part5

Transcribed by sweetly (http://www.raypeatforum.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2625)

Andrew: Blah, blah, blah. Here's the number, call in.

Caller 1: My friend has problems digesting fat due to heridetary gallbladder difficulties. Are there any enyzmes or supplements that would help to digest fat and red meat, pork, etc, not so much with fish or poultry?

Peat: There's a great tendency of hypothyroid people to have gallbladder disease and trouble digesting fats and the best thing to do for gallblader disease is to improve your thyroid function and avoiding unsaturated fats in all forms is very important for thyroid function. The myth tells us that the only difference between the unsaturated and saturated fatty acids is their shape and they claim that has to do with the mobility of the fat in membranes and so on but really the absolute difference between saturated and unsaturated is the way they bind to proteins and since the basic framework of the cell is protein, the saturated fats bind properly to the protein and the unsaturated fats don't bind the same and bind to other proteins that they shouldn't bind to and the protein that transports the thyroid hormone happens to uh, it has sites that associate with the double bonds in the thyroid hormone moceule and the unsaturated fats bind to those same sites on the transport protein so that the protein can't carry thyroid, it carries unsaturated fats instead and so the...

Caller 1: *Rudely interrupts Peat* Well that's interesting to know and maybe what I could suggest to him is maybe what could be a cascading difficulty that organiates in the thyroid and maybe prevents the, am I understanding correctly that it prevents the gallbladder from maybe properly producing enyzmes nescessary and of that metabolism of fat?
Peat: Right.