{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Under Load","title":"Seed Oils: I Read Both Sides, Including the Trials Nobody Quotes","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1104,"description":"I drank butter for breakfast for two years. Two tablespoons, blended into coffee, standing at the kitchen counter before anyone else was awake.\nI have a medical degree and a dental one. I did it because someone on a podcast explained the science, and it made sense to me at the time.\nThese things always seem to make sense at first. That is the real problem.\nAfter butter came MCT oil, then coconut, then ghee, then olive. Five phases over fifteen years, each with its own expert, its own mechanism, and a fat I was told to avoid. The current villain is seed oils, and lately more executives have asked me about them than about anything else.\nSo I read both sides properly, including the arguments I expected to disagree with.\nIn this edition:\nWhy the critics are right about the biology. Linoleic acid really is stored in your cell membranes and your body fat, and its share of American adipose tissue roughly doubled between 1959 and 2008. That part is not in dispute.\nWhere the chain breaks. The one time anyone tested the DNA claim in living people, and what they actually found.\nThe omega-6 to omega-3 ratio, and why the study everybody cites points somewhere other than where they think it does.\nThe two randomized trials that should trouble anyone who believes this question is settled, including the one where more of the intervention group died. I do not soften it, and I explain why the margarine explanation the internet reaches for was rejected by the trial's own authors.\nWhy the cohort studies and the randomized trials disagree with each other, and what each design can and cannot tell you. This is the part of clinical training that transfers to reading any study.\nTwo of my own phases that turned out badly, including the one where I made things more concentrated while believing I had made them lighter.\nAnd a hallway outside a wrestling dormitory, which is where this piece actually starts, and where it ends.\nIf you have ever thrown out a bottle of oil because of something you...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/D6GUGKGhv_DEKkMXOUaw9zVKHR_WqCVlo9ECODchftY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wODc1/MzQxYzZmMTk4MDBl/ODhhM2E4NWIwYTFj/OWExOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}