Makrosky
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I just like this forum. **** off.If you think it’s hype then why do you spend time on here (a forum that advocates PUFA avoidance as much as is realistically possible) trying to convince people it is hype? Why not go to some other forum and tell them about how great you think PUFA is?
Ray Peat has written extensively about this and many have already gone over these topics on this forum. Ray Peat does not agree with a lot of the cell membrane theories espoused by those who think all PUFA is essential, etc.
Ray has mentioned that many of these countries eat relatively low calorie and when one eats low calorie, a lot of the effects of PUFA are mitigated because they are burned off and not stored.
However, continually burning PUFA for energy can have its own problems as it is not healthy to the mitochondria as well. Also, many of these countries have moved to a more modern diet and have left their more traditional diet and some of these diets were lower in PUFA. But in many of these counties the obesity rate over the last few decades and century had gone UP, NOT down. Even in large parts of Asia people are getting fatter. So you are using these countries to try to say PUFA isn’t bad but these countries have increasingly become more unhealthy over the last century so that actually wouldn’t give credence to your case but it would give more support to what Ray Peat says.