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Ava's avatar

Sentence that caught my attention: "In contrast to industrially produced trans fats, the bacterial produced versions exist only as a few isomers."

Very well possible that different isomers have different effects on the human metabolism?

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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

> Everyone without exception agrees that trans-fats are bad news, and there even seems to be good reason to believe it as well, which is nice.

Well, that's not true for one. Partially hydrogenated vegetable oil trans-fats are bad. But not everyone agrees they're even as bad as regular PUFAs (e.g. Tucker Goodrich thinks they're much safer than non-hydrogenated PUFAs, and there are studies in mice showing this).

Also it's not "magic" it's that the natural "trans-fats" in dairy are completely different chemicals than partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. They seem to actually be beneficial, and exist even in grass-fed dairy.

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