Fish Oil & Oleic Acid Counter Each Other's Beneficial Health Effects: MUFAs Improve Cholesterol & Glucose Metabolism, Fish Oil Lowers Triglycerides But Only On Their Own!
Oleic acid and fish oil don't mix. Everybody is still talking about the omega-3 to omega-6 ratio, but SuppVersity readers are, as always, one step ahead and will (as of now) closely eye-ball their omega-3 to MUFA or precisely their DHA + EPA vs. oleic acid ratio, as well. In a recent study, Sani Hlais and his colleagues from the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, analyzed the effects of 12 weeks of differently dosed fish and/or high-oleic acid sunflower oil (OSO) supplementation in 98 healthy subjects (18–35 not on meds and supplement abstinent; Hlais. 2013) "Hold on!? Healthy sunflower oil?" I know, the current dogma is: "There is no oil beside fish and coconut oil... well maybe virgin olive oil." But just as the term "dogma" implies this is just a deeply ingrained pattern - no universal truth. The statistically significant reductions of total and LDL cholesterol in the OSO group (8g/da...