Fructose Strongly Increases Palmitic Acid Production

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Here is a RP quote on Palmitic Acid from "The transparency of life: Cataracts as a model of age-related disease" . I am not sure if there is any extra meaning to lens using palmitic acid.

Among the factors that probably have a role in preventing cataracts: Thyroid, progesterone, pregnenolone, vitamin E, iodide, pyruvate. Increasing the carbon dioxide lowers the cell’s pH, and tends to resist swelling. Palmitic acid (a saturated fat that can be synthesized by our tissues) is normally oxidized by the lens. Calcium blockers experimentally prevent cataracts, suggesting that magnesium and thyroid (which also act to exclude calcium from cells) would have the same effect.

Thyroid hormone is essential for maintaining adequate carbon dioxide production, for minimizing lactic acid, cortisol and prolactin, for regulating calcium and magnesium, for avoiding hypotonicity of the body fluids, and for improving the ratio of palmitic acid to linoleic acid.
http://raypeat.com/articles/aging/trans ... acts.shtml
 
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Mittir said:
Here is a RP quote on Palmitic Acid from "The transparency of life: Cataracts as a model of age-related disease" . I am not sure if there is any extra meaning to lens using palmitic acid.

Among the factors that probably have a role in preventing cataracts: Thyroid, progesterone, pregnenolone, vitamin E, iodide, pyruvate. Increasing the carbon dioxide lowers the cell’s pH, and tends to resist swelling. Palmitic acid (a saturated fat that can be synthesized by our tissues) is normally oxidized by the lens. Calcium blockers experimentally prevent cataracts, suggesting that magnesium and thyroid (which also act to exclude calcium from cells) would have the same effect.

Thyroid hormone is essential for maintaining adequate carbon dioxide production, for minimizing lactic acid, cortisol and prolactin, for regulating calcium and magnesium, for avoiding hypotonicity of the body fluids, and for improving the ratio of palmitic acid to linoleic acid.
http://raypeat.com/articles/aging/trans ... acts.shtml


I think he also wrote in one of his articles that palmitic acid activates pyruvate dehydrogenase, which inhibits glycolysis and restores oxidative metabolism. One of the new promising (and free) anti-cancer drugs DCA does the exact same thing but it quickly becomes toxic. Palmitic acid could be a cheaper and safer alternative.
 

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