Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Are Toxic, Right?

If you exclusively feed people polyunsaturated fatty acids, they go into ketosis and it burns off the HNE. There's one animal model problem with that: in excess, these fats are acutely toxic. They did a couple of human experiments where they fed people a lot of polyunsaturated fats to try and get them into ketosis. And they all got nausea, right? And nausea is a sign that you're eating a toxin, essentially.

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