But the two main questions were, is epithelamic inflammation involved in, at least in the

rodent models, when you see the obesity happen from the high fat diets that

people use, can that be measured as sort of causal? And then looking at the specific types of fat,

can I see a difference in both the obesity and other things like insulin resistance and body

composition? Can I get a difference in that by keeping the amount of fat the same,

but changing the composition from pretty much all saturated

to very highly unsaturated.

I'm not saturated. Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio.

As always, I am your host, Danny Lennon, and today we are at episode 197 of the podcast and in just a few

moments I'm going to be joined by researcher Kyle Mamunas who has a PhD in nutritional science

and is currently a researcher mainly looking at the area of the effects of fatty acids on energy balance

regulation. And today we're going to talk about some of that research and some of the

implications for that and potentially some of the effects that we see with polyunsaturated fat

and saturated fat and the different proportions of those in the diet and some changes that

we can see, particularly at a cellular level, that may be a bit counter to what typically

gets discussed.

So just another important facet to this, that might be something worth considering.

As you'll see, Kyle's done some really interesting research.

And while most of the work we'll talk about today is based on rodent models, I just think

viewing things with a open mind and looking at different hypotheses can be really interesting.

So hopefully today throws some of that up to you.

Before we get into the interview itself,

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