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What Is an Essential Fatty Acid and What Do Dolphins Have to Do With the Newest One? #WeGotGoals by aSweatLife
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- Fitness
As a lifelong learner, I feel pretty fortunate that I get to interview smart people, innovators, and inventors and say, "teach me something."And this week, the big question was about Essential Fatty Acids. What makes a fatty acid essential? Spoiler: you have to ingest it and your body needs it for important functions. And what about saturated vs. unsaturated fats?We dig in with the co-founders of Fatty15, Stephanie and Eric Venn-Watson, on the discovery of the essential fatty acid you'll find in the Fatty15 capsules: C15:0.And the best part? Stephanie was studying dolphins when she made this discovery. Resources: * Fatty15 (https://fatty15.com/): the company that Eric and Stephanie co-founded* Stephanie Venn-Watson's TED Talk about her discovery that C15:0 is an essential fatty acid. (https://www.ted.com/talks/stephanie_venn_watson_dvm_mph_save_the_dolphins_save_the_world)* From The Washington Post: (https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2023/nonalcoholic-fatty-liver-disease-kids/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template) mounting research that C15:0 deficiency is linked to diseases like Fatty Liver Disease* My first interview with Stephanie and Eric (https://asweatlife.com/2023/11/fatty15/)
As a lifelong learner, I feel pretty fortunate that I get to interview smart people, innovators, and inventors and say, "teach me something."And this week, the big question was about Essential Fatty Acids. What makes a fatty acid essential? Spoiler: you have to ingest it and your body needs it for important functions. And what about saturated vs. unsaturated fats?We dig in with the co-founders of Fatty15, Stephanie and Eric Venn-Watson, on the discovery of the essential fatty acid you'll find in the Fatty15 capsules: C15:0.And the best part? Stephanie was studying dolphins when she made this discovery. Resources: * Fatty15 (https://fatty15.com/): the company that Eric and Stephanie co-founded* Stephanie Venn-Watson's TED Talk about her discovery that C15:0 is an essential fatty acid. (https://www.ted.com/talks/stephanie_venn_watson_dvm_mph_save_the_dolphins_save_the_world)* From The Washington Post: (https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2023/nonalcoholic-fatty-liver-disease-kids/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template) mounting research that C15:0 deficiency is linked to diseases like Fatty Liver Disease* My first interview with Stephanie and Eric (https://asweatlife.com/2023/11/fatty15/)
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