After reading the first two abstracts, my thought was what the third study found.  That is, the long-lived animals are more resistant to omega 3 and/or 6 PUFA tissue incorporation.  As I said, if you look at the leading killers of humans in "advanced" nations, it's cancer and heart disease.  Heart disease is caused by oxidized LDL, which gets oxidized because it's got too much omega 6 PUFAs in it.   Most cancers are caused by an irritation, leading to AA metabolites being generated.  Free radical damage is probably overemphasized by some scientists; they are not considering the "inflammatory" nature of the "disearses" that kill most people.  I was saying to someone the other day that if you look at people who probably did a lot of drugs when they werre younger, that their skin looks different from most peoples.  My guess is that at least some of their tissues have sustained tremendous free radical damage, yet they are still alive, while someone live my grandfather (on the other side of the family) died in his early 60s of "heart disease" during the great "epidemic" (early 1960s).  He did not drink to excess or do anything else really unhealthy, except for his diet (he ate too much - a great deal of meat, and lived a sedentary life). 

 

As to starting a new thread, I would prefer to keep it here, since I don't know that there's much more to say.  I'd like to see more Mead acid studies, but that requires feeding animals or people a different diet for quite a while (or raising the animals on a diet that is not considered "normal").  Otherwise, my reading of the evidence as a whole is that much of the ill health in "advanced" nations is the result of AA in peoples' cells, rather than the natural Mead acid.