Palmitoleate omega 7 lipokine
Palmitoleic acid is responsible for keeping people healthy (lipokine) and for the smell of old people (nonenal). Overproduction of this lipid by blocking uptake of fats results in resistance to type II diabetes and atherosclerosis. If you listen to the commercials on television, you know that there are two sources of fats/cholesterol; you either make it in your cells or take from your diet. Recent research shows that mice that have been genetically modified to lack cytoplasmic lipid carriers, can’t store dietary fat, so they make more of their own lipids. Specifically, they make more palmitoleic acid (C16:1n7). By U.S. standards, those defective mice are very healthy. It turns out that palmitoleic acid acts as a lipid hormone that communicates between fat tissue and other organs, and maintains a healthy metabolic balance. Lipids are hydrophobic and require protein carriers to be moved from their source, such as the intestines, through the blood and to be offloaded into tissues. M...