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So cholesterol plays a huge role! The brain is the fattiest organ, so it makes a lot of sense. That we haven't found a correlation between statins and depressio
by omegaworks 6y ago
So cholesterol plays a huge role! The brain is the fattiest organ, so it makes a lot of sense. That we haven't found a correlation between statins and depression is certainly a quandary though.
I wonder if our national obsession with anti-fat dietary advice has had an impact on depression's prevalence in our population. It would seem to make sense that if we depress people with low-fat frankenfoods they naturally react with lower physical activity levels.
I wonder if omega-3 / omega-6 dietary balance changes the structure of the cell membranes to make them less permeable. Greater omega-3 cell membrane composition certainly seems to have a real impact on retina cells and the overall function of the retina[1].
1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2174995/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2174995/
- mckirk 6y agoYou might be on to something. I think what the US has done to yogurt should be banned under the Geneva convention.
- potatoyogurt 6y agoWhat did the US do to yogurt?
- mckirk 6y agoBasically, you have to go to specialty food stores (the arabian ones are really awesome from my experience) to actually find yogurt that's deserving of the name. For some reason the yogurt sold in regular supermarkets in the US is 'low fat' and 'strange consistency'.
- bagacrap 6y agoI can buy full fat goat milk yogurt at 5 different grocery stores within 2 miles of my house here in the good ol' US of A.
- mckirk 6y agoI'm honestly glad to hear that, it's been a while since I've been to the US and I was quite confused about the yogurt-availability back then :D (Or maybe I was just unlucky and in an anti-full-fat-yogurt part of the country.)
- astrange 6y agoAlmost every yogurt is full of added sugar. Sometimes the ingredients pretend it isn't sugar by calling it "evaporated cane juice". You can get actual healthy yogurt with plain Greek yogurt or skyr, though, it's not hard anymore.
- randycupertino 6y agoWe switched to Skyr and now all other yogurts taste disgustingly sweet to me. I've been cutting sugar way back and even a regular Boba tea was grossly sweet now. I'm taking it to mean this is working!
- m00x 6y agoCholesterols are a family of lipids (lipoproteins to be precise), not just one thing molecule.
- domnomnom 6y agoI've seen you say this a couple of times, but cholesterol in this context refers to something very specific. Essentially the ratio of cholesterol to other lipids in the cell membrane has influence on the bilayer dynamics of lipid raft formation and in this case receptor orientation.
- refurb 6y agoMost of the cholesterol in your body is synthesized, not from your diet.