Seed Oils, Plant Based Diets & Chronic Inflammation (New Study)

High Intensity Health with Mike Mutzel, MS

Mike Mutzel

Fasting, Nutrition, Autophagy, Ketogenic, Keto, Health & Fitness, Ketodiet, Medicine

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🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

A new study finds vegan dieters have higher concentrations of omega-6 fatty acids and lower quantities of health-promoting omega-3 fatty acids, including pro-resolving lipid mediators, in their cell membranes when compared to omnivores.

Resolvins are bioactive lipids made from dietary omega-3 fatty acids that help resolve inflammation.

Resolvins were not detected in the plasma of any vegan subjects, whereas nine out of twenty-four omnivores had detectable concentrations.

These new findings have important implications for heart, brain and prenatal health.

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----------------Show Notes--------------------

00:00 Intro
0:17 Vegan VS Omnivore health-promoting omega-3 fatty acids
0:36 Omega-3 Index
0:50 HRV in Vegan VS Omnivore
1:32 Main takeaway
2:10 Linoleic acid decreases conversion of Omega-3
3:42 Importance of your omega-3 index
4:10 HRV in vegans VS Omnivores
5:10 Omega-3 Index and HRV
6:04 Seed oils lower conversion of ALA to EPA and DHA
6:31 Main findings
7:30 ALA conversion is low
8:02 Creatine is low in vegan dieters
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0:00.0	According to the media and mainstream medical doctors, going on a vegan diet is the best
0:03.2	thing you can do to support cardiometabolic health, but a recently published study found
0:07.0	that there's different concentrations of health promoting omega-3 fatty acid metabolites
0:11.8	in vegans versus omnivores, as well as changes in heart rate variability and the omega-3 index,
0:17.5	as well as concentrations of pro-resolving mediators, which are key anti-inflammatory mediators
0:23.1	that might help to reduce cardiometabolic health risk. So we're going to talk about this study
0:27.2	in greater detail. It didn't get a lot of media attention, but it's something you should be
0:30.8	aware about. If you've been on a vegan diet for an extended period of time, you might want to
0:34.7	consider testing your omega-3 index and possibly supporting your levels of omega-3s, specifically
0:40.5	DHA, as well as EPA, because the studies this study actually compared vegans, and these are people
0:46.3	that were on a vegan or vegetarian diet for more than two years compared to healthy people who were
0:50.2	on an omnivores diet for more than two years, and they found differences in heart rate variability
0:55.1	as well as concentrations of EPA DHA and high levels of linoleic acid in the vegan dieters. So
1:01.3	it's important to recognize that low heart rate variability predicts sudden cardiac death. Long
1:05.1	chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fat status is positively associated with heart rate variability.
1:09.5	This cross-sectional study investigated where the vegans between ages of 40 and 70 years old,
1:14.3	whose diets are naturally free of EPA and DHA have lower HRV compared with omnivores.
1:19.6	Proportions of long chain polyunsaturated omega-3 fats in both their blood cell,
1:24.2	as well as plasma fatty acid concentrations, as well as plasma concentration of long chain
1:29.3	polyunsaturated omega-3 derived lipid mediators were significantly lower in vegans, as well as
1:35.3	daytime heart rate variability was actually lower in vegans compared to omnivores. So again,
1:40.4	this is important because we hear that going on a plant-based diet is the best thing you can do
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