Aaron Hartman, MD explains how healthy fats repair cell membranes and neurons. Ditch seed oils for olive oil, avocado oil, and grass-fed butter. Eat organ meats, egg yolks, and caviar for phospholipids, and use butyrate and bile acids to clear out damaged fats.
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Can you use healthy fats to heal your brain, to heal your body and to up level your health? That's what I want to talk about next. We've already talked about all the bad things with fats. Now I want to talk about lipid membrane medicine. It's some of the deepest medicine I've learned in the last five to ten years. Repairing cell wall membranes, repairing neurons. Repairing hormones which are coming from cholesterol molecules. Repairing estrogen which comes from a cholesterol molecule. Fixing cortisol, which comes from a cholesterol molecule. Fixing neurons which come from mitochondria that have kids with autism, phospholipids. How can I actually use fat as a drug, as a medicine to heal these brains? And that's what I want to talk about over the next few minutes. Give you some tools and some ideas to actually start using this to help healing your yourself, your kids, your families. If you have inflammation or whatever going on, the first thing is to remove all the bad stuff. I'm not going to blame this point because we all know we should remove the seed oils. Canola oil, sunflower. Sunflower oil is a little tricky, but in general remove it unless you 100% know it's it's clean sourced and it's not expelled. Replacing with healthy fats. Olive oil Extra virgin olive oil has to be extra virgin. Avocado oil needs to be from Mexico. Butter ghee come from grass fed grass finish. Sour coconut oil is actually pretty easy to get clean because there's not really a natural predator for coconuts and they're not sprayed a whole lot. Getting healthy fats and removing all the bad fats. The next thing is once you make your home a clean place, when you go out to eat, just start avoiding places that use seed oils. Look at ingredients, start moving those from your diet. Great. But the problem is these things are stuck in your cell walls and membranes. It's hard to get this stuff out of your body. How do you actually get the bad oral out? How do you do an oral change? Can you do an oral change in your body dance? Sure. Answer is yes. The first thing you want to do is start pouring in lots of healthy fats. These are healthy omega 3s, omega 6s, healthy saturated fats. Typically we'll actually measure these levels in patients to see and many patients actually have deficiencies in saturated fats. But start putting these into your system. Butter ghee there's one source for the omega 3s and 6s that we use called body balance oil. It's a 4 to 1 ratio of omega 6s to omega 3s. It's clean source, cold, cold processed. And we'll use that actually to help start putting one to two tablespoons of healthy fats into patients. The other thing is adding in phospholipids, healthy phospholipids. The primary source for these in nature is organ meats and egg yolks and caviar, which, you know, is always fun to try to figure out how to get that phosphatidylcholine. PC is a great source for these. Usually doing a tablespoon a day of this. And one of the first things people notice when they start using it is that their stool change and get kind of dark and it's literally washing out. Phospholipids actually act like soap on your cell wall membrane. So one of the things you'll notice is actually changing your stool for a couple of weeks because you're literally just washing out all the gunk and stuff. It's actually pretty profound. So putting in healthy fats and how do you up level that? You know you can start making smoothies. I start putting seeds, flax seeds, chia seeds, sunflower seeds are a great source for omega 3s into the smoothies. Eating more nuts, you know, half a cup of nuts, nuts to be a little heavier, particularly walnuts and omega 6s. Your seeds tend to be higher in your omega 3s, but just putting more of those into your diet, if you eat smoothies, you know, trying to get, you know, a quarter, half a cup of those consumed a day is a starter point. And the other thing is adding in extra virgin olive oil. Extra virgin olive oil, though not an essential fatty acid, it does increase bowel formation, the polyphenols or the healthy anti inflammatory molecules and do help with inflammation. And it does help move your bowel along and help extrude it out. So you can use that to help bowel flowing. The next thing is how do you burn off the bad fats? That's by adding in things like butyrate, tudka, torso, deoxycholic acid. These are things that actually been studied in patients with neurological issues. That actually an FDA approved drug to treat als, that's butyrate and that's phospholipid and butyrate combined together. And so adding these in can be helpful. To start, you put the healthy fats in, you start burning them off. That's the first part. Then adding in binders. One of the things your body is really good at doing is recycling stuff. So if you add binders in nature's binders, fiber. But on top of that, you can use active art, charcoal, clay, other binders all bind. Bile, bile acid sequester into the most powerful ones. Those are your medications like colostiamine or alcohol. They tend to be very, very constipating, so a lot of people don't tolerate them. But your goal is to pour healthy f fats in, burn off the bad fats, bind stuff in your guts, you poop it out. So if you're not, you know, one of the best ways to do this is actually with fiber, shooting for that 40, 60 grams a day. If you're not getting it, add more fiber in, you're still not getting it and still having issues adding some binders and board. That's the basic kind of concept to washing out these bad fats. But the reality is you still need to consume large amounts of healthy fats. Don't be afraid of butter and ghee. Don't be afraid of organ meat. Don't be afraid of fatty fish like salmon. Putting these in your diet routinely, these things meet huge with kids. I like to do testing. I think that's important because if you, if you know someone is actually low in omega 3, omega 6, they're low in C15 or saturated fats, they're high in trans fats, you actually will pick it up sometimes on fatty acid testing. Their Omega 6 levels are really, really high, then that will change the food you introduce to help with this whole concept of lipid membrane medicine. But it's really not a complicated concept. And doing that alone, I've seen people have profound change in their health, particularly when you're adding phospholipids like phosphatidylcholine. Those are the main ways to. Lipid medicine can help flush things out. But again, removing the exposure, putting the healthy fats, buying the stuff to poop it out, and then burning off the bad fats. Hopefully this information was helpful. If you have additional questions about seed oils, their detrimental effect on your health, and how you can actually use food and healthy fats as a medicine to help heal your body, ask us wherever you're watching us and we'll try to answer those in our feeds or on the podcast when time allows. Take care and we'll talk to you soon.
