What you eat plays a crucial role in how well your immune system functions. As a result, you can actively support the body’s ability to ward off acute and chronic conditions with the food you consume. Depending on your food choices, you can also prevent it.
Summary
• There is an even worse villain than sugar for your immune system and overall health: industrially processed seed oils, often called ”vegetable oils.”
• The root of the harmful biochemical reactions triggered by seed oils is linoleic acid, the primary fatty acid found in polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs).
• The dramatic increase in seed oil consumption over the past decades is a major cause of soaring rates of heart disease, cancer, age-related macular degeneration, diabetes, obesity, and dementia.
• Unsaturated fat intake is associated with increased mortality in covid-19, while saturated fat intake reduces the risk of death.
• Linoleic acid is present in most processed foods, including sauces and salad dressings, along with ”healthy” foods like chicken, pork, and olive oil.
The root of the harmful biochemical reactions triggered by seed oils is linoleic acid, which is an 18-carbon omega-6 fatty acid. Linoleic acid is the primary fatty acid found in polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) and accounts for about 80% of the fatty acid composition in vegetable oils. Omega-6 fats need to be balanced with omega-3 fats to avoid being harmful, but this is not the case for most Americans.
Therefore, seed oils are worse than sugar
A recent CNBC News report named sugar the ”worst food ingredient for your immune system,” largely because excessive consumption can contribute to insulin resistance and obesity, increasing inflammation in the body and causing damage to blood vessels.
While your immune system is occupied with addressing these issues, CNBC notes:
”This creates a big distraction for the immune system and paves the way for dangerous bacteria and viruses to slip through our body’s defenses.”
In fact, it has been known since at least the 1970s that sugar weakens the immune system (while fasting strengthens it), and I recommend limiting added sugar to no more than 25 grams per day or 15 grams per day if you are insulin resistant or diabetic.
However, most health experts simply do not understand that seed oils are even worse than sugar. These fats embed themselves in your cell membranes and stay there for about seven years, wreaking havoc on your health.
Not only are most omega-6s you eat, including seed oils, damaged and oxidized through processing, but even if they are unheated and pristine when consumed in anything but tiny amounts, your body breaks them down into free radicals that damage virtually every tissue in the body.
”Most of this linoleic acid, when it oxidizes, develops these lipid hydroperoxides and then rapidly degenerates into… oxidized linoleic acid metabolites,” says Dr. Chris Knobbe, an ophthalmologist and founder and president of the Cure AMD Foundation.
Oxidized linoleic acid metabolites (OXLAM) create a perfect storm, as they are cytotoxic, genotoxic, mutagenic, carcinogenic, atherogenic, and thrombogenic, according to Chris Knobbe. Their atherosclerotic and thrombogenic effects are particularly concerning because they can lead to strokes and blood clots, as well as metabolic dysfunction.
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