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Great read. Why is it that middle-aged Englismen can essentially write about anything and it turns out fascinating and you wish you were there?! I truly believe this was the foundation of the British empire. (Is the E in empire capitalized?)

PUFA theory sure lets us draw quite a good line through all the points in our history. But, of course, it's easy enough to find an infinite number of lines to fit. The true test will be if It All Goes Away after X years of dePUFAcation. Hopefully we'll find some sort of useful proxy, like OmegaQuant or whatever, so we don't have to tell people "just keep going down this path for 7 years, trust me."

And in the meantime, it sure seems that PUFA acts as a sort of background radiation/catalyst for all sorts of more specific problems and puzzles that can be solved in the short-term: keto seems to circumvent certain ailments, protein restriction others.

Would these just work on their own, in absence of PUFA? Maybe. What makes me suspect this is that not everybody who's clearly metabolically messed up needs to restrict protein, or carbs. But of course that could also just mean it's genetic.

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