So look, CSPI joins public citizen in call for RFK Jr.'s termination. okay And they have him here painted in red as as as he is he's a spawn of Satan, a minion of Satan. right so They're trying to get this guy out.
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00:23:00
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oh I can't make this stuff up, man. and Okay, so they're trying to get... And RFK, he's the one in this other article, he's the one that has this make frying oil tallow again.
00:23:17
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Said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And and just like that, steak and shake switched from frying in seed oils to frying in beef tallow.
00:23:27
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Influencers sing beef tallow praises, but why? The answer may have to do more with Bucking Convention because it's certainly not due to any known health benefits. These people don't want to help you be healthier.
00:23:45
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They want the exact opposite. And again, I'm not saying it's the people writing the articles. they're I'm not even saying it's the board members necessarily.
00:23:58
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They are just following the orders. Following the orders. Okay? If you know what I mean. Look at this picture here. Nutrition action. Our best shot and a picture of dr Fauci.
00:24:15
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Okay. And look next to it, the plant lover's plate. Oh, I'm sure the plant-based diet... On the magazine cover next to Fauci with our best shot as the headline. I'm sure then the plant lovers played... Plant-based diet must be good for you.
00:24:34
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Right? Guys? Guys? Hot cereals, look at this, hot cereals, the tastiest, healthiest, oatmeal and more. I'm sure that oatmeal must be very good for me. And look at this, low sugar drinks, 10 of the healthiest options. I'm sure sugar must be bad for me.
00:24:55
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00:25:12
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to buy this book Wow. And look at this magazine cover. Safe and easy ways to lower your blood pressure. And there's a beet. Is that a beet or a red onion?
00:25:23
Speaker
Looks like a beet. I have to eat beets and raise my nitric oxide to lower my blood pressure. That's healthy. And then there's a child putting some processed, probably grains and some cereals in his little a shopping cart at the store. Therefore, I must buy my kid's Cheez-Its or whatever the flip, because that's healthy and nutritious. and Or if not, I'll just get some healthy, tasty oatmeal for my kid. Look, Quaker Oats.
00:25:58
Speaker
Oh, wow. They must be so good for you. Should I get steel cut, quick steel cut, rolled or old-fashioned, or quick or instant?
00:26:10
Speaker
Or maybe I'll go gluten-free, but I'm sure gluten-free is just another scam. You know, people just, like all of these hypochondriac maniacs, they just want attention, right?
00:26:22
Speaker
Okay, so no, never mind that. I'm getting the gluten-free, not non-gluten-free. And then I'm going to get chia seeds, must be good. Hemp seeds, great. What else do I add to my oats?
00:26:35
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oh these are Oh, thank God, these are these are with less sugar. That's dodged the bullet there. And what else? Okay, some whole grains with fruits and nuts and granola, protein oats.
00:26:50
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I think that's breakfast sorted for the next year, guys. No worries. No worries. Got my Quaker Oats, my Steel Cut, my Instant if I'm in a pinch. And just make sure the chia seeds and the hemp seeds are ready.
00:27:07
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Blast those in. Lots of Omega 3, 6 and 9. Plenty of fiber. Happy days. Thank you, Center for... the science in the public interest.
00:27:22
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I'm sorry, i should be getting I should be getting to the actual study here, that that the paper. let Let's just look at these unsweetened flavored sparkling water. Okay, sparkling water with a splash of real juice.
00:27:33
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actually like this Pellegrino. I get it organic. They have actually really nice Sun Pellegrino in glass bottles. Okay, I changed my mind. These guys are okay.
00:27:45
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These are okay. the They had a picture of of something I've bought before, therefore they're okay now in my book. Never mind everything I said. Please disregard the last 28 minutes. All right, let's look at the recipes very quickly.
00:27:58
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Red cabbage wedges with honey mustard sauce. Sesame green beans. Broccoli with Caesar sauce, which I'm sure will be with mayonnaise made from soybean oil. Simple butternut soup.
00:28:10
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Ugh. Okay, think wow, there was actually chicken. There's picnic chicken here. Wow, there's actually... Oh, but it's with cornstarch because, you know, that's... Why not? Roasted red pepper gazpacho.
00:28:21
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I'm just surprised there's some some meat at all because, you know, plant-based is the way to go. Don't you know? Tofu and snow peas. Oh, black bean sauce. I'm telling the wife, get some tofu.
00:28:33
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Basically, I'm going to tell my wife to buy all of these ingredients because I don't have any one single of these damn things. Oh, except the the garlic. Okay, I have the garlic. I don't have the peanut oil. Definitely going to have to get like a decent batch of that, bunch of cornstarch, bunch of high-protein or extra firm tofu, the black bean garlic sauce.
00:28:53
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And a tablespoon of dry sherry because, like, I would have to be very drunk to actually enjoy tofu in in in a meal with peanut friggin' oil in it with all the polyunsaturated fats.
00:29:08
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But that's that's fine that's because that's why the sherry is in there, right?
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00:29:47
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Okay, I think that is enough ranting. I was not going to rant. See the processing. All right. All let's go. but so let's look look at Oh, by the way, the stuff they said about supplements is us is's horrific. like Honestly, like I know a lot of a lot of people, like a lot of my clients, they look at the website like this. They know this is just like some but sock puppet sort of front for God knows. It could be... it could be industry, it could be pharma, god God even knows. But you like the the whats what's horrifying to me is that a lot of people still can't can't really see that. you know
00:30:29
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Jabberroony myths and misinformation. Okay, so thank thank you for deb debunking debunking these myths, guys.
00:31:03
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00:31:15
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00:31:27
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So make sure you get that. So really, thank you guys for helping us be healthy. Now let's look at this meta-analysis of 30 studies, right?
00:31:39
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Dietary linoleic acid intake and blood inflammatory markers, a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. So what they... did is They had 30 randomized controlled studies involving 1377 subjects that were included in the meta-analysis.
00:31:56
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They looked at various inflammatory markers in the blood including cytokines, acute phase reactants and adhesion molecules in adults. And then their conclusion was that our meta-analysis suggested that increasing dietary linoleic acid intake does not have a significant effect on the blood concentrations of inflammatory markers.
Limitations of Dietary Studies
00:32:15
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okay now the when uh our subscriber brought this to my attention i just popped open the the paper for and i just kind of like started scrolling to see that there's like a table of the paper so it was here sideways and i just looked at it's sideways on the screen but don't worry i'll show it and a little bit later in in a better format but here you can see duration so I just started looking here at the paper so six weeks duration 12 weeks duration 12 so six weeks is a month and a half 12 weeks is three months eight weeks okay there's one six months six weeks six weeks four months three months seven weeks four weeks six weeks 60 days okay so you're telling me
00:33:06
Speaker
that
00:33:09
Speaker
this article that they cite that these they cite this research as definitive that seed oils do not increase inflammation yet the longest study here is six months and most of them would be like the six to twelve week range that's like a month and a half to three months now remember that paper here dietary Wait, I think I closed it.
00:33:42
Speaker
Yeah, the the paper earlier where the the researchers had seen that the linoleic acid had increased by 136% in Americans' tissue, fatty tissue in the last
00:34:00
Speaker
50 years. right And that's that's, of course, the last 50 years, but we've been eating these things for, especially in the States, folks have been eating these for like 125 years.
00:34:12
Speaker
So that increase is larger over the course of a century and a quarter. but So what these but these studies here prove is very little.
00:34:26
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Very little because in you have, again, you have at a country level heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, that are obesity, diet you know all of that stuff.
00:34:41
Speaker
that are at absolutely skyrocketing unprecedented levels and the biggest variable here is the amount of seed oils people consume and just in general the amount of polyunsaturated fats not necessarily from seed oils because you know we also have access to nuts and seeds every day some people eat them every single day like a lot of plant-based people They think that they're replacing animal proteins with nuts and seeds or beans and whatever. and They think they're actually getting bioavailable protein that is appropriate for the metabolism of a warm-blooded mammal where it's actually not.
00:35:18
Speaker
So a lot of people are getting... If you eat an ounce... or rather I should say if you eat like three, threef four ounces of k nuts a day, you could be getting, depending on the nut, easily 20, 30 grams, maybe even more in some cases of polyunsaturated fats.
00:35:34
Speaker
And that's a hell of a lot for a warm-blooded mammal where these things, when they're incorporated into your body, are going to be very susceptible to damage, even if you have plenty of vitamin E in the body because UV light damages them, oxygen, which we use to make energy,
00:35:51
Speaker
damages them. And then, of course, heat, which we are warm, very warm mammals. We're not a seed that is supposed to survive the cold of the winter and then have still have energy to sprout in through you know the cold spring ground.
00:36:16
Speaker
In that context, these polyunsaturated fats that help organisms survive warm temperatures and function in warm temperatures, that's appropriate there. But we are like, i don't know, like...
00:36:33
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15 times warmer than the cold spring ground. We're like five, six times warmer than, you know, organisms that live in cold cold temperatures. so Like, for example, like a fish.
00:36:50
Speaker
living in the depths of the ocean, there's no UV light, there's no heat like we produce in our body. So having a lot of polyunsaturated fats like omega-3s, it's appropriate there but it's not appropriate to then put them in this hot machine that we are where they're going to get peroxidized just by virtue of being heated constantly. right So 6 to 12 weeks proves nothing.
00:37:16
Speaker
when if you look at, just look at the disease stats, what rough shape North Americans are, but like, you know, Europeans, the rest of the world, they're not much better because these are cheap and profitable oils So there's a lot of money being made in in the in the last 100 years plus, so there's a lot of cash that can be used to sway public opinion yeah and just make sure that they ensure the the continued sale and profitability of these. And they're so in they're so integrated in the food industry as well now that
00:37:56
Speaker
it's it's a behemoth that they're... Like, I'm not saying all of these researchers here necessarily were told to do this, but it's just a few if you have garbage data in in this meta-analysis, yeah, you're going to get the result, the garbage result that you're going to get.
00:38:14
Speaker
Because, again, you are if you're looking for six weeks, you could do a lot of harmful things for six weeks that could show positive effect in some other way. For example, just as an example, let's say you take someone that can't sleep or something like that or or is stressed and you start having them drink a bottle of wine every night and after six weeks you measure, oh look they're sleeping better maybe, they're sleeping longer, self-reported less stress, maybe their cortisol level is lower.
00:38:46
Speaker
you like Nobody is saying that they weren't drinking poison throughout those six weeks and if they continue doing that for the rest of their life, they won't get some kind of ill effect on their health.
00:38:59
Speaker
It's similar with these things. Over six weeks... We know, and here's a study that shows it as an example, we know that these oils are immunosuppressive. Look at this paper here, clinical trial from the journal Transplantation 1977, immunosuppression with polyunsaturated fatty acids in renal transplantation, kidney transplantation. so They basically, 44 of the 89 patients took the proof of preparation and 45 placebo, which was oleic acid, right? So, you know, like from olive oil.
00:39:41
Speaker
And functional graft survival was significantly better in the polyunsaturated fatty acid group than in those taking the placebo during the first three to four months post-transplant.
00:39:55
Speaker
So we know, so at six what's interesting, at six months, however, although the difference between the groups persisted, it was no longer statistically significant, complications were equally distributed between the groups. So what they did was they gave kidney transplantees, people that received kidneys, they gave them the PUFAs to suppress the immune system to ensure or to kind of increase the chances that the the body would not reject the transplanted organs. So we know that these are immunosuppressive oils.
00:40:32
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So look, during the first three, four months, they did better in terms of like immunosuppression, in terms of not rejecting the organs. so But at six months, the The difference persisted, but it was no longer significantly statistically significant.
00:40:46
Speaker
So the if you just do a 6 to 12-week trial, which is 1.5 to 3 months, and you're suppressing the immune system with the intake of these oils, you you actually could see reduction in inflammation depending on the markers you look at.
00:41:02
Speaker
But that's not the full picture. And when we look at this this paper, let's just look at some of the... some of the the ways they were measuring inflammation. so So some of the studies had cytokines that were being measured, TNF-alpha, interleukin-6, MCP-1, adiponectin.
00:41:22
Speaker
Then they also had acute phase reactants, C-reactive protein, fibrinogen, plasminogen, activator inhibitor 1, PA1.
00:41:34
Speaker
These are liver-derived proteins that rise during systemic inflammation. Adhesion molecules, S-alchem, S-v-chem, S-e-selectin, S-p-selectin.
00:41:46
Speaker
so
00:41:49
Speaker
the the thing to understand here is, yes, these are, you know these are, markers of inflammation, but you can have damage in the body, you can have detrimental effect even while some of these markers are not elevated. like you can There's other ways that we can measure not just inflammation but oxidative stress.
00:42:11
Speaker
So again, these studies, by virtue of the fact of them being so short, probably isn't enough time to show the long-term inflammatory processes going on. So let's just look at, for example, let's just look at the the the trial lengths.
00:42:30
Speaker
So 12 of the 30 studies were four to six weeks, okay?
00:42:37
Speaker
which is too short for significant tissue remodeling or chronic inflammatory processes to emerge. right So cytokines fluctuate day to day. Then you have 10 studies were 8 to 12 weeks.
00:42:49
Speaker
So basically 22 of the 30 studies were under 12 weeks.
00:42:58
Speaker
Three months. Three freaking months. People are eating this stuff all their life for 40, 50, 60, 70 years. years And then there were six studies that were three to six months.
00:43:15
Speaker
And then there was some... Some of the studies were with like healthy people. Others were with like the the the you know folks with obesity, metabolic syndrome, dyslipidemia, stuff like that.
00:43:26
Speaker
But still, three to six months is still short for atheroic atherosclerotic or systemic inflammatory progression. So atherosclerosis... Or, you know, damage to the arteries that can lead to then scar scarification, calcification, things like that, you know, clots.
00:43:45
Speaker
This stuff is going on for for decades and decades before, you know, some some sort of symptom emerges or before, you know, you're you're let's say you're 60, you go for a coronary artery calcification score scan and then they find out that you have some kind of calcification in one of the coronary arteries. So it's not like this stuff just happens in three to six months and, oh if if the seed oils don't cause any inflammatory, significant inflammatory changes, therefore they're completely healthy.
00:44:21
Speaker
like And here's the other problem. Here's the other problem. A lot of the research into these drugs out there is super short as well. Okay, so people, but people are taking these, some of these things like for decades, like my grandma was on some of these things for freaking decades since her 50s, early to mid 50s. That's when I started putting them on the statins and all this garbage, you know.
00:44:47
Speaker
So, like, and the the the safety trials and all this this research, it's like weeks, months, maybe for some of some of them it could be like 12 months, but if you look into it, it's horrific, and then people are taking these things for years and years. Like, the the SSRI trials, I don't even know, like, if there's trials beyond the three months all that much, you know?
00:45:13
Speaker
And people are, like, on them for freaking years. without any actual lab work that corroborates that they have low serotonin at all. Just complete, completely, know, you have depression or whatever, you don't you don't like your job, you don't like your life at the moment, what's going on, you must be depressed, you must need more serotonin. know the The complete quackery and freaking butchery going on out there.
00:45:38
Speaker
So why short trials obscure inflammation
Lipid Peroxidation and Health
00:45:41
Speaker
effects? So linoleic acid gets incorporated into our tissues, but this takes time, right? This takes time.
00:45:51
Speaker
so you you know, you will not you will not saturate the tissues with taking a little bit of soybean oil for 6 weeks or 12 weeks, right?
00:46:05
Speaker
other So other ways we can measure inflammation or or oxidative stress include things like lipid peroxidation. There's markers for that. So F2 isoprostanes, malondialdehyde, 4-HNE, there's T-bars.
00:46:21
Speaker
So... this could be going on even though you are your other inflammatory markers that they were measuring were you know not statistically significant. So you could have more lipid peroxidation.
00:46:40
Speaker
there's There's various PUFA breakdown products like 9-HOD, 13-HOD. thirteen h o d There's various like 4-HNE, 4-hydroxynone all. So there is This could be going on even though your CRP or interleukin-6, even though these are within range or low or or whatever, right?
00:47:00
Speaker
So you also have things like oxidized LDL, right? That's another thing. Cosinoids, right? So here's the that that's the really the main sort of thing I would say is if you're looking if you're looking at inflammatory markers, but you're not looking at like prostaglandins, thromboxanes, there's another one called 15-HETE.
00:47:22
Speaker
These are what linoleic acid, which gets turned into arachidonic acid in the body, these are what then get made into these inflammatory molecules.
00:47:34
Speaker
but So if we're looking at are seed oils inflaming us, we should actually be looking at the byproducts of the linoleic acid that can then become arachidonic acid and then which can be turned into prostaglandins, leukotrienes, various eicosanoids, right?
00:47:51
Speaker
So none of these studies looked at this, which are like the derivatives downstream of the linoleic acid increase from the but oil consumption.
00:48:04
Speaker
Then there's oxidative stress and enzymes. So there's a lot of different ways you could even measure, that your body could be that you could your body could be suffering or in a detrimental state from these oils.
00:48:18
Speaker
But if you just look at specific markers, it's easy to like just only get one or two or few pieces of the puzzle where the whole picture... It's like it's like you know you're looking at one corner of your house tunnel vision, and then behind you, your freaking couch is on fire or something, or like a cannonball has blasted through your wall. So that's kind of the problem with looking at disparate markers. And keep in mind, they were looking at several, like eight or so different inflammatory markers across all of the 30 studies.
00:48:52
Speaker
So some of these studies, would not none of them would do all of the markers. They would do like maybe HSCRP, interleukin-6, maybe two, three, four markers, right so then they're building this picture with the meta-analysis that all of these markers were fine and dandy but not all of the studies actually looked at all of the markers right so you're in these papers it's expensive to to like measure everything obviously it's very expensive so you have to like go for what's the most interesting for our study right now the problem is if you do that
00:49:25
Speaker
it doesn't actually give you the full picture. It's actually very easy to then skew the opinion of policymakers, doctors, practitioners, researchers that these things are good, these things are bad, these things are not inflammatory.
00:49:37
Speaker
But if, for example, if you do, like this is why i i love to do the metabolomic urine test that we do with our clients is because with a simple urine collection, you're getting over 100 markers. we We get markers for how well you're detoxifying deficiencies of vitamins, minerals, toxic metals.
00:49:59
Speaker
We actually see oxidative stress markers like lipid peroxidation. you know and This is what happens when these PUFAs break down. This is how you can measure is that going on in the body.
00:50:11
Speaker
And I see it with a lot of clients in the yellow, kind of in danger territory. And I've seen it in the red as well. And there's another marker for DNA damage. So there's a lot of other... Ways we can, like honestly, I don't think, for example, cr p h ss CRP, HSCRP, I don't think that's a very useful marker because if you do that marker and it's high, it means, yes, there's inflammation going on in your body, but it doesn't give us a lot any clues of what's going on. So what do we, like we still need to to investigate further.
00:50:40
Speaker
with more lab testing or with more functional assessment, more health history. there It's not a very helpful marker in of itself. Or interle even interleukin-6, for example. I mean, I don't run that marker or anything, but...
00:50:56
Speaker
it would be interesting to see it in people, but if it's elevated, what's causing the inflammation? you know Is it infection? Is it Pufus? God knows what's causing it. So at least when we get like 100 plus, 120 markers, we can see if there's a lot of toxic metals in the urine or if glutathione status is low and and nutrient elements are low, then Well, we start to to piece together our picture. if you and If you have oxidative stress and you're not detoxifying things well and and your minerals are low, well, it's probably like we need to support those systems, upregulate detoxification and maybe less lipid peroxidation and oxidative stress will occur because the body is more able to deal with toxins and repair damage with more minerals and... and
00:51:42
Speaker
So there's a lot of like more nuanced ways we can look at this. But the fact is that looking at two, three markers in a paper for six weeks is not definitive. The problem is that these folks, they take this research, which i I don't know if those people are well-intentioned or ill-intentioned.
00:51:59
Speaker
They might just be like neutral. This was a Chinese meta-analysis. They didn't declare any conflicts of interest. But the the fact is, if you have a bunch of like poor quality papers, like that that's six weeks, eight weeks, 12 weeks, and then you cobble them together into a meta-analysis, it looks very impressive because that's 30 studies.
00:52:23
Speaker
And the meta-analysis of that showed like it's all good, guys. But when you kind of look into the nuance, you see they're just using that paper, throwing it at people that are not going to bother to go into it and and actually dismantle it a little bit and figure out is is there any like validity to this. And honestly, the reason I'm creating this video is because i was like, well, I'm happy to freaking dig into this because what if I'm wrong? And then I look at like an absolute schmuck out there.
00:52:52
Speaker
And like somebody just says, look at this paper, look at the the quality of research here. They did this study for five years. They did this study for seven, 10, 12 years. And in none of those cases, people had increased inflammation.
00:53:03
Speaker
You know, if i that happened... I want to know first so like I can at least be a little bit less vocal about this stuff. But as soon as I looked into it, I was like, this is they are just that CSPI, whatever.
00:53:21
Speaker
They're just using that as an impressive looking 30-study meta-analysis to throw at people that just don't have the time, energy, or or desire, or or background knowledge to look in.
00:53:33
Speaker
to see through the bullshit, really. So that's kind of that. and Let's see what else I wanted to cover here. so yeah So your CRP, your interleukin-6, they may be low, they may be stable.
00:53:45
Speaker
If you have a lot of linoleic acid in the body, that will contribute to oxidative stress because just, again, by virtue of being warm,
00:53:56
Speaker
blooded mammals that go out into the world and are hit by UV light and we use oxygen to produce energy. All three of those things, UV light, oxygen, heat, will just degrade and damage these polyunsaturated fats in our body. That's the problem. it's It's a problem, yes, it's it's it's actually a problem that...
Cooking Processes and Oil Health Implications
00:54:23
Speaker
it these oils are heated right when they're when they're cooking our stuff with them. So for for example, the effect of intermittent and continuous heating of soybean oil at frying temperatures, this paper here, and the formation of 4-hydroxy-non-enol and other hydroxyaldehydes. So basically, they were heating soybean oil for one hour each day for five sequential days or for five hours con continuously at 185 degrees Celsius
00:54:55
Speaker
and basically
00:54:58
Speaker
These HNE and either hydroxy aldehydes, which are very carcinogenic, toxic to our cells, to our body, they just keep your accumulating, right? There was another paper. It's in the book, in my How to Actually Live Longer book, Volume 1.
00:55:13
Speaker
didn I didn't put it here, but they they do see also that those are absorbed in the food. The point here is that... Yeah, maybe your CRP and interleukin-6 are going to be fine, but if you're consuming these you know McDonald's, not McDonald's fries, but I'm not sure you're eating in McDonald's, but if you're eating like potato fries, that fried potatoes, not in tallow, which is mostly monounsaturated and saturated fat, you're getting a lot of these peroxidation byproducts that are carcinogenic, mutagenic, damaging to our cells, our DNA, etc.,
00:55:51
Speaker
So you're getting that in your food and that's going into your body and that actually depletes you of the vitamin which, yeah, the the seed oils have them that you're eating, if you were eating them and the nuts, they have them, but if you're consuming a lot of these...
00:56:07
Speaker
Hydroxyldehyde, H&E, that's going to deplete you. And then also the oxidative stress caused by being in the sun, by being hot as a warm-blooded mammal, that also will deplete your vitamin E. So it's not like, oh, but they come with vitamin that protects it.
00:56:21
Speaker
the PUFA in the body. well It's not as simple of that as that, and that's what they're kind of painting it out to be in that article. right The other thing is if you look at some of these byproducts that they don't measure in in those studies, in that meta-analysis, for example, look at this 20-H-E-T-E,
00:56:41
Speaker
interferes with insulin signaling and contributes to obesity-driven insulin resistance. So this is, again, a metabolite of arachidonic acid, right?
00:56:53
Speaker
This has been implicated in the development of obesity-associated complications such as diabetes and insulin resistance. So you have, it's pretty common, folks with obesity, right? to have more inflammation, more oxidative stress, things like that. So this particular metabolite can contribute to insulin resistance. So then you're like, is is it is it eating too many carbs? No, it's not eating too many carbs, obesity, insulin resistance, and diabetes.
00:57:23
Speaker
don't have a lot to do with with eating a lot of carbs. what there were like but Folks that are obese and have insulin resistance and diabetes would probably have eaten a lot of carbs along the way.
00:57:38
Speaker
But it's usually in the context of a very high-puffer diet, because that is that is the the standard American diet. And a lot of those folks have been eating the standard American diet. You don't hear about someone eating the, you know, the not that I think the Mediterranean diet is all that, you know, great.
00:57:59
Speaker
But you don't hear about people doing that diet and and being like, so for the most part, obese and insulin resistant, hyperglycemic, stuff like that. Now, there is actually, if you look at in Malta, we were in Malta a few years ago with my wife, also in Spain.
00:58:16
Speaker
It was pretty surprising. There was quite a lot of obese people there. In Malta, there was a lot of obese people. But what's interesting is... the The biggest change in the recent couple of decades is just more and more oils being used in in cooking, in in in fast food, in processed food, whereas before in Spain they would use a lot more olive oil, which they still do, but the seed oils are a bigger market share now because they're cheaper still. So if you're like if you are
00:58:48
Speaker
restaurant and you can cut your oil costs in half for certain things you're preparing, then it it does make sense. there's there's a There's certain numbers you can run. it It does make sense to actually make those trade-offs.
00:59:02
Speaker
So I think, and the other reason probably Malta there's a lot of obese people is they import most of their food. So, you know... if you look at the We went to the in one of the shops there and there was no there was no organic food, I don't think. Or maybe there was like some few organic things, maybe eggs, but they were super expensive. So just a lot of what people have to do is buy what's in the shop, which is going to be grains, oil-based things or things with oil, processed with oil, or eating out, a lot of which will be you know stuff processed with oils.
00:59:35
Speaker
so that That's the thing. These folks, if they wanted to actually see do seed oils have a negative effect on human health, they would look at a bunch of these oxidized linoleic acid metabolites.
00:59:53
Speaker
So you have... there's I think there's like hundreds of them, but there's like 9-HOD, 13-HOD, OXO-ODE, like i said, those heats, MDA, malondialdehyde, 4-HNE.
01:00:08
Speaker
like if you like If you genuinely want to research this, And to just for the sake of knowledge, are these good, are these bad? That's the kind of stuff we want to be looking at because I'll tell you why.
01:00:19
Speaker
You just saw this 20-HETE interferes with insulin signaling and contributes to obesity-driven insulin resistance. But then look there look at this other one here, 4-HNE.
01:00:30
Speaker
This one is 4-hydroxydonanol. This is like one of the most sort of popular of these compounds at the moment. But they are, this paper is called, it's review, Role of 4-Hydroxynoninol in the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Selected Age-Related Neurodegenerative Disorders.
01:00:53
Speaker
Now, do you develop Alzheimer's disease or age-related neurodegenerative disorders in four to eight weeks or six to 12 weeks? No.
01:01:04
Speaker
No. So these people are, like, really, honestly, like, there is special place in hell for the people funding that website, doing this to to to the American public, which I'm sure it's most American readers. Yeah.
01:01:24
Speaker
You're not going to develop Alzheimer's disease in six weeks or 12 weeks eating these oils. You know what I'm saying? But this paper is clearly implicated. And I've seen – this is also, I think, in the book.
01:01:39
Speaker
I've seen also 4-hydroxynonol being implicated in depression as well. So there's a lot of like other things where these oils, these the lipid peroxidation and oxidative stress caused by these oils is implicated in things you wouldn't think.
01:01:53
Speaker
I mean, sure, you know the atherosclerosis, yes. Neurodegeneration, yes. But also, like you saw, diabetes, diabetes. the Actually, there's another one here, preeclampsia.
01:02:07
Speaker
This is a pathological aspects of lipid peroxidation. This is a another paper. So there's a lot of research involved research implicating lipid peroxidation in aging and basically a lot of, pretty much most conditions now, there's an aspect of oxidative stress, right?
01:02:31
Speaker
so If you just think about it very plainly, what causes lipid peroxidation? Well, it's when lipids get peroxidized. Which lipids are the most susceptible to peroxidation, which is the damaging of them?
01:02:47
Speaker
That's what per peroxidation means. Oxygen kind of damages them. Well, thepoleon satary fat are the fats have the most points on them, the most double bonds that are are able to be peroxidized. Monounsaturated fats have only one double bond.
01:03:06
Speaker
Saturated fats are the most stable because they don't have double bonds. So when you think about it and when you understand what causes lipid peroxidation, again, oxygen. Yes, we use oxygen in to make energy. So it's it's pretty prevalent you know in our metabolism. But then also heat.
01:03:26
Speaker
heat We know that oils will go rancid eventually even in the fridge. right In a warm environment, they will go rancid even faster. Now, warm environment, ambient temperature in your house is...
01:03:42
Speaker
nowhere near as warm as your body temperature, right? Token, don't know, in Fahrenheit it's 20, 30 degrees, I don't even know. But in Celsius it's a good 15, 17 degrees, you know?
01:03:59
Speaker
So that's a lot. That's a huge, that's almost double, you know huge, huge difference. So lipid peroxidation is super damaging, it ages us, it causes diseases, it basically it's basically driver a primary driver of aging and dysfunction as I call it in my How to Actually Live Longer book.
01:04:18
Speaker
So why in the name of the all that is good and holy would we ever allow these people to to to trick us into believing that these are not only healthy but they're they're healthier than animal fats, which are mostly saturated and monounsaturated fats. And then, if you again, so this is they didn't look at they looked at, in those studies, different markers that they skipped a lot of markers that could indicate...
01:04:49
Speaker
you know, oxidative stress and inflammation. But there was one paper I had in the book, i remember this, that's why I kind of brought it here, but look at this. From 1998 in the journal Prostaglandus, leukotrienes, essential fatty acids, a high linoleic acid diet increases oxidative stress in vivo and affects nitric oxide metabolism in humans.
01:05:09
Speaker
So... They measured urinary levels of 8 iso-PGF-alpha and nitric oxide metabolites as well as plasma S-ICAM. So they were eating either linoleic acid or oleic acid.
01:05:24
Speaker
and Interestingly, that these are strictly controlled diets. Right? so 38 volunteers, 20 women, 18 men, mean age 27, so pretty young people as well, consumed a high a baseline diet rich in saturated fatty acids for four weeks,
01:05:42
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And then they were switched to either a high linoleic acid diet, 11.5%, or high oleic acid diet, 18%, for four weeks. During the linoleic acid, that's the PUFA, and the oleic acid diet, nearly all food was provided for the whole day.
01:06:01
Speaker
So this is actually really... really well done paper where they're not just giving you some pills or some liquid to to to drink at home, they were actually providing the food for the people.
01:06:13
Speaker
So, a control group of 13 subjects consumed their habitual diet throughout the study. Now, they looked, basically, no significant changes were seen in the Oleic acid group Oleic acid is the the the main one in olive oil Significant differences between the linoleic acid and control group were found for both 8-oxo PGF 2-alpha and nitric oxide whereas the OA-LA groups did not differ with respect to any parameter So in conclusion, the high linoleic acid diet increased oxidative stress and affected endothelial function in a way which may, in the long term, predispose to endothelial dysfunction.
Oxidative Stress and Long-term Health
01:06:55
Speaker
And endothelial dysfunction, you can basically read as damage to the blood vessels. that can over deck years and decades lead to atherosclerosis and all the unpleasant complications that occur there to four.
01:07:14
Speaker
is that Is that even word? So that's that was four-week study, right? So interesting how in those 30 studies in the meta-analysis, they didn't find this.
01:07:30
Speaker
But a four-week study found it. and Isn't that interesting? So then if we look at... i Nearly done here, by the way. Don't worry. We're almost done.
01:07:42
Speaker
So how was the... I just wanted to check inside that paper what what and how much they were given for for those trials.
01:07:51
Speaker
So let's see. Where was it? Okay, so check this out. So...
01:07:58
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We had, here we go.
01:08:05
Speaker
Some examples of what they were doing. For example, one of the Almond-Farinelli 1999 trial in Healthy Men, they were given the interventional safflower oil, 22 grams per day.
01:08:19
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But check this out. Look at this. The control was flaxseed oil.
01:08:26
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So that was six-week study. So how is a how is a control flaxseed oil? So they were given 22 versus 10 grams of flaxseed oil.
01:08:38
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So how is that a control, though? And then the Cornish 2009 study in healthy men, they were given 30 milliliters of corn oil as the intervention, and the control was flaxseed oil.
01:08:52
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So what are they, they're comparing is corn oil more inflammatory than flaxseed oil? Well, I mean, that's not, that's not very, that's not very good science, right?
01:09:10
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So I just wanted to go back because they had this, the seed oils, they had that seed, wait, I should just see if can get this.
01:09:21
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Get this open up again. Where's the seed oils? They had a good chart here. Okay. so So what did it we say? Flaxseed oil? Flaxseed oil?
01:09:35
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30 milliliters? That was the control? And look at flaxseed oil here. Where is it? Flax.
01:09:44
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Look at this. Flaxseed oil is 73% polyunsaturated fat. How is that a control? And the control is like you're supposed to see does the intervention increase whatever marker could be, you know, in this case, inflammatory marker.
01:10:03
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And then the statistical significance based on the control. so But if you're giving another poofer-rich oil, and look at this. so that was one study.
01:10:14
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The Cornish study did that. The free study, 2004, Finland, healthy smokers, Sunflower oil versus low LA mix, six but 6 grams. I think that's guess something some better.
01:10:31
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Then the Caracas 2016 US study, PCOS women, soybean oil, 2.57 grams. versus 0.97 grams of flaxseed oil. So, i mean, you're giving them like two and a half grams of soybean oil. What kind of a frigging trial for six weeks expects much of a change from two and a half grams of oil?
01:10:55
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You know what i mean? Against, and then the control is also flaxseed oil, one one gram of flaxseed oil. It's, you know the research If you start looking at the research, it's it's really like it's pretty horrific. Not all of them were that bad.
01:11:12
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Terpinon, 98, 99, healthy people. Sunflower oil, 33,000. to turineone and nineteen eight ninety nine healthy people sunflower oil thirty three grams versus high oleic sunflower oil, you know, so that'll be more monounsaturated. But really, is that is that the right control to use, you know?
01:11:33
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Shouldn't you use like coconut oil, which is mostly saturated? shouldn't you use, you know, at least butter or or olive oil? They were using so many of these. were using flax or or here they're using olive and rapeseed oil. So just really like strange, strange why they would do that, right?
01:11:54
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So again, you can you can grab a bunch of studies like this and put them in a meta-analysis and it looks impressive. But
01:12:06
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When you kind of, even like you saw in 20, 30 minutes how many holes we can poke in this analysis. that You know, you poke enough holes in in something and then it's enough to just discard it and say, this this is not even worth, like, is it worth going through each one of these studies then and and kind of corroborate, like, if that's what, if these are the parameters of the study studies, like, they were not well designed. They're not useful for us just by virtue of their them being only 6 weeks, 12 weeks, 4 weeks.
01:12:39
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That's bad already. Just by virtue of measuring so few markers related to inflammation and oxidative stress because these are go hand in hand. You can't just look at 3 markers or 2 markers in a study and say, this is fine, keep doing it.
01:12:54
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After 6 weeks, these 2 markers we looked at were were not statistically significant. So go right ahead and eat this. in large quantities for the rest of your life you'll be fine you'll be fine guys so that's kind of it i hope i hope that kind of makes sense i hope i think that the the big question or the the big sort of takeaway is that there's a lot of
01:13:24
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organizations out there that look like they're out to help us but when you dig deeper into it and when you just see the quality of the information they give us you kind of you kind of start to see through the through
Supplements vs Plant-based Diets
01:13:41
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the nonsense. Like these guys with the CSPI, there was another, look at this, should you take a out in multivitamin?
01:13:51
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there was one There was one where they were basically crapping on all the supplements except vitamin C, iron, and like In specific situations, zinc, they're basically crapping on all the supplements are a scam, except these few that are you know doctor approved. And what's interesting is that doctors really, most most of them from what I've seen from my clients, they're going to give you iron, that's a common one, which is probably one of the probably the worst things for most people to take.
01:14:27
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Then vitamin C, which I don't know even why. i guess because vitamin C antioxidant. And then occasionally maybe they'll do like zinc or something like that. But for the most part, like other than that, apparently all the other things...
01:14:42
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they're they're They're worthless, even though there's actually tons of research on these specific things for for various for various sort of mechanisms, purposes, conditions, etc.
01:14:53
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right So at the end, what do they want? They want you to eat seed oils... they want you to eat a plant-based diet look at this health eating make make sure you get your hot oatmeal in the morning doesn't that look delicious that looks tasty as heck sign me up they want rfk out he is satan in i was gonna say incarcerated incarnated on earth
01:15:22
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And they want you to make sure that you're GBD-jabbed really like on schedule. okay don't don't Don't even like think about skipping.
01:15:33
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And make sure that as soon as you're ready... When your cholesterol is high enough, you get on that thats whole conveyor belt of poisons and keep paying your health insurance and make sure you go for your all your checkups, all your scans, all your radiation.
01:15:53
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and you know, if something happens, it's probably genetic, there's nothing we can do about it, so we can just, you know, manage your symptoms with a symptom masking.
01:16:05
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Chemicals that make companies billions upon billions upon billions each year, and many get recalled off the market thousands have been recalled off the market, if not at least hundreds for, you know, maiming people, injuring and and killing people.
01:16:24
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But what are you going to do? You know, you want to make an omelet, you got to break some eggs,
Conclusion and Audience Value
01:16:29
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right? So I hope you found this.
01:16:34
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I hope you found this valuable. And yeah, thanks for tuning in. And I'll see you on the next one. I apologize once again. Like I said before, brevity is not my strong point.
01:16:47
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But I hope I wasn't ranting as much as last time on this one. So thanks for tuning in. If you're still here, God bless you. And I'll see you soon. Thank you.