Soybean oil affects hypothalamus, causes genetic changes in mice: study (2020)

Re:Soybean oil affects hypothalamus, causes genetic changes ... by telchior on Thursday February 24, 2022 @05:41PM (#30461353)

Huh, I did actually miss that. Thanks for pointing it out. Linoleic acid isn't fully accepted as being healthy, so it was an easy assumption for me to make.

My understanding of linoleic acid is that it got a ton of good press as a result of the blowback from the discovery that we were basically poisoning ourselves with trans fats. So it wasn't really that we know PUFAs / linoleic acid are good, it's just that we know they're an existing alternative to something very bad.

Example random study link that points out some of the unknowns around linoleic acid: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5492028/

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Re:Soybean oil affects hypothalamus, causes genetic changes ... by bduerst on Friday February 25, 2022 @12:15PM (#30469546)

There's a difference between a dietary supplement being overhyped, and it actively causing harm.

Unknowns != Linolenic acid is harmful; and from this study it's at least obvious that it doesn't change genetic expression in the thalamus.

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