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- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span><strong>Fats, functions &
- malfunctions</strong></span></span></span>
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- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span><strong>Saturated fatty acids
- terminate the stress reactions, polyunsaturated fatty acids amplify them.</strong></span
- ></span></span>
- </blockquote>
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- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span><strong>The most highly unsaturated
- fats, including DHA, accumulate with aging, and their toxic fragments are increased in
- Alzheimer's disease. </strong></span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
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- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span><strong>The most highly unsaturated
- fats found in fish oil break down into chemicals that block the use of glucose and
- oxygen.</strong></span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span><strong>The ratio of saturated fatty
- acids to polyunsaturated fatty acids is decreased in cancer. Omega-3 fats promote
- metastasis.</strong></span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>Around the beginning of the 20th
- century, it was commonly believed that aging resulted from the accumulation of insoluble
- metabolic by-products, sort of like the clinker ash in a coal furnace. Later, age pigment or
- lipofuscin, was proposed to be such a material. It is a brown pigment that generally increases
- with age, and its formation is increased by consumption of unsaturated fats, by vitamin E
- deficiency, by stress, and by exposure to excess estrogen. Although the pigment can contribute
- to the degenerative processes, aging involves much more than the accumulation of insoluble
- debris; aging increases the tendency to form the debris, as well as vice versa.</span></span
- ></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>There is a growing recognition that
- a persistent increase of free fatty acids in the serum, which is seen in shock, heart failure,
- and aging, indicates a bad prognosis, but there is no generally recognized explanation for the
- fact that free fatty acids are harmful. I want to mention some evidence showing that it is the
- accumulation of polyunsaturated fats in the body that makes them harmful.</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>The physical and functional
- properties of saturated fatty acids and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) are as different from
- each other as day is from night. The different fatty acids are directly involved, very often
- with opposite effects, in cell division and growth, cell stability and dissolution, the
- organization of cells, tissues, and organs, the regulation of pituitary hormones, adrenalin and
- sympathetic nervous activation, histamine and serotonin synthesis, adrenal cortex hormones,
- thyroid hormones, testosterone, estrogen, activators of the immune system and inflammation
- (cytokines), autoimmune diseases, detoxification, obesity, diabetes, puberty,
- epilepsy, </span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
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- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>Parkinson's disease, other
- degenerative nerve diseases and Alzheimer's disease, cancer, heart failure, atherosclerosis, and
- strokes. In each of these situations, the PUFA have harmful effects.</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>Most people are surprised to hear
- about the systematically harmful effects of the common dietary polyunsaturated fats and the
- protective effects of saturated fats. That's because there is a pervasive mythology of fats in
- our culture. Officials are proposing to tax saturated fats. Laws are being passed prescribing
- the fats that can be served in restaurants, and people write letters to editors about them, and
- great amounts of money are spent publicizing the importance of eating the right fats. Their
- focus is on obesity, atherosclerosis, and heart disease. The details of the myth change a
- little, as new fat products and industries appear. </span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
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- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>As I understand the basic myth, the
- difference between the "essential" polyunsaturated fats and the saturated fats has to do with
- their shape---the unsaturated fatty acids bend or fold in a way that makes them more mobile than
- saturated fats of the same length, and this causes the all-important "membranes" of cells to be
- more fluid, and thus to have "better functions," though the myth isn't very clear on the issue
- of fluidity and functionality. At that point, it passes responsibility to the more fundamental
- biological myth, of the metabolically active cell membrane. </span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>Practically everyone learns, in
- grade school and from television, about the good and the bad oils, and cell membranes, but it
- might seem likely that people who spend their lives investigating the role of fats in organisms
- would have acquired a different, more complicated, view. But one of the most famous food fat
- researchers, J.M. Bourre, has succinctly (and thoughtlessly) expressed his understanding of the
- function of fatty substances in the body: "In fact the brain, after adipose tissue, is the organ
- richest in lipids, whose only role is to participate in membrane structure." (J.M. Bourre,
- 2004.) The fact that his editor let him publish the statement shows how the myth functions,
- causing people to accept things because they are "common knowledge." The influence of the
- medical and pharmaceutical industries is so pervasive that it becomes the context for most
- biological research.</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>Luckily, many people are working
- outside the myth, in specialized problems of physiology and cell biology, and their observations
- are showing a reality much more complex and interesting than the mythology. </span></span
- ></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>When we eat more protein or
- carbohydrate than we need, the excess can be converted to fats, to be stored (as triglycerides),
- but even on a maintenance diet we synthesize some fats that are essential parts of all of our
- cells, including a great variety of phospholipids. People seldom talk about the importance of
- fats in the nucleus of the cell, but every nucleus contains a variety of lipids--phospholipids,
- sphingolipids, cholesterol, even triglycerides--similar to those that are found elsewhere in the
- cell and in every part of the body, including the brain (Balint and Holczinger, 1978; Irvine,
- 2002). Phospholipids are often considered to be "membrane lipids," but they have been
- demonstrated in association with elements of the cell's skeleton, involved in cell division,
- rather than in membranes (Shogomori, et al., 1993).</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
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- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>The cytoskeleton, a fibrous
- framework of the cell that's responsible for maintaining the organized structure of the cell,
- internal movement of organelles, coordination, locomotion, and cell division, is made up of
- three main kinds of protein, and all of these are affected differently by different kinds of
- fat. </span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
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- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>Actions of lipids on the cell
- skeleton can change cells' movements, migrations, and invasiveness. Unsaturated fats cause
- clumping of some types of cell filament, condensation and polymerization of other types, in ways
- that are associated with brain degenerative diseases and cancer. For example, DHA alters the
- structure of the protein alpha-synuclein, causing it to take the form seen in Parkinson's
- disease and other brain conditions. The synucleins regulate various structural proteins, and are
- affected by stress, aging, and estrogen exposure, as well as by the polyunsaturated fats. One
- type of synuclein is involved in the promotion of breast cancer. Saturated fatty acids have
- exactly the opposite effects of PUFA on the synucleins, reversing the polymerization caused by
- the PUFA (Sharon, et al., 2003). </span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
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- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>When cancers are metastasizing,
- their phospholipids contain less stearic acid than the less malignant tumors (Bougnoux, et al.,
- 1992), patients with advanced cancer had less stearic acid in their red blood cells (Persad, et
- al., 1990), and adding stearic acid to their food delayed the development of cancer in mice
- (Bennett, 1984). The degree of saturation of the body's fatty acids corresponds to resistance to
- several types of cancer that have been studied (Hawley and Gordon, 1976; Singh, et al.,
- 1995).</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>The phospholipids are being
- discussed in relation to drugs that can modify "signaling" by acting on phospholipid receptors,
- using language that was developed in relation to hormones. A surface barrier membrane, with
- receptors that send signals to the nucleus, is invoked by many of the recent discussions of
- phospholipids. There's no question that the fats do affect regulatory processes, but the theory
- and the language should correspond to the physiological and ecological realities. Vernadski's
- metaphor, that an organism is a "whirlwind of atoms," is probably more appropriate than
- "targeted signals and receptors" for understanding the physiology of fatty acids and
- phospholipids. The rate of change and renewal of these structural fats is very high. In rats,
- one study found a 30% decrease in the total phospholipid pool in the brain in the first 30
- minutes after death (Adineh, et al., 2004). Another study in the brains of living rats
- found that a particular class of brain lipids, ethanolamine plasmalogens, had a turnover time of
- about 5 hours (Masuzawa, et al., 1984). (This type of lipid is an important component of the
- lipoproteins secreted by the liver into the serum [Vance, 1990], and is also a major lipid in
- the heart and brain.) Stresses such as the loss of sleep cause great distortions in
- phospholipid metabolism throughout the body, especially in the brain and liver.</span></span
- ></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>Actions of lipids on the cell
- skeleton can change cells' movements, migrations, and invasiveness, even in short term
- experiments. The effects of the "essential fatty acid" linoleic acid have been compared to the
- drug colchicine, which is known to interfere with the cell skeleton and cell division. According
- to Hoover, et al., (1981), it disturbed the structure of the cytoskeleton more than colchicine
- does; it caused the cell filaments to clump together, while saturated fatty acids didn't have
- such an effect.</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>The fatty molecules that participate
- in the normal cell functions are made by cells even when they are grown in a fat-free solution
- in a culture dish. They include saturated fatty acids such as palmitate and stearate, and
- omega-9 unsaturated fats, such as oleic acid and omega-9 polyunsaturated fatty acids. The
- saturated fatty acids found in the nucleus associated with the chromosomes are resistant to
- change when the composition of the animal's diet changes (Awad and Spector, 1976), while the
- unsaturated fats change according to the diet. These intracellular fats are essential for cell
- division and the regulation of the genes, and for cell survival (Irvine, 2002). Although cells
- make the saturated fats that participate in those basic functions, the high rate of metabolism
- means that some of the lipids will quickly reflect in their structure the free fatty acids that
- circulate in the blood. The fats in the blood reflect the individual's diet history, but
- recently eaten fats can appear in the serum as free fatty acids, if the liver isn't able to
- convert them into triglycerides.</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>The polyunsaturated fatty acids
- differ from the saturated fats in many ways, besides their shape and their melting temperature,
- and each type of fatty acid is unique in its combination of properties. The polyunsaturated
- fatty acids, made by plants (in the case of fish oils, they are made by algae), are less stable
- than the saturated fats, and the omega-3 and omega-6 fats derived from them, are very
- susceptible to breaking down into toxins, especially in warm-blooded animals. Other differences
- between saturated and polyunsaturated fats are in their effects on surfaces (as surfactant),
- charges (dielectric effects), acidity, and their solubility in water relative to their
- solubility in oil. The polyunsaturated fatty acids are many times more water soluble than
- saturated fatty acids of the same length. This property probably explains why only palmitic acid
- functions as a surfactant in the lungs, allowing the air sacs to stay open, while unsaturated
- fats cause lung edema and respiratory failure.</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>The great difference in water/oil
- solubility affects the strength of binding between a fatty acid and the lipophilic, oil-like,
- parts of proteins. When a protein has a region with a high affinity for lipids that contain
- double bonds, polyunsaturated fatty acids will displace saturated fats, and they can sometimes
- displace hormones containing multiple double bonds, such as thyroxine and estrogen, from the
- proteins that have a high specificity for those hormones. Transthyretin (also called prealbumin)
- is important as a carrier of the thyroid hormone and vitamin A. The unsaturation of vitamin A
- and of thyroxin allow them to bind firmly with transthyretin and certain other proteins, but the
- unsaturated fatty acids are able to displace them, with an efficiency that increases with the
- number of double bonds, from linoleic (with two double bonds) through DHA (with six double
- bonds). </span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>The large amount of albumin in the
- blood is important in normal fatty acid binding and transport, but it is also an important part
- of our detoxifying system, since it can carry absorbed toxins from the intestine, lungs, or skin
- to the liver, for detoxification. Albumin facilitates the uptake of saturated fatty acids by
- cells of various types (Paris, et al., 1978), and its ability to bind fatty acids can protect
- cells to some extent from the unsaturated fatty acids (e.g., Rhoads, et al., 1983). The liver's
- detoxification system processes some polyunsaturated fats for excretion, along with hormones and
- environmental toxins.</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>The movement of proteins from the
- plasma into cells has often been denied, but there is clear evidence that a variety of proteins,
- including IgG, transferrin haptoglobin, and albumin can be found in a variety of cells, even in
- the brain (Liu, et al., 1989). Cells are lipophilic, and absorb molecules in proportion to their
- fattiness; this long ago led people to theorize that cells are coated with a fat
- membrane. </span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>The idea of a semipermeable
- membrane, similar in function to the membrane inside an egg shell, was proposed about 150 years
- ago, to explain the ability of living cells to concentrate certain chemicals, such as potassium
- ions, while excluding others, such as sodium ions. This idea of a molecular sieve was shown to
- be invalid when radioactive isotopes made it possible to observe that sodium ions diffuse freely
- into cells, and it was replaced by the idea of a metabolically active membrane, containing
- "pumps" that made up for the inability to exclude various things, and that allowed cells to
- retain high concentrations of some dissolved substances that are free to diffuse out of the
- cell. The general idea of the membrane as a barrier persisted as a sort of "common sense" idea,
- that has made people ignore experiments that show that some large molecules, including some
- proteins, can quickly and massively enter cells. Albumin and transthyretin are two proteins that
- are sometimes found in large quantities inside cells, and their primary importance is that they
- bind and transport biologically active oily molecules. </span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>While the competition by PUFA for
- protein binding sites blocks the effects of thyroid hormone and vitamin A, the action of PUFA on
- the sex steroid binding protein (SBP, or SSBG, for sex steroid binding globulin) increases the
- activity of estrogen. That's because the SSBG neutralizes estrogen by binding it, keeping it out
- of cells; free PUFA keep it from binding estrogen (Reed, et al., 1986). People with low
- SSBG/estrogen ratio have an increased risk of cancer. When the SSBG protein is free of estrogen,
- it is able to enter cells, and in that estrogen-free state it probably serves a similar
- protective function, capturing estrogen molecules that enter cells before they can act on other
- proteins or chromosomes. Transthyretin, the main transporter of thyroid and vitamin A, and
- albumin (which can also transport thyroid hormone) are both able to enter cells, while loaded
- with thyroid hormone and vitamin A. Albumin becomes more lipophilic as it binds more lipid
- molecules, so its tendency to enter cells increases in proportion to its fat burden. Albumin in
- the urine is a problem associated with diabetes and kidney disease; albumin loaded with fatty
- acids passes from the blood into the urine more easily than unloaded albumin, and it is the
- fatty acids, not the albumin, which causes the kidney damage (Kamijo, et al., 2002). It's
- possible that SSBG's opposite behavior, entering cells only when it carries no hormones, is the
- result of becoming less lipophilic when it's loaded with estrogen.</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>Since most people believe that cells
- are enclosed within a barrier membrane, a new industry has appeared to sell special products to
- "target" or "deliver" proteins into cells across the barrier. Combining anything with fat makes
- it more likely to enter cells. Stress (which increases free fatty acids and lowers cell energy)
- makes cells more permeable, admitting a broader range of substances, including those that are
- less lipophilic. </span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>Linoleic acid and arachidonic acid,
- which are said to "make the lipid membrane more permeable," in fact make the whole cell more
- permeable, by binding to the structural proteins throughout the cell, increasing their affinity
- for water, causing generalized swelling, as well as mitochondrial swelling (leading to reduced
- oxidative function or disintegration), allowing more calcium to enter the cell, activating
- excitatory processes, stimulating a redox shift away from oxidation and toward inflammation,
- leading to either (inappropriate) growth or death of the cell. </span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>When we don't eat for many hours,
- our glycogen stores decrease, and adrenaline secretion is increased, liberating more glucose as
- long as glycogen is available, but also liberating fatty acids from the fatty tissues. When the
- diet has chronically contained more polyunsaturated fats than can be oxidized immediately or
- detoxified by the liver, the fat stores will contain a disproportionate amount of them, since
- fat cells preferentially oxidize saturated fats for their own energy, and the greater water
- solubility of the PUFA causes them to be preferentially released into the bloodstream during
- stress.</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>In good health, especially in
- children, the stress hormones are produced only in the amount needed, because of negative
- feedback from the free saturated fatty acids, which inhibit the production of adrenalin and
- adrenal steroids, and eating protein and carbohydrate will quickly end the stress. But when the
- fat stores contain mainly PUFA, the free fatty acids in the serum will be mostly linoleic acid
- and arachidonic acid, and smaller amounts of other unsaturated fatty acids. These PUFA stimulate
- the stress hormones, ACTH, cortisol, adrenaline, glucagon, and prolactin, which increase
- lipolysis, producing more fatty acids in a vicious circle. In the relative absence of PUFA, the
- stress reaction is self limiting, but under the influence of PUFA, the stress response becomes
- self-amplifying. </span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>When stress is very intense, as in
- trauma or sepsis, the reaction of liberating fatty acids can become dangerously
- counter-productive, producing the state of shock. In shock, the liberation of free fatty acids
- interferes with the use of glucose for energy and causes cells to take up water and calcium
- (depleting blood volume and reducing circulation) and to leak ATP, enzymes, and other cell
- contents (Boudreault and Grygorczyk, 2008; Wolfe, et al., 1983; Selzner, et al, 2004; van der
- Wijk, 2003), in something like a systemic inflammatory state (Fabiano, et al., 2008) often
- leading to death. </span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>The remarkable resistance of
- "essential fatty acid deficient" animals to shock (Cook, et al., 1981; Li et al., 1990; Autore,
- et al., 1994) shows that the polyunsaturated fats are centrally involved in the maladaptive
- reactions of shock. The cellular changes that occur in shock--calcium retention, leakiness,
- reduced energy production--are seen in aging and the degenerative diseases; the stress hormones
- and free fatty acids tend to be chronically higher in old age, and an outstanding feature of old
- age is the reduced ability to tolerate stress and to recover from injuries.</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>Despite the instability of
- polyunsaturated fatty acids, which tend to break down into toxic fragments, and despite their
- tendency to be preferentially liberated from fat cells during stress, the proportion of them in
- many tissues increases with age (Laganiere and Yu, 1993, 1987; Lee, et al., 1999; Smidova, et
- al., 1990;Tamburini, et al., 2004; Nourooz-Zadeh J and Pereira, 1999 ). This progressive
- increase with age can be seen already in early childhood (Guerra, et al., 2007). The reason for
- this increase seems to be that the saturated fatty acids are preferentially oxidized by many
- types of cell, (fat cells can slowly oxidize fat for their own energy maintenance). Albumin
- preferentially delivers saturated fatty acids into actively metabolizing cells such at the heart
- (Paris, 1978) for use as fuel. This preferential oxidation would explain Hans Selye's results,
- in which canola oil in the diet caused the death of heart cells, but when the animals received
- stearic acid in addition to the canola oil, their hearts showed no sign of damage.</span></span
- ></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>Since healthy cells are very
- lipophilic, saturated fatty acids would have a greater tendency to enter them than the more
- water soluble polyunsaturated fats, especially those with 4, 5, or 6 double bonds, but as cells
- become chronically stressed they more easily admit the unsaturated fats, which slow oxidative
- metabolism and create free radical damage. The free radicals are an effect of stress and aging,
- as well as a factor in its progression.</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>When stress signals activate enzymes
- in fat cells to release free fatty acids from the stored triglycerides, the enzymes in the
- cytoplasm act on the surface of the droplet of fat. This means that the fatty acids with the
- greatest water solubility will be liberated from the fat to move into the blood stream, while
- the more oil soluble fatty acids will remain in the droplet. The long chain of saturated carbon
- atoms (8 in the case of oleic acid, 15 in palmitic acid, and 17 in stearic acid) in the "tail"
- of oleic, palmitic, and stearic acid will be buried in the fat droplet, while the tail of the
- n-3 fatty acids, with only 2 saturated carbons, will be the most exposed to the lipolytic
- enzymes. This means that the n-3 fatty acids are the first to be liberated during stress, the
- n-6 fatty acids next. Saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids are selectively retained by fat
- cells (Speake, et al., 1997).</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>Women are known to have a greater
- susceptibility than men to lipolysis, with higher levels of free fatty acids in the serum and
- liver, because of the effects of estrogen and related hormones. </span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>Women on average have more DHA
- circulating in the serum than men (Giltay, et al., 2004; McNamara, et al., 2008; Childs, et al.,
- 2008). This highly unsaturated fatty acid is the first to be liberated from the fat stores under
- stress, and, biologically, the meaning of estrogen is to mimic stress. Estrogen and
- polyunsaturated fatty acids have similar actions on cells, increasing their water content and
- calcium uptake. Long before the Women's Health Initiative reported in 2002 that the use of
- estrogen increased the risk of dementia, it was known that the incidence of Alzhemer's disease
- was 2 or 3 times higher in women than in men. Men with Alzheimer's disease have higher levels of
- estrogen than normal men (Geerlings, et al., 2006). The amount of DHA in the brain (and other
- tissues) increases with aging, and its breakdown products, including neuroprostanes, are
- associated with dementia. Higher levels of DHA and total PUFA are found in the plasma of
- demented patients (Laurin, et al., 2003).</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>Another interesting association of
- the highly unsaturated fats and estrogen in relation to brain function is that DHA increases the
- entry of estrogen into the pregnant uterus, but inhibits the entry of progesterone (Benassayag,
- et al., 1999), which is crucial for brain cell growth. When Dirix, et al., (2009) supplemented
- pregnant women with PUFA, they found that fetal memory was impaired. </span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>The crucial mitochondrial
- respiratory enzyme, cytochrome c oxidase, declines with aging (Paradies, et al., 1997), as the
- lipid cardiolipin declines, and the enzyme's activity can be restored to the level of young
- animals by adding cardiolipin. The composition of cardiolipin changes with aging, "specifically
- an increase in highly unsaturated fatty acids" (Lee, et al., 2006). Other lipids, such as a
- phosphatidylcholine containing two myristic acid groups, can support the enzyme's activity
- (Hoch, 1992). Even supplementing old animals with hydrogenated peanut oil restores mitochondrial
- respiration to about 80% of normal (Bronnikov, et al., 2010). </span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>Supplementing thyroid hormone
- increases mitochondrial cardiolipin (Paradies and Ruggiero, 1988). Eliminating the
- polyunsaturated fats from the diet increases mitochondrial respiration (Rafael, et al.,
- 1984).</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>Excitotoxicity is the process in
- which activation of a nerve cell beyond its capacity to produce energy injures or kills the
- cell, by increasing intracellular calcium. Glutamic acid and aspartic acid are the normal
- neurotransmitter excitatory amino acids. Estrogen increases the activity of the excitatory
- transmitter glutamate (Weiland, 1992), and glutamate increases the release of free fatty acids
- (Kolko, et al., 1996). DHA (more strongly even than arachidonic acid) inhibits the uptake of the
- excitotoxic amino acid aspartate, and in some situations glutamate, prolonging their actions.
- Thymocytes are much more easily killed by stress than nerve cells, and they are easy to study.
- The PUFA kill them by increasing their intracellular calcium. The toxicity of DHA is greater
- than that of EPA, whose toxicity is greater than alpha-linolenic acid, and linoleic acid was the
- most potent (Prasad, et al., 2010). Excitotoxicity is probably an important factor in
- Alzheimer's disease (Danysz and Parsons, 2003).</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>When the brain is injured, DHA and
- arachidonic acid contribute to brain edema, weakening the blood-brain-barrier, increasing
- protein breakdown, inflammation, and peroxidation, while a similar amount of stearic acid in the
- same situation caused no harm (Yang, et al., 2007). In other situations, such as the important
- intestinal barrier, EPA and DHA also greatly increased the permeability (Dombrowsky, et al.,
- 2011).</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>The process by which excitotoxicity
- kills a cell is probably a foreshortened version of the aging process. </span></span></span
- >
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>Excitotoxins (including endotoxin)
- increase the formation of neuroprostanes and isoprostanes (from n-3 and n-6 PUFA) (Milatovic, et
- al., 2005), and acrolein and other fragments, which inhibit the use of glucose and oxygen.
- DHA and EPA produce acrolein and HHE, which react with lysine groups in proteins, and modify
- nucleic acids, changing the bases in DNA. </span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>Increased intracellular calcium
- activates lipolysis (by phospholipases), producing more free fatty acids, as well as excitation
- and protein breakdown, and in the brain neurodegenerative diseases, calcium excess contributes
- to the clumping of synuclein (Wojda, et al., 2008), an important regulator of the cytoskeletal
- proteins. The reduced function of normal synuclein makes cells more susceptible to
- excitotoxicity (Leng and Chuang, 2006).</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>If the cells adapt to the increased
- calcium, rather than dying, their sensitivity is reduced. This is probably involved in the
- "defensive inhibition" seen in many types of cell. In the brain, DHA and arachidonic acid
- "brought the cells to a new steady state of a moderately elevated [intracellular calcium] level,
- where the cells became virtually insensitive to external stimuli. This new steady state can be
- considered as a mechanism of self-protection" (Sergeeva, et al., 2005). In the heart, the PUFAs
- decreased the sensitivity to stimulation (Coronel et al., 2007) and conduction velocity
- (Tselentakis, et al., 2006; Dhein, et al., 2005). Both DHA and EPA inhibit calcium-ATPase (which
- keeps intracellular calcium low to allow normal neurotransmission) in the cerebral cortex; this
- suggests "a mechanism that explains the dampening effect of omega-3 fatty acids on neuronal
- activity" (Kearns and Haag, 2002).</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>In normal aging, most processes are
- slowed, including nerve conduction velocity, and conduction velocity in the heart (Dhein and
- Hammerath, 2001). A similar "dampening" or desensitization is seen in sensory, endocrine, and
- immune systems, as well as in energy metabolism. Calorie restriction, by decreasing the
- age-related accumulation of PUFA (20:4, 22:4, and 22:5), can prevent the decrease of
- sensitivity, for example in lymphoid cells (Laganier and Fernandes, 1991). The known effects of
- the unsaturated fats on the organizational framework of the cell are consistent with the changes
- that occur in aging.</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>One of the essential protective
- functions that decline with aging is the liver's ability to detoxify chemicals, by combining
- them with glucuronic acid, making them water soluble so that they can be excreted in the urine.
- The liver (and also the intestine and stomach) efficiently process DHA by glucuronidation
- (Little, et al., 2002). Oleic acid, one of the fats that we synthesize ourselves, increases
- (about 8-fold) the activity of the glucuronidation process (Krcmery and Zakim, 1993; Okamura, et
- al., 2006). However, this system is inhibited by the PUFA, arachidonic acid (Yamashita, et al.,
- 1997), and also by linoleic acid (Tsoutsikos, et al., 2004), in one of the processes that
- contribute to the accumulation of PUFA with aging.</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>Animals that naturally have a
- relatively low level of the highly unsaturated fats in their tissues have the greatest
- longevity. For example, the naked mole rate has a life expectancy of more than 28 years, about 9
- times as long as other rodents of a similar size. Only about 2% to 6% of its phospholipids
- contain DHA, while about 27% to 57% of the phospholipids of mice contain DHA Mitchell, et al.,
- 2007). </span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>The famously long-lived people of
- Azerbaijan eat a diet containing a low ratio of unsaturated to saturated fats, emphasizing
- fruits, vegetables, and dairy products (Grigorov, et al., 1991).</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>Some of the clearest evidence of the
- protective effects of saturated fats has been published by A.A. Nanji's group, showing that they
- can reverse the inflammation, necrosis, and fibrosis of alcoholic liver disease, even with
- continued alcohol consumption, while fish oil and other unsaturated fats exacerbate the problem
- (Nanji, et al., 2001). Glycine protects against fat accumulation in alcohol-induced liver injury
- (Senthilkumar, et al., 2003), suggesting that dietary gelatin would complement the protective
- effects of saturated fats.</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>The least stable n-3 fats which
- accumulate with age and gradually reduce energy production also have their short term effects on
- endurance. Endurance was much lower in rats fed a high n-3 fat diet, and the effect persisted
- even after 6 weeks on a standard diet (Ayre and Hulbert, 1997). Analogous, but less extreme
- effects are seen even in salmon, which showed increased oxidative stress on a high n-3 diet (DHA
- or EPA), and lower mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase activity (Kjaer, et al., 2008). </span
- ></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>Maintaining a high rate of oxidative
- metabolism, without calorie restriction, retards the accumulation of PUFA, and a high metabolic
- rate is associated with longevity. An adequate amount of sugar maintains both a high rate of
- metabolism, and a high respiratory quotient, i.e., high production of carbon dioxide. Mole rats,
- bats, and queen bees, with an unusually great longevity, are chronically exposed to high levels
- of carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide forms carbamino bonds with the amino groups of proteins,
- inhibiting their reaction with the reactive "glycating" fragments of PUFA.</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote></blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>To minimize the accumulation of the
- highly unsaturated fatty acids with aging, it's probably reasonable to reduce the amount of them
- directly consumed in foods, such as fish, but since they are made in our own tissues from the
- "essential fatty acids," linoleic and linolenic acids, it's more important to minimize the
- consumption of those (from plants, pork, and poultry, for example).</span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: Helvetica"><span>In the resting state, muscles
- consume mainly fats, so maintaining relatively large muscles is important for preventing the
- accumulation of fats. </span></span></span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote>
- <span style="color: #222222"
- > </span>
- </blockquote>
- <blockquote>
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