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Before the boom in processed foods most people ate sufficient pristine, vibrant, polyunsaturated essential fatty acids (linoleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid) to meet most of the body's needs. This is no longer so, and our health is almost certainly suffering. It is important to restore good levels of the two essential fatty acids into our daily diet.
The body uses various mixes of linoleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid for many purposes. They are, for instance, the body's fats of choice for the maintenance of the membranes of (i) the body's ~37 trillion cells, and (ii) the (sometimes thousands of) energy-producing organelles called mitochondria inside every cell. A key function of the cell membrane is cell oxygenation, which it does by facilitating the diffusion of oxygen from the bloodstream into the interior of the cell. A key function of the mitochondrial membrane is mitochondrial oxygenation, which it does by facilitating the diffusion of oxygen from the overall interior of the cell into the interior of the mitochondrion, where it is needed to fuel the mitochondrion's production of the energy (largely adenosine triphosphate (ATP) in a healthy cell) needed for the cell's many functions.
If, and only if, the body cannot find sufficient vibrant linoleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid will it it use other, less effective fats ...
  • firstly, less pristine, less vibrant linoleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid
  • then, derivative fatty acids
  • then, the toxic synthetic trans fatty acids (transfats) and homogenised fats
... to make the cell and mitochondrial membranes. These inferior fats will also oxygenate the cells and mitochondria, but less efficiently than pristine, vibrant essential fatty acids (linoleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid).
The good news ...
The good news is that, as we diligently return our body to an abundance of linoleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid (by consuming lots of raw nuts, seeds, oils or, perhaps, a dietary supplement containing raw, cold-pressed oils of these nuts and seeds) the body:
  • returns to its two beloved, more-effective, essential fatty acids for membrane maintenance - linoleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid
  • stops using the less-effective fats - the damaged EFAs, the 'derivative' fatty acids, the trans fatty acids and the hydrogenised fats
Membranes are repaired with the most oxygenating materials.

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