LoLa Oil
The world's greatest cooking oil for humans. A perfect blend of 75% macadamia oil and 25% flavorless coconut oil. 5 times less linoleic acid (omega-6 PUFAs) than avocado oil. Burns cleaner.
Why LoLa?
Seed oils kill you slowly due to high levels of inflammatory linoleic acids (20-65%). In the short term before they kill you, seed oils make people fat, ugly, and lazy. Best to avoid them!Although solid fats such us beef tallow, butter, ghee, coconut, and even palm kernel oil are all very low in linoleic acid, most liquid oils are not. Avocado oil at around 15% linoleic acid is closer to rapeseed/canola oil than any of those, yet many people want a liquid oil that can be conveniently poured.COMPOSITION & FEATURES
LoLa blends coconut oil into macadamia oil to bring down linoleic acid levels to a mere 2-3%, on par with butter and beef tallow. This also boosts the levels of clean burning saturated fats that are essential to hormonal health. While 30% saturated fat doesn't match beef tallow's 45% or butter in the low 60s, it is the perfect level to impart a superior taste when cooking or frying, while retaining a light mouthfeel and a neutral flavor (refined coconut oil avoids the low smoke point and flavor of unrefined coconut oil). The ultra low linoleic acid levels mean that thermal stability is superior to seed oils or even avocado oil -- there is a lot more to handling heat than single number for "smoke point," which makes seed oils look misleadingly good, all while toxic compounds form.
Of course, everyone knows coconut oil is the ultimate source for MCTs (medium chain triglycerides), which the liver turns directly into ketone bodies people turn to for mental clarity, energy, and long term cognitive function. However, you might not know that macadamias are not your basic monounsaturated fat rich oils, as they have notably high (15-20%) levels of palmitoleic acid, colloquially known as omega-7, which is likely an end product inhibitor of something called SCD1. Why does this matter? Well, SCD1 is responsible for desaturating fats in the body, and low saturated fat oils that are high in linoleic acid or even oleic-rich olive oils and high levels of SCD1 may play a central role in lethargy and obesity, in which case, lower levels of SCD1 may be a key pathway to better overall metabolic health.
ROBUST VERIFICATION
Finally, although you cannot fry or cook with olive oil at high temperatures, olive oils have a wide range of linoleic acid from as low as 4% to over 20% in some varieties, which means they can be as bad as canola oil in that regard! We have found zero brands that actually publish this data point, let alone detailed test reports. That's a major problem because starting an oil brand these days is about as easy as starting a t-shirt business, so even if you think a brand seems trustworthy, it's their suppliers you really have to worry about. With cheap seed oils having a wholesale cost 10x less than olive oils, adulterating olive oil with 20% canola oil might mean doubling profits on 20% margins, so you need to look incentives and verification. Olive oil being similar to canola oil means a supplier can pretend it has to do with variety rather than fraud. The various little features we mentioned (ultra low linoleic, MCTs, omega-7) means that we have a multi-factorial approach to detecting any sort of shenanigans.We will publish 100% of test reports as-delivered to us from the labs we work with on every batch we sell, something that most companies do not even if they have tens of millions in revenue. The tests cost a few hundred dollars, an we will most certainly test dozens of other brands and publish those results -- after all, we will have to do something to attract some attention to this text heavy, minimalist website.
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About
LoLa Oil is being built by a man who previously helped make some of the world's most advanced weapons systems a bit scarier. The sort you don't hear about being used in the news. Now he wants to take on a different sort of enemy, an illegible enemy at the root of human suffering, and it begins with optimizing the human. When you shop LoLa, you support the critical path of civilization.We blend, bottle, and ship from Denver, Colorado, reaching most people in the US in 2-3 days with ground shipping.
We will offer low linoleic oil blends to restaurants as well once we have enough traction to have a high enough density of customers in various cities to efficiently deliver to restaurants at a low enough price. Stay tuned.