Introduction This is a followup to my post Native Americans Removed Acorn Oil and Replaced It With Bear Fat. It also carries on the theme of adaptive thermogensis, which I introduced in This is Your Body Temperature on Vegetable Oil and continued in The Body Fat Saturation Of Starch Eaters; Linoleic Acid Dysregulates SCD1. In …

Bear Hunting Season; Native Americans Hunted Bear When The PUFA Content Was Lowest Read More »

I’ve argued in The SCD1 Theory of Obesity Part One and Part Two, as well as in This Is Your Body Temperature On Vegetable Oil that if your body fat is highly saturated, you will respond to an increase in body fat by increasing your metabolic rate through a process known as adaptive thermogenesis. In …

The Body Fat Saturation Of Starch Eaters; Linoleic Acid Dysregulates SCD1 Read More »

There is a great discussion thread for Croissant Diet/ROS Theory of Obesity/SCD1 Theory of Obesity over on reddit. u/Magnum2684 posted a list of additional things that can affect SCD1 levels. It’s a bit confusing to me – when they say “positive” they mean “reduces SCD1 expression” and when they say “negative” they mean “increases SCD1 …

New List of Additional SCD1 Regulators posted at r/SaturatedFat Read More »

Introduction This is the third part of my SCD1 Theory of Obesity series.  Here are part 1 and part 2.  There is a brief synopsis of the theory below if you don’t want to start from the beginning. Since I published the ROS theory of obesity, one of the most common questions I’ve gotten is, …

Dietary Monounsaturated Fat, The SCD1 Theory of Obesity, Part 3 Read More »

AKA The ROS Theory of Obesity Part 2, Part 1 Introduction In The ROS Theory Of Obesity, I argued that the key determinant of body fatness was the saturation level of fat as it enters the mitochondria.  In The Croissant Diet I addressed the dietary half of this equation, arguing that to lose weight you …

The SCD1 Theory of Obesity, Part 1 – Insulin, Leptin, SCD1 and Thermogenesis Read More »