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Seed Oils

August 26, 20251h 18m · 14,322 words

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Why are you, as a man, afraid of sunflowers. Support us: Hear bonus episodes on Patreon Watch Aubrey's documentary Buy Aubrey's book Listen to Mike's other podcast Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more Links! The O6-O3 ratio: A critical appraisal Seed Oils: Are They Actually Toxic? No need to avoid healthy omega-6 fats Omega-6 Fatty Acids and Risk for Cardiovascular Disease Do Seed Oils Make You Sick?

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the scientific community does not actually say seed oils like seed oils is a term that doesn't really emerge until like 2015 in the academic literature they say polyunsaturated fatty acids or poofas
the reason that i ask is that we've talked about two different sort of approaches to use of research by grifters one is the dr oz approach where he describes a study you have to go try and find it based on the description and like nothing matching that description exists right so i didn't know if we were dealing with that or if we were dealing with the dave asprey type right where someone is like footnoting you to death sort of counting on you not checking on the footnotes
she often cites herself so she'll say like human beings evolved consuming a diet that contained equal omega-3s and omega-6s and then it's like footnote 14 and you go to footnote 14 and it's like simopoulos 1999

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