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Very interesting theory. I suppose there's an infinite number of potential offenders, just in terms of "forever plastics" there's thousands I think.. can this ALDH pathway thing be measured?

I have never had bad inflammation in anything; but have always gained fat extremely easily. Maybe I'm just super good at locking stuff away in the vault haha.

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The best indicators for ALDH would be probably serum for HNE and also looking at your DNA.

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This is a fun theory, highly plausible. The questions would be:

1) how much of a causative effect does this have - 1%? 10%? 80%?

2) what would this predict that we can test?

3) do we need to add 'epicycles' to explain?

4) would this happen in the absence of PUFA?

4a) that is, is it challenged by noticing the very high levels of smoke exposure they were experiencing didn't cause any weight gain at all in the old siberian women who were too crippled or blind to leave the dwelling, and who sat inside in the smoke making leather goods by hand all day every day?

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One, it's going to depend on a person

Two, you could probably predict that removing the inputs and somebody's food noise would go away, and then adding them back would bring back the food noise.

Three not sure

Four, yes. In a modern environment, I think there are other things that can be classed as pollutants.

An old Siberian woman sat inside, likely doesn't have the other environmental pressures than smoke.

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Crucial.

A lot of the genius of Tim Ferriss slow carb diet is that it hits lots of theories of weight loss simultaneously, including detox.

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