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Isn't MCT saturated?
by alephx 7y ago
Isn't MCT saturated?
- kortex 7y agoYes, sorry the wording was a bit ambiguous. MCT is almost entirely saturated. Any natural oils can be broken down into free fatty acids which have a pro-inflammatory effect when "not where they belong", i.e. in the interstitial space. However, unsaturated fats have the fun additional property that they can be "oxidized in a tightly regulated and specific manner to generate either potent pro-inflammatory or pro-resolving lipid mediators" [1]. So MCT oil is probably pro-inflammatory in the lungs, but vegetable oil even more so. [1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2014.00483/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2014.0048...