How should you use linoleic acid?
Linoleic acid can be used morning or night and can be combined safely with most other ingredients. However, it’s important to note that it isn’t meant to be a stand-alone ingredient in your skincare… specifically vitamin E.
Unfortunately, linoleic acid has a short shelf life of between three and six months before it becomes unstable and less effective. For this reason, it is often combined with high levels of vitamin E in skincare formulas, which helps to stabilise the acid and prolong its efficacy.
While it’s still unclear why low levels of linoleic acid are related to hair loss so it makes senses to use products laced with vitamin F to create a healthy environment for your hair follicles to grow.
Linoleic acid is a type of fat, or fatty acid, found in vegetable oils, nuts, seeds and animal products.
An essential omega-6 fatty acid, linoleic acid is required by the human body in small amounts.
Too much, however, can be detrimental to your health.
Linoleic acid (18:2 n-6) is an essential polyunsaturated omega-6 fatty acid.
Linoleic acid is for most of us, the most highly consumed polyunsaturated fat in our diet.
Linoleic acid is found in large quantities in vegetable oils.
You can find linoleic acid in food sources like:
Fats and Oils
Nuts and Seeds
Dressings and Condiments
Dairy and Egg Products
Sauces and Gravies
Spices and Herbs
Avoiding industrial seed oils, due to their high linoleic acid (LA) content, can go a long way toward safeguarding your health.
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Thank you …Examples of cooking oils to avoid include canola, corn, rapeseed, and cottonseed and soybean oil. As a general rule, anything over 10 grams of LA a day is likely to cause problems
For cooking, excellent substitutions include butter, tallow, ghee and organic coconut oil.
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I believe are some of the most important dietary and lifestyle strategies to safeguard your health, starting with avoiding seed oils (also commonly referred to as vegetable oils).
Examples of cooking oils to avoid include canola, corn, rapeseed, and cottonseed and soybean oil.
The reason for this recommendation is these kinds of industrial seed oils contain high amounts of a harmful omega-6 fat called linoleic acid (LA).
LA is not dangerous in and of itself. The danger is really in the dosing. Most people consume up to 10 times more LA than they need, and the excessive amount is what causes the problem.
LA is referred to as an essential fat, which is true. You do need some. But it’s present in nearly all foods — including whole foods but processed foods and condiments in particular — so there’s virtually no way for you to become deficient.
In all likelihood, you’re getting far more than your body needs, and in excess, LA creates free radicals that cause oxidative stress and damage your DNA, cell membranes and mitochondria. In this way, they contribute to chronic degenerative diseases of all kinds and premature aging.
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How to Reduce LA in Your Diet
As a general rule, anything over 10 grams of LA a day is likely to cause problems.
The lower the better, but a reasonable goal for most people is to get your level below 5 grams per day.
How do you cut seed oils out of your diet?
Top culprits to minimize or eliminate include:
The body uses linoleic acid to create two different types of essential lipids. The first of these are ceramides, which are like the cement that hold your cells together in the outermost layer of skin. “The body needs omega-6 to make ceramides, which help the skin to retain moisture and prevent it from becoming dehydrated while fending off UV rays, germs and air pollutants.
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What are the benefits of linoleic acid for skin?
Alongside linoleic acid’s obvious anti-inflammatory properties, other benefits include improved cell turnover, so skin looks brighter, and a stronger skin barrier. To reiterate, the latter is especially important because when all the microscopic tears in your skin barrier are filled in, it’s like a burly bouncer that locks in moisture and prevents aggressors from sneaking in.
Likewise, there’s a proven link between low levels of linoleic acid, a disrupted skin barrier and breakouts.
People that are acne prone have been shown to have low levels of linoleic acid in the lipids on the surface of their skin,
What skin types are good candidates for linoleic acid?
Generally speaking, linoleic acid is tolerated by all skin types. Anyone who wants to stave off dry, rough skin or prevent red patches from blooming across their face as a result of irritation would benefit from adding a skincare product laced in vitamin F to their daily arsenal.
But linoleic acid is particularly helpful for those with inflammatory conditions such as dermatitis, psoriasis and rosacea, not to mention acne sufferers. While rosehip oil is often recommended for treating spot-prone skin and stubborn acne scars.
There are two major types of rosehip oil used in skincare derived from either the rosa rubiginosa or rosa canina plants.
While both oils contain fatty acids (linoleic, linolenic and oleic), which have moisturising properties, the oil from rosa rubiginosa may be better for those who are acne prone as there is a higher ratio of linoleic to oleic acid.”
In other words, rosa rubiginosa oil can prevent future breakouts by balancing your skin’s oil production as well as dial down the size and angry redness from cystic shiners lurking underneath your skin.
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