Peter Brandt wrote:

> Reading this one could get the wrongful impression that you believed
> there were no benefits to AA.  ;-)

AA is important when the brain is built up and for making the "bad"
prostaglandins (which are only contextually bad).

How can AA be short in supply? When omega-6 is short of supply, or the
major enzymes d6d and d5d are out of work (due to alcohol etc and
competition  by SFA/MUFA or omega-3 LNA).
For alcoholics, sugar addicts and people eating very very few LA.

However thinking and reading about the eicosanoid topic over the years I
come to the conclusion that overabundant AA is a main culprit.
There must be means, how some persons overcome a high *dietary* AA
intake. Todd cited a study - you can find it in the archives - of a man
constantly eating lots of eggs (which are AA bombs). Maybe that man had
a strong enzyme system which elongates and desaturates AA further and
keeps it away from PG synthesis. Or the enzymes which make PG (more
exact eicosanoids) out of AA were out of action or under good controll
in this man.

For the majority of people the best effort to avoid bad PG is (not
considering aspirin and cortisol) to keep the d5d pathway low.

Here is the point where the anti-inplammatory and anticancer properties
of turmeric (cucurmin) and sesame (sesamin) show up (take a medline
search in turmeric).
This is IMO also the main benefit of taking LNA (instead of EPA) since
it draws d5d onto it (making EPA).
While the action of EPA is reported to just cut down the release of new
AA from red blood cells.

regards

Amadeus