dificult to obtain fatty acid

[asecin]

coolio so basically its impossible to get that fatty acid from naturally sources no matter what. unless of course u take supplements but most of them are always a bit shady.

 

[Coolio]

I'm sure it's possible for a company that already takes mixed fatty acids from animal or plant sources and fractions it out into its components. It might be possible to pull nervonic acid from the current salmon oil production waste stream, or it might be possible to make it synthetically, and still be economical. I don't think you can make it at home.

 

[TheAzo]

I agree - it's not practical to prepare at home. Anything that produces it will produce it mixed with other things, and yeasts aren't known for producing large amounts of fatty acids.... TBH your best bet might be cutting the nerves out of animals and removing the fatty acids with an organic solvent, which i don't think any of us, yourself included, would be a fan of. Otherwise if you can get it at all you'll have to separate it from a bunch of other crap that's very similar to it.

However, since you can just buy the stuff, it's pretty much academic.

 

[negrogesic]

negrogesic, there's no need to limit Advanced Drug Discussion to recreational drugs. Every fatty acid is a drug in its own right. Nervonic acid is theorized to be an endogenous ligand at the PPAR-a receptor. It circulates in the blood either as a free fatty acid or as nervonoyl-CoA, not becoming bound up in triglyceride form like many other fatty acids.

I said "where drugs (typically recreational, but not exclusively) are discussed (with some interesting exceptions - this thread not being one of them). The thread was poorly written, didn't even have a proper a title, and the question could be answered by simple research.

There are plenty of times when someone asks a interesting non-drug related quesiton, but as others have affirmed, this is not one of those instances.


And once again, it can be purchased in its pure form from supply houses.

 

[indelibleface]

I wonder if supplementing with this decreases the risk of demyelination diseases to any appreciable extent. But if not, hey, it could be the next new age remedy that goes nowhere and does nothing, just like colloidal silver or Laetrile.

 

[TheAzo]

It's used as a supplement by people with MS. I don't know if it works.

And colloidal silver does something.... it turns your skin blue if you take enough, marking you as a nutjob so everyone knows to ignore you.

 

[asecin]

I wonder if supplementing with this decreases the risk of demyelination diseases to any appreciable extent. But if not, hey, it could be the next new age remedy that goes nowhere and does nothing, just like colloidal silver or Laetrile.

yeh thats what i was asking. i wonder if they is any research or knowledge about this.