A long term update. Also - OmegaQuant is potentially useless for LA measurement during weight loss?
I've been around this sub for a few years, and have avoided LA pretty strictly. I cook with butter, animal fat, avocado oil, or palm oil. I don't buy packaged foods that contain seed oils. I don't eat pork, eggs, or chicken unless it's from Nourish Food Club (low pufa animals). I rarely eat out because I have celiac disease as well. I make no effort to avoid MUFA though.
I lost about 80 pounds over this time. Maybe 20 of that was due to HCLFLP, and the rest was with Retatrutide. I've speculated with some regulars here about how Reta might be a pufa depletion hack. It's known for rapid weight loss without necessarily tanking your appetite since it also increases lipolysis.
I quit Reta about about 2 months ago, and I was really looking forward to seeing an improved LA level, but it went UP slightly? Granted, I have regained some weight in that time, and maybe eaten some conventional chicken, but nothing wild.
Then I noticed that the LA measurement they do is not RBC based like the omega 3 one. It's whole blood, which would be highly correlated with recent diet. Or, in my case, correlated with the historical body fat I was liberating. It seems that this was potentially a useless experiment. I'm sorry I don't have any good proof of a pufa depletion hack for my fellow peptide experimenters.
Despite this measurement not saying much, I strongly suspect that I have depleted a lot of pufa because my health is dramatically better. I don't have a variety of autoimmune/inflammatory issues that I used to. Arthritis pain is gone, eczema is gone, menstrual cycles are like clockwork, mental health is drastically improved.
I think the number is useless, but you're welcome to add my data to the database.