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Dr. Chris Knobbe - 'Diseases of Civilization: Are Seed Oil Excesses the Unifying Mechanism?'

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NutritionHeart and metabolismFats and oilsHeart diseaseDiabetes and insulin resistance

Chris Knobbe argues that the consumption of refined seed oils is the primary driver of modern chronic diseases, including coronary heart disease and diabetes.

Dr. Chris Knobbe is an ophthalmologist and Associate Clinical Professor Emeritus, formerly of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, in Dallas, Texas. He is also the founder and president of Cure AMD Foundation, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to the prevention of vision loss from age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Dr. Knobbe has a deep interest in general nutrition, particularly as it relates to chronic degenerative disease, though his primary area of expertise is with the disorder AMD. AMD is the leading cause of irreversible vision loss and blindness in people over the age of 65, currently affecting approximately 196 million people worldwide. Dr. Knobbe’s research efforts and revolutionary hypothesis for the nutritional basis of AMD have resulted in a published scientific paper, a book – Ancestral Dietary Strategy to Prevent and Treat Macular Degeneration – a website, CureAMD.org, and a second book currently in the making. Knobbe’s current research focuses substantially on omega-6 seed oil consumption as a major unifying driver of the chronic degenerative diseases of civilization, including AMD.

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What people say. Recommended as a comprehensive presentation of the argument and data against seed oils in the human diet.

shaicolemanin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Study finds childhood diet has lifelong impact”

Not all fats are created equal. There's data pointing that Omega-6 fatty acids (primarily vegetable/seed oils and trans fats) are harmful. See the following talk by Dr. Chris Knobbe: link to this video You can jump here for the studies: link to this video

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On “New model could explain old cholesterol mystery”

The idea that animal products are unhealthy seems to be misguided. It seems more likely that the supposedly "heart healthy" seed oils are causing heart disease. The Carnivore Code has some very good insights (at least in my opinion) 1 And this talk on how seed oils are destroying our health is also pretty interesting: link to this video 1 link

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On “Diabetes Drug Metformin Reduces All-Cause Mortality and Diseases of Aging (2017)”

I think the best talk of the health dangers of seed oils is in the following video: Dr. Chris Knobbe - 'Diseases of Civilization: Are Seed Oil Excesses the Unifying Mechanism?' 1 If you're short on time, you can skip directly to the trials data section 2 1. link to this video 2. link to this video

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

Recommended viewing: Dr. Chris Knobbe - Diseases of Civilization: Are Seed Oil Excesses the Unifying Mechanism? link to this video Here's a slide where he shows that soybean oil induces diabetes (in mice): link to this video The talk makes the case on how it's also applicable to humans.

bananabiscuitin Hacker News • Mentions

On “More than 100M Americans have diabetes or prediabetes (2017)”

Saw this submission yesterday that got no attention which claims seed oils (specifically Omega-6 fats) are the primary cause of diabetes (and other diseases): link to this video Don’t know much about this though. Anybody think there’s something to it?

airbreatherin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Losing It in the Anti-Dieting Age (2017)”

It's not fat as such, it's primarily inflammation and it looks like it's due to seed oils. link to this video Think about it, what's in everything in western diets and what is perceived as healthy for you. You might say sugar, but it's not seen as a good thing, seed oils are even more pervasive, seen as healthy and prime the body for problems with sugar. I grew up in NZ in the 70s, there was maybe one fat kid in one class. We all ate lamb chops 3 times a week and had dessert with ice cream every night. Same with my great grandmothers on both sides that both lived way past 100. But late 70s, margarine turned up as a "healthy alternative". Bullshit, the yellow dye is suss alone, but it's made with seed o…

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On “The great vegan diet ‘con’”

> Animal feed is usually not suitable for human consumption, so while technically there would be an abundance of food, it would not be edible by humans. > For corn for example, 7% of the harvest is suited for human consumption. The efficiency coefficient is pretty terrible if we throw away the remaining 93%. We don't need to produce those 93% of corn at all. We can reforest fields/pastures used for meat production and store a busload of CO2 in the process - link > Farm areas that can grow human edible food tend to not be used for animal feed. I don't know ... 75% of fields are used for animal agriculture, so one can easily get to that conclusion, but in my experience, those areas are inter…

some_furryin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality: study”

This isn't surprising; cold-pressed virgin olive oil has a much lower oxidation rate than other vegetable oils Related: link to this video

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On “Nutrient found in beef and dairy improves immune response to cancer”

It could also be a category error: Vegetable seed oils seem to correlate strongly with bad health outcomes. Meanwhile, other oils (e.g. olive oil) with similar levels of the same types of fatty acids have better outcomes. link to this video Is it the type of fat, or the process through which it's extracted, that's most important? I don't know if the answer is as clear as we'd like it to be. Going back to the article: Isn't it possible that the trans fat in question is actually toxic like other trans fats, but in a way that's narrowly beneficial in this circumstance?