Trans Fats Definition. What You Need To Know To Optimize Your Health

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kind of interesting with all of the

diets and all of the ideas and all the

philosophies of vegetarianism and keto

and and eat this and that and the - diet

and the Mediterranean diet there's so

many different opinions but there's two

things that everyone agrees on across

the board and that is white sugar is

really bad and trans fats are really bad.

So we've gotten that far we have some

that much agreement but let's talk about

what trans fats are so a fatty acid is a

chain of carbons linked together usually

the fats we eat are anywhere from from 4

carbons up to 20 ish and each carbon can

connect with 4 different things so it

connects to another carbon and that

leaves it 3 other connections and at the

one end it connects with 3 hydrogen's

then along the way it binds with 2

carbons so it only has room to bind with

2 hydrogen's and then at the end it

binds with what's called a carboxyl

group

it's a COOH I didn't put that on here

but that is what makes it a fatty acid

the the carboxyl group is what makes it

a fatty acid and every fatty acid has

one at the end but along the way they

can look differently so if it's a

straight chain where every carbon is

only bound by a single bond to every

other carbon it makes a straight chain

and there's hydrogen's plugged in on

every position and that's called a

saturated fatty acid because it's

saturated it's jam-packed it's gonna be

straight and when you have straight

things they pack closely together like

pencils in a box

and that makes the fat solid at room

temperature so it's going to have a very

high melting point these carbons can

also make double bonds they can use two

of their connections between each other

and in nature what happens now is that

wherever it makes a double bond it puts

both the hydrogen's on the same side so

they take up space on this side and

there is less stuff on the inside which

makes this molecule bend and when

they're bent they don't pack so tightly

together and this is what makes an oil

or a liquid at room temperature so these

things have low melting temperatures and

if they have multiple double bonds so

they're polyunsaturated they can even

stay liquid in the freezer sometimes

like fish oil and flax oil so if the

hydrogens are on the same side this is

called a CIS bond now there is a strange

animal where the hydrogen's end up on

opposite sides and that's called a trans

fat so this is different because there

is a double bond but it's straight so

it's a it's an unsaturated fat that's

behaving like a saturated fat that's why

they started doing this because they can

take an oil that is liquid and they can

turn it into a solid and make margarine

so that takes it from liquid to solid

but it also improves the shelf-life

because an unsaturated fat is very

reactive but once they turn it into this

even though it has a double bond and is

strictly still unsaturated it still

behaves as a saturated so this is kind

of a hybrid most of the time these are

man-made they're synthetic there is one

unique case in nature and it's called a

conjugated linoleic acid and this is

where in nature it actually made

a CIS and a trans it makes this and

this at the same time and this is a very

very healthy thing so if you have a

healthy gut flora if you have lots and

lots of healthy bifida bacteria your

your gut will manufacture this and this

has been shown in research to have

multiple health benefits it's even sold

as a nutritional supplement so even

though it is a trans fat it is not the

man-made synthetic toxic trans fat

everyone agrees that this is one of the

worst abominations of chemistry that we

have ever produced but just because

they're a trance doesn't mean that this

is a bad one the synthetic is terrible

and the natural is healthy so if you

have good health gut bacteria you can

make this but you can also consume it

from dairy and meat if the cows were

grass-fed because if the cows are

healthy if they eat a natural diet then

they produce this healthy thing so a

grass-fed cow will make up to five times

more CLA than a corn-fed cow once again

it's fascinating to me how well Nature

has all of this stuff figured out so the

reason this one doesn't fit is because

it's a straight molecule acting like a

saturated but it's not and every place

that these molecules are different we

need a different enzyme to process it so

Nature has provided us with enzymes

through the generations for every

conceivable combination except the

man-made ones so when these find their

ways into your membranes then they

disrupt the function your brain cell

membranes your blood vessel cell

membranes their impulse

they don't act chemically they look one

way and act another so your body gets

really confused and they kind of

infiltrate your cell membranes and your

body doesn't know what to do with them

and as these accumulate then they create

damage so that's the difference man-made

trans fats are terrible trans fats in

nature are very beneficial for us so

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