Chris1
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What are the staples/best food to eat on a low PUFA diet.
What are some high calorie low PUFA foods?
What are some high calorie low PUFA foods?
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Avoid all isolated PUFA oils such as corn, soya, and canola. Avoid pork lard. Use butter, refined or hydrogenated coconut oil. Beef tallow is fine. These are used for cooking. If you cook your own food, you can control intakes of such oil. If you eat out, you can't. Eating out regularly means you're getting exposed to PUFA intakes.What are the staples/best food to eat on a low PUFA diet.
What are some high calorie low PUFA foods?
If so, do you ever get cravings for vitamin k foods or folate foods?
Eg. I read that insufficient folate may cause grey hair!
It's honestly not that hard. If you eat regular whole foods staying under 4g is not much of a challenge. Who craves PUFA? I have never had a craving for fat at all lol. I guess if you are addicted to doritos and other junk food it might be hard to give that up?And this is where the modern food industry f**cks you over. Unless you can prepare every meal yourself avoiding PUFA's is going to be like climbing a mountain. When you have lobbyists for sugar and fat industries, as in most things money 'talks', to the detriment of most populations.
In the 1950's morbidities were a lot less than now, because family life was different socially, but hey life gets better for each subsequent generation(~)
Thanks for share!Found some more info on his website about the protocol: Ernährung bei MS (it's in german, you can google translate it).
Diet consists of fruits, vegetables, complex carbohydrate (no whole grains due to PUFA content), fish, occasional lean meats, lean dairy. No foods high in linoleic acid allowed e.g nuts, oils, fatty animal products.
I must say I'm pretty impressed with the results of just cutting out linoleic acid. Many patients are even seeing remyelination. Pasta, gluten, dairy, nightshades etc still allowed, just needs to be low in PUFA.
However he does recommend omega-3 supplements which Ray Peat obviously isn't a fan of. I do wonder whether there's a possible net benefit to very low dietary omega-6 (1-2 grams) together with some omega-3 to further displace/compete with arachidonic acid in cell membranes, shift from PGE2 to PGE3 and the other 3 series prostaglandins. Especially for inflammatory and autoimmune conditions...
He's been doing this since the 90's and seems pretty clued in on dangers of excess PUFA/AA:
"The causes of inflammation are very diverse and the forms of inflammation differ. In one point, however, all inflammations are the same, they need a fuel: the highly unsaturated arachidonic acid."
I don't have MS but struggle with some sort of chronic inflammatory condition/CFS/PEM and feeling like crap many days.
Currently eating mostly beef, rice, beans, some fruits and vegetables = PUFA count at 3 grams per day! Will be more consistent with taking B-vitamins, vitamin E, selenium.