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polsci-080721-fats — Ray Peat Clip

This curated audio highlight features Ray Peat speaking in the interview polsci-080721-fats. The excerpt begins at 22:20 and runs for 1 minute 12 seconds.

There have been a few other isolated studies through the '50s and '60s. Usually one patient would get eczema, and that would get published as proof that the essential fatty acids deficiency disease existed. But at that time, when they were giving a fat-free diet, they were often giving intravenous feeding, and their concept of complete intravenous nutrition until well into the 1970s was radically deficient in several of the essential known nutrients. Zinc, for example, wasn't included. And a biotin deficiency can produce some of the related symptoms, and when your metabolic rate is high and you metabolize more protein, that's one of the deficiencies.