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

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...................

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Good Health & Long Life,

Greg Watson, 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

January 17, 2002

The _Paleolithic Prescription_ by S. Body Eaton says that

polyunsaturated fat accounts for ~32% of total fat from wild game. Do

you consider that to be bad? If not, I assume you are just against

unpaleolithic consumption of fats (ie. oils in general which aren't

available in nature).

Grassfed beef has a n6:n3 ration of 4:1 (perfect). Grainfed beef has

a ratio of 99:1. If someone (most people in the western world and

probably on this list) is eating grainfed beef then would you support

consuming a bit more flaxseed than normal to account for the

discrepancy?

Here's the kicker. If wild game has 32% PUFA, and that's ok. Then,

what's wrong with eating a little bit more walnuts, pumpkin seeds, or

ground flaxseed in general, just making sure to stay away from *oils*?

--Michael

> 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.

January 17, 2002

think about it... I can't even understand it

Thanks anyway Greg

LOL....

Tracy