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— Paul Saladino, MD (@paulsaladinomd) September 6, 2024
My problem with most pork is that it's fed grains, corn, and soy and that corn and soy are very high in linoleic acid and pigs and chickens can't get rid of that linoleic acid, which means the fat of pigs and the fat of chickens fed corn and soy ends up much higher in linoleic acid than the corresponding fat of a wild pig or a wild chicken. And wild chickens and wild pigs, the amount of linoleic acid is around 5% or 6%, but in domesticated chickens and pigs, you're looking at 15% or 16% linoleic acid. And excess linoleic acid is the polyunsaturated fatty acid found in seed oils that I'm very worried about for a variety of reasons.
Learn more about seed oils from Saladino through the podcasts he's done with Georgy Dinkov, Tucker Goodrich, and Jeff Nobbs. Lots of reasons why seed oils and linoleic acid in seed oils harm humans. It accumulates in some membranes, and we can't get rid of it. Probably causes increased permeability of membranes, it accumulates in mitochondrial membranes in the cardiolipin, causing problems with the electron transport chain. Leads to increased oxidation of LDL, increased oxidized LDL, and has been shown in randomized controlled studies, like the Minnesota Coronary, which is a long study with over 9,000 participants to be linked directly in that randomized controlled trial to higher rates of coronary heart disease, which makes sense when you realize that linoleic acid gets into the LDL particles and causes increased oxidation, etc.
Will never forget the first time I ate food that included Canola oil. My heart flipped inside my chest. Shocked the hell out of me.
