Aaron Hartman argues that processed dietary fats like trans fats and seed oils get incorporated into brain cell membranes, impairing energy production and cognition. He says omega-3 supplementation can reduce inflammation and help with traumatic brain injury and arthritis.
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Most Americans have plastic in their brains. I'm not talking about microplastics, by the way. I'm talking about hardened oils like trans fats, expeller pesto oils, seed oils. All these bad fats that you get from processed foods are partially plasticized. And when these get in your cell walls and cell membrane in your mitochondria, they actually affect energy production. They can result in not thinking as clearly. It affects how viruses actually spread in your body. There's things called lipid rafts, which are a dysfunctional fat from things you eat, inflammation in your body that actually makes your cells get stuck together and it impedes your immune system fighting against viruses in your cells so they can jump from cell to cell to cell and bypass your immune system. So all of a sudden, healthy fats. Lipid medicine is what it's called. You can use these as a way to help improve your immune system. That's one of the reasons why Omega 3s, for example, can be used to help decrease inflammation and traumatic brain injury. They can also be used to help inflammation from arthritis.