Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

The Fat You’ve Been Missing—And Why Your Body’s Craving It

11 May 2025 · 0 min

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Dolphins are developing insulin resistance and fatty liver disease linked to a deficiency of C15, a compound that keeps cell membranes stable. Stephanie Venn-Watson explains how this deficiency triggers chronic inflammation and metabolic syndrome in both dolphins and humans, and suggests the damage might be reversible.

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May 11, 2025

This is like the incredible aspect of modern day medicine, right? So here's something in nature that is incredibly bioavailable for these dolphins. Would you say, like, is it a modern day health problem that these dolphins now are then starting to get sick? How does a dolphin have metabolic syndrome?
And that was the question. So this showed up. We started seeing this syndrome pop up where it was this, you know, insulin resistance, fatty liver disease, metabolic syndrome that we're seeing. That's where we Learned that nutritional C15 defic deficiencies are causing metabolic syndrome. So we have too little of it. Our cells become fragile, become weak, sets up lipid peroxidation, chronic inflammation.
I think something that's important to point out is you said C15 deficiency. If it's a deficiency, deficiencies can be healed.