PUFA Depletion
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Is the 30 day no fat diet for PUFA depletion worth it or too dangerous?
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I don't think it's worth it, since it's only a “pseudo depletion”.
In animals, a diet where most of the fat was oleic acid depleted PUFAs (omegas-6 and omegas-3) faster than a diet with no fat or hydrogenated coconut oil.
If I were to try a diet for rapid depletion, it would be a low-fat one supplemented with stearic acid, since most of the stearic is converted to oleic by our delta-6 desaturase (high carbohydrates also increase its activity). The higher the ratio of Oleic to Linoleic the better
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It's quite dangerous because you will be dumping too much free fatty acid into your bloodstream. A few days of no fat is good, maybe 3 days or so, periodically. I always feel flu like symptoms when I have no fat, but it's worth it for a few days on and off.
I find white chocolate a very useful and pleasurable food. Its fat profile seems very helpful.
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Maybe someone smarter can clarify, but to my knowledge, you're not actually depleting your body stores of PUFA. You're just depleting PUFA in the blood stream. If you were eating totally fat free, you'd just switch from fat oxidation to glucose oxidation, therefore, after 30 days, there'd be undetectable amounts of PUFA within blood as you're not oxidizing any fat. But the reason the PUFA in your blood returns to baseline after a high PUFA meal is because you're switching back to fat oxidation. But you're not actually removing the PUFA in your fat stores.
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@RandomUser this makes sense.
