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188. How seed oils make you fat with Tucker Goodrich and Jeff Nobbs

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Why Increased Consumption of Nuts and Seed Oils Lead to Weight Gain?

We don't know for sure why increased consumption of seed oils lead to increased weight gain in obesity. Studies seem to point to certain outcomes or evolutionarily certain things would happen when we ate different types of food. One explanation is what you're describing Paul that it could be an evolutionarily conserved mechanism from small rodents to other primates and potentially even humans where winter is coming, time to put on weight,. Tucker: It's entirely possible one could argue that we're going through another genetic adaptation to a high seed oil diet.

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