Seed Oils and Susceptibility to Burning
This is one of my favorite X threads, but X is a strange, fluid place, so I thought I would memorialize it here for posterity.
I present the thread first as a narrative; the links to the tweets will appear below, along with the author's information.
Ok, time for a MIND. BLOWN. thread
I was cooking myself lunch just now. I wanted something quick and practical (and meat is always on the menu) so I went for steak and butter on steel pan. About a pound of it.
I'm not a frequent cook so sometimes I mess things up a little.
I was putting away things in the fridge when realized butter was smoking a lot.
I rushed to add the meat, butter splashed and half my thumb got licked by smoking butter (almost 200 C or 350 F)
I had read about @TuckerGoodrich's stories about resistance to sun burn and fire burns when you substitute PUFAs from your diet and my first reaction was confusion:
I very well know what an oil burn feels like and it just didn't hurt as much! Plus, my skin is not even red!
No pain, no redness, no swelling, NADA!
I had already noticed a huge, HUGE difference with my tolerance to sun but this is even crazier!
I'M REALLY IMPRESSED BY THIS!
Of course other factors can't be excluded, such as placebo effect 😉🙄😂
It's going to take a very, very good reason for me to ever use industrial PUFA oils in my kitchen again.
Funny thing is it's a bit awkward to even talk to people about this. People will surely think I'm crazy (or a quack)....
I'm telling you guys, @TuckerGoodrich is right on to something huge with potencially deep implications for health in general.
Someone has to give this a shot in formal research.
Great stuff. Exciting times
All thanks to Twitter. I would never have known about this anywhere else in a hundred times.
Plus people who are willing to direct you towards links, references and awesome discussions.
Fire-resistance, by diet!
I'm really blown away! Say what you will, quack or not.
End of thread.
Please somehow try this (SAFELY) at home!
Here's his twitter profile:
Here are the comments from my original post on Feb. 21, 2021:
And here’s the thread (first post here):
In regard to sunburn, there’s a strong correlation with vitamin D levels. After reading this, a thought occurred to me- vitamin D is fat soluble, what if you don’t metabolize vitamin D as well with seed oils as you do with animal fat? Is that why so many are so badly vitamin D deficient? I think seed oils are probably poison in the long run.
I've actually done that recently, frying my 3rd batch of chicken, in a pretty hot pan, the butter splashed on the base of my thumb. OW! Pretty sure it was a second degree burn, but when I googled it I was encouraged to go to the ER, which I refused to do as I'm an old fat white lady in a wheelchair, which doesn't go well. So all I did was run cool water on it for about 15 minutes, and then covered it with gauze and wore a glove to protect it. Oh, and take ibuprofen because it hurt a lot. I kept up the gauze and glove for a couple of days, but surprisingly, it never blistered, and while a spot turned red for a couple of days, it faded and now it's like it never happened. I figure I stopped eating seed oils in 2017 when I started just eating meat (and very small amounts of fruit), so maybe that's why.