Dietary Fat

Macronutrient

Forms the micelles that carry the fat-soluble vitamins across the gut wall. Without fat in the meal, A, D, E, K and the carotenoids largely pass through.

Relationships

6 connections

Dietary Fat binds

Beta-Glucan

The soluble fiber in oats and barley. Binds bile acids in the gut, which is the mechanism behind its effect on LDL.

Dietary Fat enhances absorption of

Beta-Carotene

Plant pigment the body converts to retinol as needed. Conversion is inefficient and varies a lot between people, and it needs fat in the meal to be absorbed at all.

Vitamin A

Needed for vision, immune function and steroidogenesis. Measured two ways in the food data, as retinol activity equivalents and as international units.

Vitamin D

Acts as a hormone, despite the vitamin name. Governs calcium absorption and a wide set of immune genes.

Vitamin E

Chain-breaking antioxidant inside cell membranes. Regenerated by vitamin C after it does its job.

Vitamin K

Activates the proteins that clot blood and the ones that steer calcium into bone.

Beyond this page

Dietary Fat also connects to 1 entry in the applied modules, covering supplements, compounds, hormones and food sources. Those carry the mechanism and the evidence tier behind each link, and they are part of client coaching.

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