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12 May 2025 · 0 min

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Stephanie Venn-Watson explains that C15, a fatty acid found mainly in whole-fat dairy, is essential for human health but disappearing from modern diets. Low-fat trends have cut our intake, and she suggests supplementation may now be necessary to maintain adequate levels.

Questions this video answers

Dairy fat.

"Not only active, but essential."

The removal of whole-fat milk and butter from the diet (recommendations to stop drinking whole milk and stop eating butter).

You're talking about the changes that have happened in the modern world. Where did we originally get C15 from as humans? So for us.
Our primary source of C15 is dairy fat. That is by far our primary.
Source of C15. Nobody knew it was active.
Not only active, but essential.
Right?
Meaning these rare criteria of a nutrient that our bodies must.
Have to stay healthy. But then what did we do? We took whole.
Fat milk out.
Of our diet. They said the best.
Way to decrease those saturated fats are to stop drinking whole fat milk and stop eating butter.
I wonder where that comes from since milk is such a big part of an Ayurvedic lifestyle. But this isn't to say today that we should all go out and start pounding gallons of milk, right? Because the quality of the milk that we're drinking today is very different than what our mothers and grandmothers had access to. So this is where supplementing is really key.