It’s mostly only polyunsaturated fatty acids and highly-unsaturated fatty acids that cause over-alkalinity.

Saturated fats are mostly neutral except during imbalances, e.g., starvation ketosis, dietetic ketosis, diabetic ketoacidosis, alcoholic ketoacidosis, etc.

Excess palmitic acid is an exception to the rule because it’s capable of provoking an adrenal defense response.

PUFAs and HUFAs sometimes have therapeutic value for children and those who make it past 60 revolutions around the Sun.

Middle-aged people often die from being “too old.”

Children and the elderly tend to die from being “too young.”

“It was especially in advanced stages that definite groupings of patterns with opposite characteristics could be recognized. They corresponded to two fundamental offbalances which we have called ‘Type A’ and ‘Type D.’ (‘A’ for anoxybiosis, ‘D’ for dysoxybiosis which represent the principal manifestations of oxygen metabolism in a phase of these offbalances.)”