Linoleic Acid [AKA Omega-6] Is Disastrous For Our Health

Omega-6 Health Impacts

This article outlines the positive and negative health impacts of eating omega-6 essential fatty acids. It also explains the health impacts in some detail.

Whilst there are some health benefits, the two double bonds in linoleic acid molecules also mean there’s a good amount of bad…

Sadly the deletarious health impacts can only be described as catastrophic.

But, rather than alerting you to the problems, and leaving it there, this article, and the resources it links to, are all designed to provide you with all the insights you need to mitigate the health risks of excessive linoleic acid (omega-6) consumption.

Sadly, there is hardly a person in the Western world who isn’t excessively exceeding the healthy dietary levels of linoleic acid… So, everyone needs to read this article!

Please note, that simply removing omega-6 fatty acids from your diet is not a solution to returning to good health. Linoleic acid is so oxidative, it needs supplements to neutralise it so that it can slowly and safely be eliminated from the body.

Please read this article in full to completely understand how to safely eliminate omega-6 fatty acids from your body.

Linoleic Acid Introduction

Linoleic acid, also known as omega-6 fatty acid, is required by the body in very small amounts. As it is not produced by the body, it must be obtained from our diet. This makes linoleic acid, or omega-6, an essential fatty acid.

Thankfully, as it is an essential fatty acid, omega-6 is found within almost every food we eat. So, there is zero chance of not getting enough omega-6 naturally from our food, without even thinking about it.

If only this were true of Selenium and Iodine, both of which are vital for thyroid and hormonal health, but are almost impossible to find in our diets! This sad fact, as you will discover, is compounded by linoleic acid consumption.

And, it would also be a game changer if we could get enough magnesium in our diets, as this trace mineral is vital for sleep, bone health, heart health, hormonal health and emotional health. It is also needed for regulating blood sugar, taking a staggering 47 magnesium molecules to process one molecule of sugar!

As there is so much refined sugar in the modern Western diet, it is no surprise that so many of us are deficient in this mineral!

Magnesium also has a critical role to play in keeping headaches and migraines at bay.

Effectively, magnesium is required for thousands of critical functions within the body. However, over 90% of us are deficient in this trace mineral, and are suffering in a multitude of ways, as a consequence.

Sadly, the same is not true of omega-6 fatty acids. We are almost swimming in linoleic acid, by contrast, exposing ourselves to potentially deadly levels of oxidative stress.

The negligible amounts of linoleic acid, naturally found in practically all foods, is sufficient to support healthy bodily function. But concentrations of omega-6 in processed foods are off the charts! All processed foods containing seed oils deliver egregiously detrimental levels of linoleic acid. Plus, we are using seed oils to cook with… so there’s hardly a person in the Western world that isn’t in trouble!

Linoleic acid is also referred to as polyunsaturated fatty acid or PUFA.

This descriptive title reveals a little of why linoleic acid is presenting such health challenges in our modern age…

Diets high in PUFAs can interfere with thyroid hormone utilisation and impair gut health. Our thyroid is the master controller of our endocrine system, and, without digestive health, we can expect to develop chronic autoimmune conditions, over time.

Impaired gut health contributes to systemic inflammation and metabolic disorders.

Plus, omega-6 is oestrogenic, so it can negatively impact our hormones via other mechanisms.

More on the negative impacts of omega-6 essential fatty acids later… First, let’s look at why linoleic acid is considered an essential fatty acid…

Linoleic Acid Health Benefits

As linoleic acid has been deemed an essential fatty acid, this means we not only need it for the maintenance of our health, but also that the body cannot manufacture it itself. this means that we must acquire our omega-6 fatty acids from our food.

However, despite being a necessary part of our diets, we only need negligible amounts of linoleic acid to be healthy.

Sadly, since the advent of processed food, it has been nigh on impossible to avoid excessive levels of linoleic acid in our diets, without committing to a life of religious conscious eating.

However, whilst this article will explore all the horrendous outcomes of excessive omega-6 consumption, it is important to remember, when consumed as nature intended, linoleic acid is a vital nutrient within our complex dietary needs.

For example, omega-6 fatty acids help to support hormonal health. However, as mentioned, we only need very small amounts of omega-6 to provide the hormonal support we need.

Conversely, an excess of omega-6 fatty acid in our diet, over time, leads to potentially catastrophic consequences for our hormones, which, in turn, reduces the quality of our lives, and can ultimately considerably shorten our life expectancy.

This article explores the main reasons why omega-6 fatty acids, in our diet, are so detrimental to our health. So, please share this article with friends and family members who would benefit from this information.

Linoleic Acid & Disease

Linoleic acid is increasingly being implicated as a leading precursor to systemic disease, robbing us of our energy, disrupting our hormones, making us fat, and ruining the quality of our lives.

Dietary fats are crucially important for the following:

• Hormone production
• Signalling molecules – Metabolic signalling
• Energy production – provision
• Cellular structure
• Nutrient absorption

One of the key problems with omega-6 fatty acids in our diet is that it triggers hibernation-like signals in our bodies.

This lowers our metabolic rate, and potentially increase our stress levels, whilst also acting as a precursor to weight gain, due to the laying down of more fat as an energy source, whilst we hibernate.

Worse still, polyunsaturated fatty acids are prone to oxidation. This means that they produce toxic byproducts that can damage all of the following:

• Proteins
• DNA
• Cellular components

Thus, they impact us at a systemic level in every way.

Linoleic acid is vulnerable to oxidation because it contains two double bonds. The carbon atom between these two double bonds is susceptible to oxidation at physiological temperatures, i.e. at body temperature. When PUFAs oxidize at body temperature, they usually cause toxicity and inflammation in the body.

Why Is linoleic Acid Such A Problem Now?

Seed oils are commonly referred to as vegetable oils by the industry that produces it. By association, this is meant to make us think that seed oils are as nutricious, and good for us, as vegetables.

When a product is popularised in this way you are pretty much guaranteed of two things:

• They are trying to hide the reality of the situation.
• They are making way more profit on the popularised product than they could from the thing it has replaced.

Our consumption of linoleic acid has risen exponentially since we entered the industrialised age. This is because, industrial processing is required to extract these seed and nut oils, that are so rich in omega-6.

Seed oils, which are now so often referred to as vegetable oils, weren’t part of the Western diet in the pre-industrial age. This is simply because seed oils can only be extracted via industrialised processes.

The need for human ingenuity to make seed oil production possible, is perhaps partly the reason why we are inclined to elevate the importance of seed oils to such celebrated heights, at the expense of natural animal fats?

But, the reality is, until the Western world industrialised, our diets were almost exclusively reliant on animal sources for our fat content. And, despite the vilification of saturated fats, from animal sources, in the last few decades, these are the fats that have sustained our health throughout the ages, spanning many millennia… and, have delivered us into the 18th century, with barely a heart attack or incidence of cancer being recorded.

As is increasingly common, it has taken a feat of phenomenal hubris and profound wilful ignorance to achieve the degree of distortion necessary to proclaim saturated fats a dangerously harmful food, and seed oils the healthy alternative.

Why hubris? Simple! Nature produces fats in foods at healthy levels… but it takes human intervention to distort the natural balance of things, jettisoning health in favour of the consistency of the appearance and texture of a food, and its flavour. The food industry is very hot on the size, shape and taste of a food remaining the same forever… even entirely natural, unproocessed foods, like fruit and vegetables!

Farmers don’t even bother to pick produce that doesn’t fit through the slotting devices supplied by the supermarkets. If a fruit or vegetable is too big, it will be left to rot in the field.

Since the second half of the 20th century we have seen major advances in medical achievements. But, we have also seen almost universal adoption of convenience food and processed foods.

The use of seed oils in the production of convenience foods, and practically all processed foods, could be seen to have cancelled out all the benefits of modern medical advances, and continued on to decimate the basic tenets of natural health…

Many of the chronic diseases we suffer from today, including the world’s biggest killers, were relatively unheard of, prior to the significant dietary changes adopted in the last few decades.

The industrialisation of farming has also compounded the issue. Nowadays, the commercial production of meat, particularly chicken and pork, has changed the fat composition in these creatures. Both pork nd chicken now contain high levels of linoleic acid if ‘conventional’ farming methods are used.

Omega-6 Fatty Acids & Hormone Health

As mentioned, linoleic acid is essential for hormone health when consumed in very small amounts. However, when we exceed safe limits, the results aren’t pretty.

Diets high in omega-6 fatty acids can interfere with thyroid hormone utilisation, which has negative knock-on effects throughout our endocrine system.

Perhaps one of the most notable deleterious effects is that omega-6 fatty acids can slow down metabolic function, which is governed by thyroid health.

Our gut produces and regulates most of our hormones, so the fact that omega-6 fatty acids impair gut health, is another reason why linoleic acid can be so catastrophic for our hormonal / endocrine health.

But it doesn’t end there… Omega-6 is oestrogenic, so it can negatively impact our hormones via other mechanisms.

We are living in a world that swimming in fake oestrogens, aka xenoestrogens. These xenoestrogens, like our natural oestrogens, need progesterone to keep hormone levels in balance.

Women also need progesterone to make the stress hormone, cortisol. But, as we are living through a very stressful time in human history, women are becoming increasingly progesterone deficient, owing to the amounts of cortisol we are producing.

So, the last thing we need to do is elevate our oestrogen levels through our diet, thereby placing an even greater demand on our progesterone reserves.

The xenoestrogen problem is now so great that even men are deficient in progesterone in an effort to contend with the xenoestrogenic soup in our immediate environment.

One of the best ways of helping to support the body to make progesterone, in an effort to help balance the increasing levels of oestrogen, is for us to use Thyme Red Essential Oil.

Wild As The Wind also stocks an Organic Thyme Red Essential Oil.

Plus, Wild As The Wind now offer a proprietary essential oil blend, specifically formulated to provide hormone support. It is the latest essential oil blend to be released by Wild As The Wind and goes by the name of Harmony Essential Oil Blend.

More on xenoestrogens and Harmony Essential Oil Blend later…

As the body likes to store linoleic acid in our fat deposits, this is also an issue for us hormonally. Our fat deposits can produce oestrogen completely independently of our endocrine system.

This means that there are no checks and balances going on within our hormone system where our fat is concerned.

Obviously, this, and the other factors mentioned here, can lead to oestrogen levels, within our bodies, being really out of control. And, an excess of oestrogen leads to even lower energy levels, and even more weight loss resistance.

This means that, unless we break the cycle, we are seriously on a downward trajectory.

Oestrogen & Histamine & Low Progesterone

To make matters worse, there’s another imbalance within our bodies that is driving another major downward spiral…

Oestrogen increases histamine in our body. It links to our immune system via oestrogen receptors on our mast cells. (Mast cells are a critical part of our immune system. They release histamine, as part of an immune response.

When oestrogen binds to the oestrogen receptors on our mast cells, they release more histamine.

This is particularly critical in terms of hormone health as there is such a direct relationship going on between mast cells and our sexual organs and sex hormones. We have mast cells in our uterus.

So, the more oestrogen we have in our bodies, the more histamine is released. As so many of us are now estrogen dominant, these days, this means that a lot of us are producing too much histamine.

To make matters worse, whilst oestrogen can trigger histamine release, the sad reality is that histamine can also increase oestrogen production. This means that it all becomes a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Animal studies have shown that oestrogen may also slow down the production of diamine oxidase, (aka DAO), which is the enzyme that breaks down histamine in the gut. This effectively means that the viscious cycle of too much oestrogen leading to too much histamine, and vice versa, also means that we end up releasing more histamine than we can even break down by the body.

Too much histamine then goes on to produce too much oestrogen, again… ad infinitum… unless the cycle is broken…

But, because we are all deficient in progesterone, the problem is even further compounded. When we have sufficient levels of progesterone it can work to inhibit histamine release.

So, the more stressed we are, the lower our progesterone level will be, which necessarily correlates with elevated levels of histamine.

Excess histamine will translate into higher levels of stress in the body, further compounding the issue. It really is a nasty vicious cycle.

Breaking The Cycle

This is a big subject, but there are some very basic things that you can do to break the cycle…

• Increase gentle daily exercise – resistance training & walking etc…
• Practice reducing stress and managing our vagal response
• Improving our sleep
• Supplementing with pregnenolone
• Improving our gut health
• Improving our diet
• Supplementing with B vitamins
• Supplementing with magnesium
• Ensuring proper hydration
• Removing toxicity from our lives

Seed Oils & Vision Impairment

Macular degeneration levels, in the over 50’s, also corresponds to the increase in seed oil consumption. This is medically referred to as age related macular degeneration, or ARMD.

ARMD causes irreversible vision loss.

There were hardly any cases of diabetes, coronary heart disease or cancer before we started using seed oils as a staple. And, there were only 50 cases of recorded macular degeneration in the world, between 1850 and 1930, despite the fact the ability to test for it was discovered in 1850.

Sight tests, as you can imagine, weren’t so common in the 1850’s, but by the 1900’s they were almost universally available in the Western world. Nevertheless, sight tests were, of course, only affordable to those with the private means of paying for them.

However, vision impairment affected an individual’s ability to work. Consequently, sight tests were a medical expense that many were willing to undertake.

Plus, the introduction of the Welfare State in the UK, made sight tests affordable to all, and may account for some of the statistical increases in ARMD in the UK, after the second world war.

There are now 200 million cases of ARMD, worldwide.

Linoleic Acid & Heart Disease

There are very few records of anyone dying from heart disease before the 1900’s. This is an interesting fact, considering that everyone, who could afford it, ate plenty of saturated fat from animal sources, in the 19th century… and no seed oils.

Yet, these days we are told that it’s saturated fats that are the root cause of cardiac arrests. Something just doesn’t add up, does it?

Linoleic Acid & Synthetic Chemicals

Human intervention in natural processes has produced another deeply disturbing outcome: Linoleic acid and poisonous chemicals are truly deadly, in combination.

Both linoleic acid and poisonous chemicals are stored in the body, and bioaccumulate over time.

It’s a common misconception that the chemical sprays used in farming are not harmful… Truth be known, they are anything but harmless!

Plus, these agrochemicals are engineered to be impossible to remove from our food prior to human consumption.

Poisonous chemicals used in farming include all forms of herbicide, fungicide and pesticide, which are derived from the petrochemical industry.

Side note: if the “fossil” fuel industry is running out of oil, then how sustainable is petrochemical farming? (This is one rabbit hole that’s going to have to wait for another day… but, hopefully, the mere mention of it has inspired you to make further enquiries after you have read the rest of this article…?)

But, for now… back to deadly things that bioaccumulate in animals that we eat, and directly within us, when we breathe the air and eat contaminated vegetation… and animals…

A Little Backstory For You

The suffix ‘ICIDE’ means death, as in suicide and homicide.

When used in relation to herbs, fungi and “pests”, the suffix means deadly in relation to these things:

• Herbicide
• Fungicide
• Pesticide

Animals that are reared naturally will not be laden with toxic contaminants, such as glyphosate, and other forms of herbicide, fungicide and pesticide. (They will have some, however, as we are living in an increasingly toxic world. In reality, every year we allow large scale agriculture to drench a large part of our land in poison, the more difficult it is going to be to avoid being exposed to health-decimating levels of toxicants.)

Another aside: I recently watched the third series of the Clarkson Diddly Squat Farm programmes, where I witnessed Clarkson and Caleb discuss the general use of glyphosate, and the routine use of glyphosate spraying, just prior to the harvesting of wheat. This is a universal practice, as glyphosate spraying dries out the wheat, allowing framers to induce harvesting, rather than waiting for it to dry out naturally.

The argument for this, amid increasingly volatile weather conditions, [don’t get me started on the probable causes of the appalling weather we are having!], is that the weather is so disrupted that it can’t be trusted to allow the wheat to dry out naturally.

However, to wantonly deluge wheat with such deadly levels of a known carcinogenic agent, just before harvesting, will obviously optimise the glyphosate content of the harvested wheat!

Glyphosate is one of the most liberally used, bioaccumulated cancer-causing poisons in the UK today, and we are all playing our part. If you use Roundup in your gardens, you are contributing to your own demise. And, if you aren’t speaking out against it, the same is true…

It is in our interest to know as much as possible about the makers of glyphosate, Monsanto, whose other products include:

• Agent Orange: deployed with such devastating effect during the US and Vietnamese conflict.
• Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone: again achieving devastating results, except this time accidentally.
• Synthetic sweetener: Saccharin: According to Cancer Research UK “There is no convincing evidence that artificial sweeteners cause cancer.” How reassuring! Saccharin was, however, banned in the USA for nearly 30 years… “Banned in 1981, saccharin has long been considered carcinogenic because it produced bladder tumours in rats. Saccharin is now unbanned, with more than 100 countries worldwide legitimately allowing saccharin as a food sweetening additive…” Source: 20.12.2010 :: National Institute of Health [US] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3185898/#b1-conc-18-213

The list goes on to include some of the most appalling toxins ever produced. It is reported that DDT, (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane), despite being banned worldwide, can still be found in street dust on pavements throughout the UK. It was brought into the world by Monsanto.

In fact, DDT was developed as the first modern synthetic insecticide in the 1940s. So, Monsanto weren’t just ahead of the curve… they created it!

DDT was used in military and civilian populations, institutionally [schools and hospitals etc], and domestically, within homes and gardens, to combat malaria, typhus, and the other insect-borne human diseases. It was also used agriculturally for insect control in crop and livestock production.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture began regulatory actions in the late 1950s and 1960s to prohibit many of DDT’s uses due to mounting evidence revealing declining benefits coupled with increasing evidence of environmental and toxicological effects.

*The 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s book, Silent Spring, stimulated widespread public concern over the dangers of improper pesticide use and the need for better pesticide controls.

The EPA, Environmental Protection Agency [US], issued a DDT cancellation order, in 1972. It did so due to adverse environmental effects, for wildlife, and the potential risks to human health.

Human concerns were particularly focussed upon, especially the detrimental effects to human reproductive health, owing to animal studies highlighting this as a clear issue. Plus, the risk of cancer after some animals developed liver tumours, having being exposed to DDT in a research setting.

DDT is classified as a probable human carcinogen in the U.S. and other international authorities.

It is known to:

• Be very persistent in the environment
• ***Accumulate in fatty tissues
• Travel long distances in the upper atmosphere

Monsanto’s Products Continued…

• Refined caffeine
• DDT
• PCB’s
• Aspirin

If there were any need to say any more, then perhaps it would be to say this…

You can watch this jaw dropping feature length documentary for free… World According To Monsanto

Monsanto In Recent Years

Monsanto was acquired by Bayer in 2018.

Bayer was formerly known as IG Farben.

IG Farben, was a German chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate, formed in 1925 from a merger of six chemical companies including Agfa, BASF, and Bayer.

IG Farben provided the gas for Hitler’s concentration camps.

Isn’t it reassuring to know that Monsanto and Bayer have given up all of the above to concentrate on GMO food production?

No?

Ah, perhaps you have heard about the fact that, just prior to its acquisition by Bayer, Monsanto were responsible for paying out some of the most sizeable fines in human history on the basis that glyphosate has caused cancer…?

The Monsanto glyphosate product, Roundup, is still on shop shelves in every garden centre and supermarket in the UK. And, perhaps on the shelves in your utility room or garden shed?

CNN has reported that:

Over the years, the Germany-based company has paid out more than $10 billion in settlements to thousands of cancer patients and their estates who have sued Monsanto, claiming Roundup causes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and accusing the company of failing to adequately warn consumers of the risk.

What they don’t tell you is that, prior to its acquisition in 2018 by the German company Bayer, Monsanto was a Missouri based, American company for well over 100 years, since its inception, in 1901.

Bayer ordered to pay $2.25 billion after jury links Roundup to cancer: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/01/27/roundup-monsanto-bayer-cancer-claim

Monsanto ordered to pay $289m as jury rules weedkiller caused man’s cancer: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/10/monsanto-trial-cancer-dewayne-johnson-ruling

Did I digress!?

Oops, sorry…

But, just before I get back to the main story, there’s also these…

A Minute Selection Of Articles About Chemical Poisoning

More disturbing stories permitting us to build up the general picture that we are living in a toxic soup, and that detoxing should be a daily habit…

Nearly 40% of conventional baby food contains toxic pesticides, US study finds – The Guardian

Our Drinking Water Is Xenoestrogenic – National Institute of Health (Endocrine Disruptors in Water and Their Effects on the Reproductive System)

Our soft furnishings, and our beds are off-gassing toxins – Forbes (Here’s What You Need To Know About Toxic Furniture)

Dried spices can contain lead, arsenic, and cadmium – Consumer Reports

FDA Allows Ongoing Use of Toxic Chemicals that Leach into Food and Drinks – Food Safety News

Seafood Businesses Brace For A Sales Slump As Japan Plans to Discharge Radioactive Water – AP News

Weed Killer Pesticides in Oatmeal – Health Magazine

Another Toxin Found in Children’s Applesauce – The Messenger

Sorry, Your Paper Coffee Cup Is A Toxic Nightmare – ABC News

Heavy Metal Contamination – National Institute of Health (Heavy Metals Toxicity and the Environment)

A comprehensive analysis of published data indicates that heavy metals such as arsenic cadmium, chromium, lead, and mercury, occur naturally. However, anthropogenic activities [originating in human activity, i.e. pollution] contribute significantly to environmental contamination. These metals are systemic toxicants known to induce adverse health effects in humans, including cardiovascular diseases, developmental abnormalities, neurologic and neurobehavioral disorders, diabetes, hearing loss, hematologic and immunologic disorders, and various types of cancer. The main pathways of exposure include ingestion, inhalation, and dermal contact. The severity of adverse health effects is related to the type of heavy metal and its chemical form, and is also time and dose dependent… Several studies have shown that toxic metals exposure causes long term health problems in human populations. Although, acute and chronic effects are known for some metals, little is known about the health impact of mixtures of toxic elements. Recent reports have pointed out that these toxic elements may interfere metabolically with nutritionally essential metals such as iron, calcium, copper, and zinc. However, the literature is scarce regarding the combined toxicity of heavy metals. Simultaneous exposure to multiple heavy metals may produce a toxic effect that is either additive, antagonistic or synergistic. A recent review of a number of individual studies… reported that co-exposure to metal/metalloid mixtures of arsenic, lead and cadmium produced more severe effects at both relatively high dose and low dose levels in a biomarker-specific manner. These effects were found to be mediated by dose, duration of exposure and genetic factors. Also, human co-exposure to cadmium and inorganic arsenic resulted in a more pronounced renal damage than exposure to each of the elements alone. In many areas of metal pollution, chronic low dose exposure to multiple elements is a major public health concern.

Now back to the harms of linoleic acid in conjunction with these poisons…

Linoleic Acid & Poisonous Chemicals – A Human Curse

So, to quickly recap:

• Human intervention in natural processes has exposed us to the combined threat of linoleic acid and poisonous chemicals… a truly deadly combination.
• Both linoleic acid and poisonous chemicals are stored in the body, mianly in our fat, and bioaccumulate over time.

Not only that, but recent human intervention, and the alteration of traditional / natural farming methods, have led to an even greater problem…

Even some organically farmed livestock are unfit to eat these days.

This is because, organically farmed pork and chicken contain high levels of linoleic acid due to their feed, and, according to the research above, will also have trace amounts of poisonous synthesised chemicals. This is because of the inappropriate grain and seed based feeds we are giving these animals.

Only pigs and foul, that aren’t routinely fed cereals, seeds and grains, have a chance of developing naturally. Pigs and chickens that are allowed to grub for their food, and supplement with vegetation, will develop naturally.

Grain / cereal / seed feeding is ubiquitous within conventional and organic farming. And, grains and cereals are, of course, chock full of linoleic acid.

To make matters worse, whilst Europe previously had a moratorium on GMO (genetically modified) farming, which requires the use of the gut destroying, carcinogenic pesticides, produced by Monsanto / Bayer, the UK and Europe were still feeding their conventionally reared livestock and foul with GMO seeds and grains.

The bio-toxins in the pesticides, found in the GMO grain, also bioaccumulate in the body, again, mainly in the stored fat.

Bioaccumulation is a process by which chemicals are accumulated in an organism when the rate of intake exceeds the rate of excretion. Chemicals are introduced into the organism through exposure to the abiotic environment (soil, water, air) or as dietary intake (trophic transfer).

Diseases Associated With The Bioaccumulation Of Toxins

The incidence of chronic degenerative diseases, including cancer, heart disease, dementia, diabetes, and obesity, has risen to shocking levels, in recent times.

Inflammatory autoimmune disease rates, for things like diabetes, are now off the charts. Dementia and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, are also phenomenally widespread, having been, not so long ago, practically unheard of.

It is expected that one in two of us will die of cancer even though heart attacks are still our biggest killer.

But, did you know? These conditions were not an issue in pre-industrial times? Because, of course, linoleic acid consumption, and associated diseases, were nowhere to be seen in the early 1800’s.

How Fat Consumption Has Changed

In the 1800’s, our dietary fat intake was almost exclusively comprised of animal fats. In fact, 99% of the fat we consumed was from an animal source.

In the 2020’s we are now obtaining c. 90% of our dietary fat from seed oils.

The increase of linoleic acid consumption and the incidence of life-threatening conditions correlates over time. This means that the increase in heart disease and cancer corresponds, at equally increasing levels, with the increased consumption of linoleic acid.

Put another way, the increases in both are in lock-step with each other, over time.

Interestingly, the numbers do not correlate with sugar consumption, even though sugar is often cited as the reason for many life-threatening health conditions. (However, no-one in their right mind would consider refined sugar as anything other than a profoundly neurotoxic substance that should be avoided along with linoleic acid!)

Nevertheless, the reality is that linoleic acid, and PUFAs (polyunsaturated fatty acids), in general, cause advanced glycation end-products 23 times more than glucose does! These glycation end-products are effectively the bonding of glucose molecules to proteins, which damages the proteins, making them non-functional.

Mitigating Statistical Factors

The consumption of seed oils is not the only thing to have changed in the last 150 years. This period has been one of the most dramatic in terms of change, in human history. Other major changes can, and are, negatively impacting our health. A few of these are listed below…

Electricity

The early 1900’s saw the introduction and subsequent widespread use of electricity.

‘Dirty electricity’ is known to cause adverse systemic effects in all living creatures.

Wireless Tech

Radio waves have also shown to be cancerous, with many of the first users of radio equipment, dying from cancer.

Wireless technologies, or WiFi technologies, are also known to be highly systemically disruptive, and are being implicated in deaths caused by cancer.

Agrochemicals

Industrial farming methods and the introduction of chemical fertilisers and pesticides.

Industrialisation

Industrialisation, in general, has delivered a multitude of health concerns to our shores…

The burning of coal, has released all manner of toxins into the air, land and sea.

Nuclear disasters have done the same.

Toxic Burden

We are now facing a toxic burden never faced by any other generation in the history of mankind. There are things we can do on a daily basis to mitigate this toxicity and keep our detox pathways working well.

However, this article is already long, so I won’t go into too much detail here. Please read on to read the basics of detoxification…

Linoleic Acid Sharp Focus

Linoleic acid is profoundly inflammatory, and interferes with systemic functioning. Inflammation is present in all autoimmune conditions, including diabetes, and inflammatory skin conditions, like acne, psoriasis, eczema and rosacea etc.

Inflammation causes fatigue and brain fog.

However, aside from this considerable drawbacks of LA, it’s the oxidative stress it causes that is likely the reason it makes us so ill.

Not only does omega-6 cause oxidative stress. Oils that are high in linoleic acid are very prone to oxidation.

Omega-6 is a polyunsaturated fatty acid, which means that it is inherently unstable. It oxidizes, which effectively means that it simply breaks down more readily than most other fats. It is prone to oxidation from the get go… during manufacturing, in storage, when being transported, and during cooking processes. And, of course, in your body, after you have eaten it…

Excessive omega-6 fatty acids trigger oxidative stress in our muscle cells by producing volatile aldehydes.

These highly reactive, toxic aldehydes are cytotoxic, which means that they can kill cells. They are also mutagenic, which means they can cause mutations in our DNA.

They are also:

• Atherogenic – causes heart disease
• Genotoxic – again damaging to DNA
• Carcinogenic – causes cancer
• Obesogenic – causes weight gain
• Diabetogenic – causes autoimmunity

Please refer to Glossary Of Terms for more information.

Cell Calcification

LA permits the calcification of our cells, increasing superoxide and nitric oxide levels. These constituents combine very readily to create a dangerous, free nitrogen species called peroxynitrate, which goes on to cause large amounts of tissue damage.

Interestingly, the calcification of the cells is also a consequence of wireless technology exposure.

According to Dr. Martin Pall, of Washington State University, a leading expert in wireless technology research, our voltage gated cells are compromised when we are exposed to wireless technologies, and, in his opinion, this leads to autism amongst the most vulnerable children within society. [Those on poor diets, who rarely exercise and get fresh air, who are born of women who had a poor diet, and exercised insufficiently etc, etc…]

Why Linoleic Acid Is So Dangerous

Linoleic acid molecules have two double bonds, making them ideal candidates for causing damaging trans fats. Because of these double bonds, the oils containing linoleic acid are known as polyunsaturated fatty acids, or PUFAs.

Trans fats can only be formed by fats containing at least one double bond. As LA has two double bonds, this doubles the risk of it forming trans fats.

Trans fats occur when polyunsaturated fats, with their double bonds, are exposed to heat.

Trans fats damage cells and clog arteries increasing the risk of heart attacks and deaths.

Industrially produced trans fat can be found in margarine, vegetable shortening, Vanaspati ghee, fried foods, and baked goods such as crackers, biscuits, cakes and pies, etc…

LA is not readily burned as fuel by the body, and is, instead, much more likely stored. Most of the LA we consume goes to the cell membranes. (Our cell membranes are made up of a lipid (fat) barrier.)

Our bodies, conversely, prefer to use saturated fats and mono-saturated fats as fuel.

Saturated fats, despite being vilified for causing heart disease etc, cannot cause trans fats.

However, the vilification of saturated fat was one of the methods used to induce us into using more seed oils, which are cheaper to produce and are more profitable for the manufacturer.

Linoleic Acid & Our Mitochondria

Low energy levels are an indicator of our body being overwhelmed by linoleic acid, here’s why…

Our mitochondria are the parts of our cells which produce about 85% of the energy within our bodies.

LA causes a syndrome called reductive stress in our mitochondria. Reductive stress is the precursor to oxidative stress.

Reductive stress does serious damage to our mitochondria, considerably impairing energy output. Sometimes the damage is so extensive that it causes some of our mitochondria to die prematurely.

This is why elevated fatigue levels can be an indicator of reductive stress and oxidative stress. Excessive fatigue is also a symptom of elevated oestrogen levels, as excessive oestrogen is also a block to efficient energy production within the mitochondria.

Wireless tech exposure also acts as a block to producing sufficient energy…

A compromised liver will also cause chronic fatigue.

Sources Of Linoleic Acid

Seed oils contain the highest concentrations of linoleic acid than any other food, by a vast margin.

The linoleic acid contained in the following oils often constitutes 70%, or more, of the fat content:

• Safflower Oil
• Evening Primrose Oil
• Grapeseed Oil
• Cacay Oil

Linoleic Acid RDA

The official RDA for linoleic acid consumption is 2% of our diet. However, even at 2%, this level of consumption is still likely too high.

Nevertheless, as some seed oils exceed 70% linoleic acid content, it’s not hard to see how easy it is for us to consume way more than this on a daily basis.

If we are eating any form of processed food in our diets we are definitely consuming more than what is safe on a daily basis.

*Linoleic acid, in the right quantities, helps to support hormonal health and other systemic functions. Evening Primrose Oil, which is very high in linoleic acid, is often used as a supplement to improve hormonal health.

But, as we know, in excess, linoleic acid wreaks havoc at a systemic level. So, whilst the use of Evening Primrose Oil in the 1800’s might have been beneficial, the same is not true of today.

Oenothera Biennis Oil [Evening Primrose Oil] contains two types of omega-6-fatty acid including linoleic acid (60%–80%) and γ-linoleic acid (8%–14%). This means that the linoleic acid content of Evening Primrose Oil can be as high as 94%.

Linoleic Acid Cancer Risk?

Linoleic acid is oestrogenic, hence its traditional use as a hormone supplement. However, the incidence of oestrogenic cancers are consistently on the rise, so the stated concerns around supplementing with Evening Primrose Oil are especially true, where oestrogenic cancers are concerned.

Plus, we now live in a world that is heavily contaminated by synthetic oestrogenic compounds, known as xenoestrogens. Everything from plastics in the food chain, to the chlorine in our water, our till receipts, and synthetic materials in our soft furnishings, etc, are all xenoestrogenic.

An article about the xenoestrogens in our water, referred to earlier on in this article, explains that beyond the chlorine, we also have pharmaceutically manufactured synthetic oestrogen in our water. This is because so many women are taking the birth control pill. Sadly, the synthetic hormones in birth control pills are not broken down by the body, and are excreted out into our water supply.

The same is true of antibiotics, and a number of other drugs.

One of the main ways many of us are being exposed to xenoestrogens is through personal care products. This fact is one of the key reason why Wild As The Wind was brought into being… that, and the amount of ‘greenwashing’ that was, and is still, going on…

Greenwashing, as you can imagine, is all about trying to convince us something is good for us, when the complete opposite is true!

Many of the xenoestrogens in our bodies are also derived from plastics. Nanoplastics and microplastics now contaminate all food and water, and can be found in our bloodstream and our vital organs.

Both men and women are developing oestrogen dominance, the typical markers for which are increased belly and breast fat.

It’s interesting that Stephen R Gundry, a world-renowned cardiologist, and author of the Plant Paradox, identified seed consumption as the culprit for ultimate weight loss resistance.

Gundry has worked with Hollywood stars, who had been cast in roles that required them to be ultra-lean. He was taken on to help shift their final 6% of excess stored fat, when all other dietary measures failed. The actors only achieved their weight loss goals by eliminating seeds from their diet.

Gundry identifies lectins, such as gluten, as the culprit for this final stage weight loss resistance, but new insights about the deleterious effects of linoleic acid, are possibly the real cause…?

Seeds, and seed oils, are almost all concentrated sources of linoleic acid. The same is true of nuts.

Linoleic Acid Dietary Needs

The body doesn’t produce linoleic acid. We obtain it from our food.

And, because linoleic acid is in practically every food on the planet, we will never suffer from a dietary lack.

We should certainly not, under any circumstances, be supplementing with additional omeg-6.

No Amount Of PUFAs Are Good

This article is about omega-6 fatty acids as these are the most prevalent in our diets.

However, oeilic acid (omega-9) and fish oils (omega-3) are just as bad, if not worse for us…

Omega-3 fatty acids are also PUFAs, and have even more double bonds than LA. And, the double bonds in omega-3 can just as easily be damaged as omega-6. Thus, an excess of omega-3 fatty acids is as equally dangerous as an excess of LA, if not more so.

So, the advice that omega-3 can mitigate an excess of omeg-6 fatty acids in the body is a complete fallacy.

Omega-3 fish oils mainly have three double bonds when compared to the two double bonds of linoleic acid. However, fish oils can also have four, five or six double bonds depending on which fatty acid they contain.

The more double bonds there are, the more trouble you’re in if you consume them.

DHA and EPA are the two omega-3 fatty acid compounds, which are found in fish. EPA has five double bonds, and DHA has six double bonds.

Eating fish occasionally is probably okay, as long as you consume the right amount of vitamin E to mitigate any risks. Please read on to find out why…

How Do You Know LA Is An Issue For You?

One of the easiest ways of figuring out if you have metabolic disorder is by measuring your body temperature. If you have a low body temperature this is a sure sign of lowered metabolic rate. If the reduced body temperature is consistent, and not a passing issue, this, in turn, would suggest you are suffering from metabolic disorder.

If you have a metabolic disorder, the chances are that you have linoleic acid issues.

If your lower body temperature and metabolic disorder are coupled with low energy and hormone issues, then sadly, you are likely suffering from the perfect storm of:

Excess omega-6 + excess oestrogen + excessive wireless exposure + excessive toxic burden.

A Quick Word On Detoxification

This article clearly states how to resolve excess linoleic acid over time, but it does not explain, in such detail, how to resolve the other issues mentioned here.

However, overcoming excessive linoleic acid will take you a long way towards restoring your metabolic health, and simple things like reducing exposure to wireless technology and getting enough exercise, will seriously help you to improve your hormone health and reduce excess weight.

Excess oestrogen is found in our fat deposits. We also store toxins in our fat. Reducing our toxic exposures reduces the need for stored fat!

Sweating is a great way to detoxify toxic stores in our adipose fat. Sweating can occur during exercise, but, taking regular saunas to promote sweating, is probably the most efficient way to release stored toxins in our fat.

Our liver is our major detox organ. Keeping our liver functioning well is critical for our health. But, as mentioned earlier, as many as 50% of us are suffering from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. This is partly due to a diet rich in PUFAs, but it is also due to our sedentary lifestyles and our exposure to wireless tech and blue light, etc.

Reducing time at our computers, and turning off our routers is one of the best things we can do for our liver health!

Replacing the time we used to spend exposing ourselves to ageing blue light (via all devices with a screen, including TVs), with time spent walking, running, cycling, or even sitting in nature, would make a huge difference to our health.

Elevating progesterone production to mitigate excess oestrogen and xenoestrogens is the best thing you can do where this is concerned.

One of the best and easiest ways of doing this is with Organic Thyme Red Essential Oil

If your hormone issues are more complex, then perhaps you should consider Harmony Essential Oil Blend?

Also limiting exposure to oestrogen and xenoestrogens is also key.

Filter your water with something better than a water jug, and remineralise your thoroughly filtered water, afterwards.

[I have a whole house water filtration system and a Berkey filter for my drinking water. I use Celtic sea salt to remineralise my water, alternating it with dehydrated tender coconut water and organic lemon juice.]

Never forget, we absorb a lot of toxins, very quickly, through our skin!

A 10 minute shower is equivalent to drinking four glasses of unfiltered, chlorinated tap water.

Replace xenoestrogenic skincare and personal care products with genuinely natural skincare products. Beginning with replacing face creams with Facial Oil No. 2 and Facial Oil No. 8 would be a great start.

Then, replacing your carcinogenic sun creams with sun protective carrier oils and sun protective essential oils, would be an excellent second step…

Drinking mineralised water, especially if we also include binders, is an excellent way of detoxifying our liver.

Binders neutralise toxins by binding to them. There are different sorts of binders, but some of the best are provided directly from mother nature… fruit pectins and clays, etc…

Using detoxification clays topically can help draw toxins from our body, whilst also delivering vital minerals to our tissue.

Overcoming Omega-6 Excess

If you have been eating a typical Western diet, with a fair amount of processed food, then eliminating seed oils from your diet would be a very good thing. This is especially true if you are in poor general health.

And, for the sake of our mitochondrial health, and our energy levels, it is imperative for us all to lower our LA consumption, dramatically.

However, if you are suffering from flagging energy levels, don’t expect miracles overnight!

Nevertheless, the good news where your energy levels are concerned, is that you will see an improvement in stamina in a matter of weeks, but you will have to wait far longer for your omega-6 levels to return to normal…

The latest research shows that it will take about three years for our LA levels, in our tissues, to return to healthy levels.

However, a dramatic decrease in LA consumption will have a marked improvement on energy levels within as little as a month for some people. Most people can expect to see their energy levels improve in as little as 6 to 8 weeks, with progressive improvements over longer time scales.

Practical steps for improving linoleic acid levels include the following:

• Using saturated fats for cooking
• Eliminating or seriously reducing nut consumption
• Obtaining protein from beef, lamb and properly produced dairy*
• Avoid pork & chicken
• Avoid dairy alternatives
• Reduce restaurant meals, or better still, cut them out completely… all restaurants use seed oils as they are a lot cheaper than healthy fats from animal sources.
• Minimise packaged foods

*Raw dairy is, without question, the best form. Use A2 unhomogenised and unpasteurised milk wherever possible.

Also only eat cheeses with a natural rennet. The artificial rennet is synthesised using GMO components. It is predominantly produced by Pfizer. Plus, lab-produced rennet alters the nutritional profile of cheese.

For more information about healthy fats, and dangerous fats, please refer to: Healthy Fats & Oils – for dietary uses & skincare.

LA Reduction Warning

Please read Supplementing With Vitamin E Whilst Detoxifying LA, below, before cutting omega-6 fatty acid from your diet.

Detoxing Omega-6

The way to reduce omega-6 levels in your body over time, is by eliminating the following things from your diet from day one:

• Seed oils
• Processed food – which is loaded with seed oils as it is a lot cheaper than good fats from animal sources
• Chicken and / or mono-gastric animals – Foul are fed on grains & can’t convert double-bonded oils. The same is tru of us.
• Pork – fed on grains rich in linoleic acid.
• Nuts – apart from perhaps the occasional macadamia.
• Plant milks
• Eggs – a typical egg has 750mg of LA

We need to limit omega-6 intake to 2% or lower, daily. This equates to a maximum of 5g of LA per day.

This realistically means cutting out going out to eat. Restaurants, fast food take-aways and pubs all use seed oils to prepare food, as this is, by far, the cheapest form of fat available.

Problems With Fruit Oils

Fruit oils like Avocado Oil and Olive Oil have much lesser amounts of linoleic acid, and are safer in smaller amounts. However, oils like Olive Oil are expensive to produce, which has led to widespread adulteration. It is rare to find an olive oil that isn’t largely cut with cheaper oils, like Sunflower Oil.

Sunflower Oil is loaded with linoleic acid – usually in excess of 70%.

Bertolli are one of the producers of Olive Oil which have been found to adulterate their Olive Oil. Most supermarket shelves in the UK are heavily populated with Bertolli Olive Oil.

Nestlé and Unilever are two other major vendors of “Olive Oil”, but tend to brand their products with differing product names to obfuscate the source. This is because the Nestlé and Unilever brands are plagued with reputational issues, having been the source of many scandals over the years.

For example, Nestlé have been the subject of many international boycotts for things like their baby food scandal in the late 1970’s, and their water bottling activities, which persist to the present day…

The Telegraph Newspaper ran an article on the 4^th April, 2024 entitled: “Spring water for Nestle drink brands may be unsafe, say French authorities”.

The tag line read: Swiss food giant warned of risk of faecal matter contaminants, E. coli and ‘pollutants’ after illegal purification treatment scandal emerges…

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/04/spring-water-nestle-brands-unsafe-pollutants-france

But, Nestlé have been enmeshed in many bottled water scandals for years now. And, if a company can’t be trusted with a naturally occurring substance, then would you trust them with actually producing a complex food product? Especially one for your infant!?!?

Unilever are accused of failures in corporate social responsibility towards workers, and the “greenwashing” of its products. These actions clearly show a greater concern for profit than for people.

Some of the negative press is, however, unwarranted, which I wrote about in this article in 2023: Unilever named ‘international sponsor of war’ by Ukrainian government…

Replacing Seed Oils In Your Diet

Butter, and especially ghee, are the best oils to cook with as they are very high in saturated fat. They also have really high smoke points.

It’s important to ensure that your ghee and butter are from a grass fed source, and organic, preferably A2.

Another distinct benefit of eating fats from animal sources is that butter and ghee also contain the spectrum of all-important fat soluble vitamins. This is also true of tallow, beef fat.

Coconut is also very high in saturated fat, and has a high smoke point, but is missing all of the fat soluble vitamins found in ghee and butter, etc.

Supplementing With Vitamin E Whilst Detoxifying LA

Taking vitamin E, whilst you lower the tissue levels of LA, is also vitally important. This is because vitamin E supplementation can help minimise the creation of toxic aldehydes whilst you still have high levels of LA in your system.

If we don’t mitigate the oxidative damage caused by these toxic aldehydes, as we detoxify excessive omega-6 from our cells, we run a very high risk of developing a seriously life threatening disease. This is because the oxidative damage that these toxic aldehydes can cause can be catastrophic.

Simply explained, LA and oestrogen cause lipolysis, the liberation of fatty acids from fat cells into the blood stream. This increases the burning of fats in the mitochondria which causes oxidation.

We want to be burning glucose in our mitochondria not fatty acids.

Vitamin E restricts lipolysis, and also directly inhibits the enzyme aromatase, which converts male hormones, like DHEA and testosterone into oestrogen.

It also serves as an oestrogen antagonist, binding to the oestrogen receptor sites, preventing oestrogen from entering the receptors, thereby dramatically lowering the damage from excess oestrogen.

There are parallels between vitamin E and Tamoxifen, used to treat oestrogen cancers.

Vitamin E Overview

Vitamin E is also referred to as tocopherol.

As with all things, the quality of vitamin E supplements can vary dramatically. It’s important to select a good quality vitamin E supplement, and avoid the synthetic versions, which often originate from China..

Tocopherol can prevent most of the damage done by LA. However, it delivers many other benefits…

Tocopherol is a fertility factor that is used to reduce oestrogen dominance / excess oestrogen. It can also prevent or reverse most of the damage done by oestrogen.

Excess oestrogen is an anti fertility factor in both women and men.

When you eat excess LA you increase the body’s production of oestrogen.

Vitamin E can prevent the calcification of the cells, thereby preventing superoxide and nitric oxide levels from rising. These constituents combine very readily to create a dangerous, free nitrogen species called peroxynitrate, which goes on to cause pervasive tissue damage.

Vitamin E Quality

Most vitamin E supplements are synthetic, making it different to the vitamin E we get from our food.

It is important to supplement with natural tocopherol, so it’s important to check the label on the vitamin E bottle, prior to purchase.

Synthetic vitamin E is called alpha-tocopherol acetate. If the label says ‘acetate’, then the vitamin E inside is synthetic.

Optical isomers are also important determinants of whether a supplement is natural or synthetic.

Most foods and supplements have an orientation. They are either right or left-handed. Typically, most biological foods and supplements are right-handed.

If both isomers (left-handed and right-handed) are present, this is called racemic.

Left-handed and right-handed isomers are also known as D and L, standing for right and left.

Typically there’s only one optical isomer that works well biologically, and in biological vitamin E it’s the D isomer. The L isomer is actually useless.

Synthetic vitamin E supplements usually contain 50% of the useless L isomer, along with the D isomer. Plus, synthetic vitamin E is made from the ester version of vitamin E which only has about 50% of the activity of the natural product.

Thus, the total activity of Synthetic vitamin E supplements is reduced by 75%. In addition, the non-active isomers and other ingredients may potentially be doing us harm, that could negate any of the benefits provided, and leave us worse off.

*In my estimations, our bodies cannot cope with most synthetic substances and chemicals.

Vitamin E Dose

Although contradicted by the information presented in the British Journal of Nutrition (below), Pubmed features a peer reviewed study which states:

Relationship between vitamin E requirement and polyunsaturated fatty acid intake in man: a review: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10804454/

An intake of 0.6 mg alpha-tocopherol equivalents per gram linoleic acid is generally seen as adequate for human adults. The minimum vitamin E requirement at consumption of fatty acids with a higher degree of unsaturation can be calculated by a formula, which takes into account the peroxidizability of unsaturated fatty acids and is based on the results of animal experiments. There are, however, no clear data on the vitamin E requirement of humans consuming the more unsaturated fatty acids

However, according to The British Journal of Nutrition published on the NIH website, courtesy of Cambridge University Press: Vitamin E function and requirements in relation to PUFA states that we need 1 unit (100mg) of vitamin E to every 2g of LA.

However, the safe limit of supplemental vitamin E is considered to be 1,000mg for adults.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4594047

It is imperative to consult your healthcare advisor prior to supplementing with vitamin E if you are on blood thinning drugs.

2023 study – Ability of high fat diet to induce liver pathology correlates with the level of linoleic acid and Vitamin E in the diet

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10237441

The dosage advised by the British Journal For Health showed that the prescribed dosage works in rats to prevent non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, (NAFLD).

Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

[Polyunsaturated fatty acids] PUFAs are distinct in their biological activity from monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) and saturated fatty acids (SFA). PUFAs are susceptible to non-enzymatic chemical oxidation (lipid peroxidation), whereas MUFA and SFA are not. They can also undergo enzymatic conversion into a variety of pro-inflammatory mediators including prostaglandins and leukotrienes. Peroxided lipids are implicated in human diseases, including fatty liver diseases, while vitamin E (VIT-E) has been shown to protect against non-enzymatic lipid peroxidation. High LA intakes correlate with increased concentrations of peroxided bioactive metabolites, while reducing LA can decrease them.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10237441

It’s estimated that 25% of the world has Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, (NAFLD). This is a very conservative estimate, and is likely closer to 50%.

The liver is the largest store of glycogen that can be shuttled to the blood. If the liver is compromised, it will not be able to store as much glucose in the form of glycogen. This means that the body will need to raise cortisol levels far more frequently to compensate. It will also need to create glucose from protein… (Sugar stored in the muscle is only available to the muscle, so muscle-bound glucose can’t help.)

It is easy to see how a dysfunctional liver contributes to metabolic syndrome, i.e. systemic dysfunction and digestive dysregulation.

Metabolic syndrome is effectively a cluster of conditions that occur simultaneously, that increase our risk of stroke and heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and other autoimmune conditions. Chronic metabolic syndrome can result in Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, and even death.

When the liver is compromised we suffer from fatigue. We are also unable to detoxify properly.

The liver is responsible for many functions within the body, including the disposal of used hormones, like oestrogen.

A poor functioning liver, therefore, simply compounds our worsening health, if we don’t do anything to resolve our issues.

Maintenance Dose Of Tocopherol

We only need to take vitamin E a few times a month, once LA levels are under control, or 10mg of vitamin E a day, once we’re eating 5g, or less, of LA daily, after levels are normalised.

Being fat soluble, vitamin E stays in the body / fat tissues for some time, so 100mg would last about ten days.

Other Factors Inhibiting The Production Of Cellular Energy

Much has been made of the ability of linoleic acid to inhibit the production of cellular energy via the mitochondria.

In addition, oestrogen and xenoestrogens, along with wireless technologies and our overall toxic burden, from environmental toxicity, have also had a serviceable mention, in the context of how all of these things make us, on the face of it, tired, obese and miserable. But, what is truthfully happening is that these things are also shortening our lives, and destroying the quality of the life we have left.

But, there is one class of toxins that hasn’t been mentioned… endotoxins…

Endotoxins are produced by bacteria. More specifically, they come from the lipid (oily) membrane which makes up the outer layer of the bacteria.

Bacterial endotoxins are lipopolysaccharides (LPS) derived from the outer membranes of gram-negative bacteria.

Endotoxin is widely present in the environment, including dust, animal waste, foods, and other materials generated from, or exposed to, Gram-negative bacterial products.

Endotoxin can be inactivated when exposed at temperature of 250º C for more than 30 minutes or 180º C for more than 3 hours.

Disinfection, with conventional disinfectants, is notoriously ineffectual, and UV disinfection is also largely ineffective. However, there are a good number of essential oils that can kill endotoxins, including Oregano Essential Oil. One of the best combinations of aromatherapy oils for killing endotoxins is Thieves Oil 2020 and Thieves 2022 Essentia Oil.

*Wild As The Wind also offer an Organic Oregano Essential Oil and a Wildcrafted Organic Oregano Essential Oil.

Why Do These Things Prevent Us From Creating Cellular Energy?

All of the above things prevent us from making cellular energy because they all do one thing…

They all increase intracellular calcium which, in turn increases superoxide, which is an important oxidative signalling molecule, and nitric oxide. When these two constituents are formed at higher concentrations they instantaneously combine to form a reactive nitrogen species called peroxynitrite.

This peroxynitrite oxidant, produced by the reaction between nitric oxide (NO) and superoxide radicals (O2 − ) is known to produce oxidative stress by virtue of LPO, methionine, and sulfhydryl group oxidation in proteins, antioxidant depletion, and DNA damage.

Peroxynitrite has a very long half-life relative to hydroxyl radical, •HO, which is the neutral form of the hydroxide ion (HO–). Hydroxyl radicals are highly reactive and consequently short-lived.

Peroxynitrite, being a lot more tenacious, is able to travel everywhere in the body, making it very pernicious. It is probably one of the most pernicious free radicals in our bodies.

Calcium should not be inside our cells! It should always remain outside. But, in different ways, endotoxins, oestrogens, wireless tech and PUFAs all cause the calcification of our cells, along with all of the ensuing catastrophic events.

Nevertheless, there’s a very simple antidote for peroxynitrite that neutralises it, stopping the ensuing damage. And this magical antidote is what?

Carbon dioxide!

Yes, the very same substance that the world is now waging war on, with it’s net zero objectives!

Nutritional Deficiency

Of course, nutrient deficiency will also prevent us from producing enough cellular energy. We need sufficient fuel to keep us going.

Restrictive diets, and calorie counting are the opposite of what we need. What we need to do now is move towards metabolic health by following the advice provided in this article, and restore our gut health.

Gut health is reliant on diverse microbial communities and a largely anaerobic environment, with very little oxygen.

Short-term supplementation with probiotics, with as many diverse strains as possible, and supporting our microbiota with good amounts of prebiotics in our diets is vital.

Supplementing with berberine is also helpful.

Work Less Play More

We need to concentrate on the quality of our lives and feed ourselves the experiences that nourish our souls.

Too many of us are working far too hard, and completely missing pout on life… I know i have for the last seven years. And, I know that really has to change!

In writing this article I have missed a party being held on Saturday night, by one of my longest-standing friends, in a beautiful setting. I also forgot that I had paid £25.00 for a ticket to a live gig on the Sunday.

Please read You Need To Get Involved, below, for my solution to these problems, so they don’t happen any more…

Harmony Essential Oil Blend

Another quick word on Harmony Essential Oil Blend. Not only does the aromatherapy blend help to increase progesterone production, due to the Organic Thyme Red Essential Oil content, it also helps to regulate other hormones.

The Organic Peppermint Essential Oil content of the blend, helps to reduce excess testosterone, and the Organic Clary Sage Essential Oil content, exerts a comprehensive hormone balancing effect.

More Concerns About PUFAs

Diets high in linoleic acid, from PUFAs, during pregnancy, may affect foetal neurodevelopment as a consequence of the increased production of eicosanoids. Eicosanoids are inflammatory molecules. Inflammation causes many debilitating conditions within the body. It also causes pain.

Similar studies have linked the high-level consumption of omega-6 fatty acids during pregnancy to increased risks of ADHD, and to other cognitive impairments in children.

This groundbreaking study reveals the link between polyunsaturated fatty acid metabolites in umbilical cord fluid and the severity of autism in children. More specifically, the study found that high levels of diHETrE, a metabolite of arachidonic acid, a derivative of linoleic acid, in the umbilical blood supply, significantly impacted autism spectrum disorder symptom severity.

Arachidonic acid‐derived dihydroxy fatty acids in neonatal cord blood relate symptoms of autism spectrum disorders and social adaptive functioning: Hamamatsu Birth Cohort for Mothers and Children (HBC Study)source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39041066/

Addendum

This addendum contains important information and access to additional resources.

The Pickle We Are In

Sadly, Western Medicine is focussed on managing symptoms rather than researching and delivering cures. It is a very profitable model when you exclusively consider the money this approach generates for pharmaceutical executives. But, it is a very costly model for the millions of recipients.

Most US citizens go bankrupt when faced with a serious medical emergency, regardless of how well insured they are with their medical insurance policies.

There are no quick fixes. This is especially true because attempts at quick fixes come with long-term consequences.

And, there certainly isn’t a pill for every ill!

For example, having a steroid shot to get rid of your pain today will depreciate your skeletal structure, weakening your bones and likely causing fractures later on in life, after a fall etc.

Please note: It is understood that prescription medicine, taken as prescribed, is the third biggest killer worldwide. This is because almost all ‘modern medicines’ are toxic, and have side effects. We end up taking other drugs to off-set the side effects of the initial drugs we are taking, and then we take more drugs to off-set the side effects of the second round of drugs we are taking… and so on, and so forth…

As almost all ‘modern medicines’ are toxic, we bioaccumulate the toxins until eventually our bodies crumple under the toxic load, leaving us dangerously ill without a medical system that can help.

The Current Medical System Is Not Likely To Heal Us

Western medicine is brilliant if you break a bone. And, hopefully, you won’t get addicted to opioid pain killers that have eviscerated so many American communities where opioid addiction rates have caused cataclysmic outcomes.

So, what’s the alternative?

Well, sadly, it’s often not alternative medicine. Tragically, a lot of alternative medicinal interventions are the mirror image of the mistakes being make by allopathic (modern) medicine.

This is because alternative medicine is also, by and large, attempting to mitigate the symptoms rather than treating the cause.

Now, more than ever, we have to become our own doctors. It is time to learn how our bodies work, and discover the natural ways in which we keep maintain our health.

Let’s face it… prevention is better than a cure!

Plus, we need to start actively sharing our discoveries of the natural protocols that work. We all need to contribute instead of expecting someone else to do the heavy lifting.

You Need To Get Involved

I am not trained in any of the subjects that I write about. I am no more qualified to write this article than you are. The difference is that I have dedicatedly spent several months doing a massive deep dive into the subject, and have likely devoted up to 200 hours of my life to the task.

I will then also spend another hour constructing an email mailout, pleading with you to read what I have written, even though I am handing the information to you on a silver platter, in an immensely condensed form, when there would be no other way of you easily finding any of the life-saving information provided, even after a couple of years of scouring the internet.

This was my motivation for starting to produce this information for you. The fact that it was so, so hard to find.

However, I am not getting any younger, and I have forsaken too many days on the beach whilst others have been splashing around in the waves… I have dedicated myself to poducing books-worth of free-to-access natural health information for seven years. But, uncoincidentally, the number seven is the number for change…

So, please accept my apologies, but this is the last major natural health article I intend to write.

Nevertheless, I have the sincerest hope in my heart that you will pick up where I have left off, and start sharing your natural health insights with each other… and me!

Purpose Of This Content

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DDT – A Brief History and Status: https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/ddt-brief-history-and-status

Medical Bankruptcy: Still Common Despite the Affordable Care Act: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6366487/