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CLnA, the "Omega-3 Variety" of CLA from Pomegranate & Co, Has Potent Anti-Obesity Effects and the Potential to Become More Than Just Another Anti-Diabetes Drug.

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Image 1: Pomegranate - I loved to eat them even before I realized that their seeds are the #1 dietary source (83%) of punic acid. While more and more people are beginning to grasp the notion that with (naturally occurring) fats - as with everything else in life - there is no simple "good" and "bad", no clearcut "black" and "white" and no definite "beneficial" and "detrimental". The number of different fatty acids and their respective effects on the human metabolism is so vast that it is pretty hard to keep track of all those varieties of saturated and unsaturated carboxylic acids. I would thusly not be surprised if you simply assumed that the "n" in the headline of this blogpost was a type that had slipped in because poor Dr.Andro is chronically stressed from Christmas shopping... well, while the latter is actually correct, the former is not: CLnA is actually the omega-3 variety of the famous conjugated linoic ac...

Fat or Fire, What Comes First? Scientists Answer: Obesity Alone Triggers Inflammatory Signaling in Mice

The metabolic syndrome, i.e. the combination of obesity, inflammation and insulin resistance, is at the center of contemporary medical research. In my appearance on Carl Lenore's Super Human Radio , I already mentioned that from a logical perspective the mainstream belief, inflammation was the root of all evil, must be flawed. How should the reaction to a problem be the cause of the very problem itself? A recent study coming from a group of Korean scientists strengthens my conviction that out of the triad that not inflammation, but rather obesity or - one step further up in the genesis of the pathology - the combination of an unhealthy diet and a sedentary lifestyle is at the heart of the triad we now call the "metabolic syndrome". Kim et al. investigated the pro-inflammatory signaling cascade in either diet-induced (DIO) or leptin gene deficient (ob/ob) obese mice and found that obesity alone ... [...] up-regulated the expression of TLR1–9 and TLR11–13 in murine adip...
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