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Liver, alcohol and the protective effect of SFAs. | The poor, misunderstood calorie

Liver is evil but need not be punished. SFAs. | The poor, misunderstood calorie



George Henderson George Henderson a month ago
A quick search dug up this. Maybe the alcohol increases the HUFA then the polyphenols spare the n3. And this helps with the putative (small) cardiovascular benefit from (small) amounts of wine.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/s...

Red wine polyphenols protect n−3 more than n−6 polyunsaturated fatty acid from lipid peroxidation
  • William Lagakos Mod George Henderson a month ago
    Thanks for the link. Perhaps I should've considered the doses we're talking about: 2-3 vs. 70 drinks/d. Probably not too much in common between the two.
     
     
  • George Henderson George Henderson a month ago
    Just to clarify what I mean by hormetic, which is often abused to mean "mysterious"; hormesis might mean that although we have evolved an improved detoxification capability in regard to some ancient toxin, we still retain some of the compensatory or repair responses that our ancestors evolved previously, to recover from the damage the toxin caused back when detoxification was less effective.