Is Mystric (c14:0) the prime fatty acid?
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……………….