Some cooking oils make your body sick by causing swelling and hurting your insides.
Scientific Claim
Consumption of industrially processed seed oils induces systemic inflammation and gastrointestinal damage.
Original Statement
“Certain cooking fats that are marketed as healthy or safe are actually working against your biology every single time you use them. We're talking inflammation, gut damage, and worse.”
Context Details
Domain
gut-health
Population
human
Subject
industrially processed seed oils
Action
induces
Target
systemic inflammation and gastrointestinal damage
Intervention Details
Evidence from Studies
Supporting (2)
Pumpkin seed oil was shown to calm down body inflammation, even when the rats were eating a bad diet — meaning not all seed oils cause inflammation.
Technical explanation
This paper directly tests pumpkin seed oil — an industrially processed seed oil — in a rodent model and finds it reduces systemic inflammation and oxidative stress caused by a high-cholesterol diet. It directly contradicts the assertion by demonstrating that a seed oil can mitigate, not induce, systemic inflammation.
A compound from tea seeds stopped body-wide inflammation in mice — so seed oils aren't always bad.
Technical explanation
This paper isolates a compound from tea seed (a seed oil source) and demonstrates it reduces systemic inflammation in mice induced by LPS — a known inflammatory trigger. It directly contradicts the assertion by showing a seed-derived compound actively suppresses systemic inflammation.