Max Lugavere

by not consuming enough fiber, which is one of the reasons why fiber continues to be really good for us.

We see direct relationship between how much fiber a person is eating and reduced risk for myriad non-communicable diseases, all cause mortality, et cetera.

You want to consume more fiber to help basically seal up the pores in the gut.

And it is speculated that the brain will benefit from that because that will allow the brain to exist in what is essentially a low inflammation environment.

I don't think that flooding the modern food environment with industrially refined, bleached and deodorized grain and seed oils is good for us.

But I also think that like we can't lose sight of like the big picture.

Big levers.

I like to say it's important to major in the majors, not the minors.

And, you know, for most people today struggling with insulin resistance, struggling with overweight and obesity, hyper fixating on seed oils, I think, is losing sight of the forest for the trees.

That being said, there are still a lot of looming questions about obesity.

The brain health consequences of flooding the modern food environment with these hyper industrialized seed oils that are rich in linoleic acid.

Now, linoleic acid is an essential nutrient.

We require a certain amount of omega-6 fatty acids from plants.

the standpoint of health.

There are looming questions about what the over consumption of linoleic acid is doing from the standpoint of brain health.

There's also a question of the processing of these oils.

These oils typically are extracted from the whole food matrix where they're typically, you know, in whole foods, omega-6 fatty acids, linoleic acid are found with antioxidants like vitamin E, which is a really important fat soluble antioxidant that serves in whole foods to protect those fats.

When we extract these fats,

as we do when we're producing grain and seed oils, right?

We're using sometimes harsh chemical solvents or really high temperatures.