Tag: PUFA
Iron drives heart failure by fattening the heart; iron chelators may prevent/cure
Recommending high intake of iron is one of the most common dietary recommendations of registered dieticians, as…
Diabetes, Alzheimer’s, cancer are bioenergetic diseases; PUFA may be the cause
The bad news for PUFA (in this case linoleic acid) just keep piling on. At this point,…
PUFA damages mitochondria, blocks mitophagy, leads to heart damage
I can’t get access to the full study text, so the comments I have here are based…
Pregnenolone/aspirin can block cellular estrogen uptake, PUFA promotes it
I have posted in the past about the “obscure” estrogen estrone sulfate (E1S) and its role as…
Aspirin may treat pancreatitis…and other fibrotic conditions
While most of medicine’s attention is focused on acute pancreatitis (AP) since AP is often deadly, rates…
PUFA metabolites may trigger diabetes type I
Type I diabetes is known as an autoimmune condition. Namely, for some “unknown” reason(s) the beta-cells of…
PUFA is part of spike protein, PUFA restriction may treat COVID-19
A pair of studies forwarded by one of my readers. The first one discovered that a PUFA…
Lipolysis preferentially releases PUFA from adipose tissue
…compared to SFA and/or MUFA. This topic is considered highly controversial in Peat-land, mostly because of the…
Stearic acid (SA) is an estrogen receptor antagonist
Over the last year or so I stumbled upon a few studies claiming both SA (C18:0) and…
Higher PUFA intake correlated with mental disease
An epidemiological study, yet still useful IMO since the correlation was maintained across the various levels of…