How does omega-6 vegetable oil confuse our cells?
It will probably be a little less digestible today, but I need to sort out my thoughts. It is time to make a small inventory of how specifically polyunsaturated vegetable oils, especially linoleic omega-6, affect cellular signaling in obtaining energy from available fuels and thus confuse the cell so much that it begins to behave completely differently than in the burning of conventional animal fats. Let us now repeat what we already know clearly about linoleic acid: It devastates our reserves of reduced glutathione (GSH). Low levels of GSH strongly suppress the activity of the first mitochondrial complex of the electron transport chain, thus suppressing the production of energy from NADH molecules. Initially, it improves insulin resistance, thus reducing H2O2 levels. It reduces the activity of the enzyme superoxide dismutase (SOD). It supports the beta-oxidation of unsaturated fats, the desaturation of saturated fats, ie the conversion of saturated fats to monounsaturated, the cleavag