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It reversed it. =C2=A0 ********************************************* The Fat in Butter that Reverses Artery Plaque ********************************************* ( https://shop.thrivemarket.com/sos ) Thrive Market ( https://shop.thrivemarket.com/sos ) is an online grocery st= ore, delivering direct-to-door. Shop Seed Oil Safe brands like Against the = Grain, Fatworks, Gheelish, Ice Cream for Bears, Jesse & Ben's, Kettle & Fir= e, Lovebird, NUFS, and SideDish. Get $20 off ( https://shop.thrivemarket.co= m/sos ) your first 3 orders, plus a free $60 gift For decades, you were told to swap butter for margarine to protect your hea= rt. Butter clogs arteries. Margarine saves them. That was the pitch. But a = study published in Atherosclerosis found something the margarine lobby neve= r mentioned: a naturally occurring fat in butter and beef doesn't just slow= artery plaque. It reverses it. =E2=80=8A ********* The Study ********* Researchers at Trinity College Dublin took mice genetically engineered to d= evelop atherosclerosis (ApoE-knockout mice) and fed them a high-cholesterol= diet for eight weeks to build up artery plaque. Then they split the mice i= nto two groups: one continued on the same diet, the other got the same diet= plus 1% conjugated linoleic acid (CLA). After eight more weeks, the CLA group showed almost complete resolution of = their pre-existing arterial lesions. Not a slowdown. Not a pause. Near-tota= l reversal. The mechanism? CLA reduced macrophage buildup in artery walls, triggered pr= ogrammed cell death in damaged plaque tissue, and activated PPAR=CE=B1 and = PPAR=CE=B3 receptors, both of which suppress chronic inflammation. It also = inhibited platelet deposits on artery walls, a key driver of clot formation= =2E (Toomey et al., 2006, Atherosclerosis - PubMed ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.ni= h.gov/16182300 )) =E2=80=8A ************ What is CLA? ************ Conjugated linoleic acid is a naturally occurring trans fat (the good kind)= produced in the stomachs of ruminant animals like cows, sheep, and goats. = It ends up in their milk and meat. Here's the twist: CLA is technically a form of linoleic acid, the same omeg= a-6 fatty acid found in seed oils. But its molecular geometry is completely= different. The "conjugated" double bonds give it the opposite biological e= ffect. Industrial linoleic acid from soybean and canola oil drives inflamma= tion. CLA from dairy and beef fights it. =E2=80=8A **************** Where to find it **************** CLA content varies dramatically depending on what the animal ate. * Grass-fed butter: 21-24 mg CLA per gram of fat * Conventional butter: 4-7 mg CLA per gram of fat * Grass-fed beef: 3-5x more CLA than grain-fed * Grass-fed cheese, yogurt, whole milk: all meaningful sources * Lamb: consistently high in CLA regardless of feed Grass-fed dairy has roughly 3 to 5 times more CLA than conventional. The re= ason is simple: ruminants eating fresh pasture produce more CLA in their gu= t during digestion. Grain-fed animals produce less. =E2=80=8A ********* The irony ********* The dietary guidelines that told Americans to replace butter with margarine= (hydrogenated seed oils) effectively removed the single richest dietary so= urce of CLA from the American diet. They replaced a fat that reverses arter= y damage with a fat that promotes inflammation. =C2=A0 This matters for the ongoing statin conversation too. If a naturally occurr= ing dairy fat can activate the same anti-inflammatory pathways (PPARs) that= pharmaceutical companies spend billions targeting, the question becomes: w= hy isn't anyone studying this in large-scale human trials? =E2=80=8A ***************** Important caveats ***************** This was a mouse study, not a human trial. ApoE-knockout mice develop ather= osclerosis far faster and differently than humans. CLA supplements (synthet= ic versions) have shown mixed results in human studies, and some CLA isomer= s may behave differently than the natural blend found in dairy fat. =C2=A0 The most consistent benefits come from the cis-9, trans-11 isomer, which is= the dominant form in grass-fed dairy. =C2=A0 The takeaway isn't "CLA cures heart disease." It's that the foods you were = told to avoid contain compounds with profound anti-inflammatory and anti-at= herosclerotic properties. And the foods you were told to eat instead contai= n none of them. =C2=A0 =E2=80=8A *********** Bottom Line *********** * CLA from dairy fat reversed pre-existing artery plaque in atherosclerosis= -prone mice * It works by reducing inflammation, clearing damaged cells, and activating= PPAR receptors * Grass-fed butter has 3-5x more CLA than conventional butter * Industrial linoleic acid (seed oils) and conjugated linoleic acid (dairy)= have opposite effects despite sharing a name * Replacing butter with margarine removed the best dietary source of CLA fr= om the American diet =E2=80=8A ******************************** Over 50 Brands Are Seed Oil Safe ******************************** ( https://www.seedoilscout.com/seedoilsafe ) Seed Oil Safe is the sign of approval from the Seed Oil Scout community, an= d we're pleased to announce over 50 brands are now Seed Oil Safe. 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The Fat in Butter that Reverses Artery Plaque=C2=A0

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Thrive Market is an on= line grocery store, delivering direct-to-door. Shop Seed Oil Safe = brands like Against the Grain, Fatworks, Gheelish, Ice Cream for Bears, Jes= se & Ben's, Kettle & Fire, Lovebird, NUFS, and SideDish. Get $20 off your first 3 orders,= plus a free $60 gift

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For decades, you were told to swap butter for margarine to protect your hea= rt. Butter clogs arteries. Margarine saves them. That was the pitch. But a = study published in Atherosclerosis found something the margarine l= obby never mentioned: a naturally occurring fat in butter and beef doesn't = just slow artery plaque. It reverses it.

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=E2=80=8A

The Study

Researchers at Trinity College Dublin took mice genetically engineered to d= evelop atherosclerosis (ApoE-knockout mice) and fed them a high-cholesterol= diet for eight weeks to build up artery plaque. Then they split the mice i= nto two groups: one continued on the same diet, the other got the same diet= plus 1% conjugated linoleic acid (CLA).


After eight more weeks, the CLA group showed almost complete resolution of = their pre-existing arterial lesions. Not a slowdown. Not a pause. Near-tota= l reversal.


The mechanism? CLA reduced macrophage buildup in artery walls, triggered pr= ogrammed cell death in damaged plaque tissue, and activated PPAR=CE=B1 and = PPAR=CE=B3 receptors, both of which suppress chronic inflammation. It also = inhibited platelet deposits on artery walls, a key driver of clot formation= =2E

(Toomey et al., 20= 06, Atherosclerosis - PubMed)

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What is CLA?

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Conjugated linoleic acid is a naturally occurring trans fat (the good kind)= produced in the stomachs of ruminant animals like cows, sheep, and goats. = It ends up in their milk and meat.

Here's the twist: CLA is technically a form of linoleic acid, the same omeg= a-6 fatty acid found in seed oils. But its molecular geometry is completely= different. The "conjugated" double bonds give it the opposite biol= ogical effect. Industrial linoleic acid from soybean and canola oil drives = inflammation. CLA from dairy and beef fights it.

= =E2=80=8A

Where to find it

CLA cont= ent varies dramatically depending on what the animal ate.

  • Grass-f= ed butter: 21-24 mg CLA per gram of fat
  • Convention= al butter: 4-7 mg CLA per gram of fat
  • Grass-fed be= ef: 3-5x more CLA than grain-fed
  • Grass-fed cheese,= yogurt, whole milk: all meaningful sources
  • Lamb: consistently high in CLA regardless of feed

Grass-fed dairy ha= s roughly 3 to 5 times more CLA than conventional. The reason is simple: ru= minants eating fresh pasture produce more CLA in their gut during digestion= =2E Grain-fed animals produce less.



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The irony

The dietary guidelines that told Americans to replace butter with margarine= (hydrogenated seed oils) effectively removed the single richest dietary so= urce of CLA from the American diet. They replaced a fat that reverses arter= y damage with a fat that promotes inflammation.

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This matters for the ongoing statin conversation too. If a naturally occurr= ing dairy fat can activate the same anti-inflammatory pathways (PPARs) that= pharmaceutical companies spend billions targeting, the question becomes: w= hy isn't anyone studying this in large-scale human trials?

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This was a mouse s= tudy, not a human trial. ApoE-knockout mice develop atherosclerosis far fas= ter and differently than humans. CLA supplements (synthetic versions) have = shown mixed results in human studies, and some CLA isomers may behave diffe= rently than the natural blend found in dairy fat.

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The most consisten= t benefits come from the cis-9, trans-11 isomer, which is the dominant form= in grass-fed dairy.

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The takeaway isn't= "CLA cures heart disease." It's that the foods you were told to av= oid contain compounds with profound anti-inflammatory and anti-atherosclero= tic properties. And the foods you were told to eat instead contain none of = them.

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Bottom L= ine

  • CLA from dairy fat reversed pre-existing artery p= laque in atherosclerosis-prone mice
  • It works by reducing inflammation, clearing damaged cells, and act= ivating PPAR receptors
  • Grass-fed butter has 3-5x more CLA than conv= entional butter
  • Industrial linoleic acid (seed oils) and conjugated= linoleic acid (dairy) have opposite effects despite sharing a name
    • Replacing butter with margarine removed the best dietary source of CLA fro= m the American diet
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Over = 50 Brands Are Seed Oil Safe

Seed Oil S= afe is the sign of approval from the Seed Oil Scout community, and= we're pleased to announce over 50 brands are now Seed Oil Safe. Open the App and find brands with no Seed Oils, artific= ial flavors, artificial dyes, artificial gums, artificial sweeteners, and o= ther unnecessary ingredients.

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  • Jesse & Ben's i= s now nationwide in Target and select Costco stores
  • Sport Drink launched a new flavor "S= port Energy"
  • FOND= launched their regenerative beef and chicken demi-glace and added duck fat= to their comprehensive line of tallows, lards, and bone broths available n= ationwide at Whole Foods and Sprouts in addition to many local grocers and = supermarkets.
  • Lovebird launched a new prot= ein cereal made with grass-fed whey and sweetened only with coconut sugar.= =C2=A0 Now available at Whole Foods!
  • = Born to Be Free launched a new Baby Diaper Cream with Tallow + Zinc: a cl= ean, non-toxic solution designed to protect, soothe, and support your baby= =E2=80=99s delicate skin without the chemicals found in conventional diaper= creams.
  • Alexandre Family Farm's A2 Regenerative = Organic Extended Shelf Life Chocolate Milk is available nationwide, with on= ly 4 ingredients (no stabilizers or gums)

Do you know a bran= d that should be verified Seed Oil Safe? Have them fill out our Brand Interest form or email us at partnerships@seedoilscout.com

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