was feeling weirdly tired and sad and wanting to scroll on twitter forever and then i remembered i ate a bag of chips (cooked in seed oils) today as an experiment
motherfucker welp that’s my experimental result
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would not be surprised that being hit with moar inflammatory signals can make the bodymind bias towards "let's be sessile for a while while we work through this"
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yeah i do feel better as my digestive system gets more time and space to work but ugh it’s like being sick temporarily
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thats why i went full seed oil disrespecter, regardless of what the Research says; feeling like crap isnt worth the taste (nor is instantly burning in the sun)
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what do you mean instantly burning in the sun?
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getting a photosensitivity reaction within like, 15 minutes, much like the one you get when you take an photosensitizing antibiotic that causes UV-induced lipid peroxidation
turns out 1) that's not normal and 2) being outside is a lot more pleasant when that doesn't happen
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(i confirmed this experimentally indeed by taking such an antibiotic (TMP/SMX) and i started burning again in the sun in exactly the same way as i had burnt for my whole life until i stopped eating seed oils -- and it went away when i stopped taking the antibiotic)
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(theres experimental evidence in lab animals showing increased sun sensitivity caused by PUFAs thats at least partly mediated by increased lipid peroxidation and omega-6 PUFAs (except for omega-3 PUFAs; those tend to act in anti-inflammatory direction) are pro-inflammatory too)
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oh huh. when i used to itch in the sun a lot i was eating a lot of restaurant food. hmmmmmm