jandrade1997
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I know from reading Ray Peat's articles on fats, free fatty acids are bad things. However, I have a few questions on this that hopefully you guys can enlighten me on. Firstly, are ALL free fatty acids bad, or just free PUFAs? I ask this because many well-researched nutrition "gurus" advocate ketosis as an ideal metabolic state (this is a high free fatty acid state). I know Ray Peat dislikes fat oxidation and I'm under the impression that this is ONLY because it suppresses glucose oxidation which he considers superior. Are there any other reasons Peat recommends against fat oxidation? If not, I have a theory. I'm thinking that these dietary gurus tend to have diets very high in butter and coconut oil, two fats espoused by Peat. They also tend to have low PUFA intakes. This is just speculation, but perhaps the free SATURATED (not PUFAs) fatty acids in the blood are actually protective against free PUFAs. Ray Peat has even stated that saturated fatty acids have the opposite effects of PUFAs and reduce stress and inflammation. Perhaps, the high saturated free fatty acid content in the blood protects against free PUFAs, reduce inflammation and provide all the benefits that others say ketosis provides and low PUFA intake would protect against the negative effects cited by Peat. It seems, as long as the mitochondria are able to adapt, saturated fats and ketones could become as anti-stress, if not more so, than glucose. Am I missing anything here? Could a low carb, high saturated fat diet provide the same protective and anti-stress effects as a high carbohydrate diet, with all the benefits cited by researcher like Kruse, Sisson and Asprey? What are the reasons that glucose metabolism is superior to fat metabolism in Ray Peat's mind?
Thanks,
JJ
Thanks,
JJ