For years, Mrs Udoka’s joints burned. Mornings began with stiff fingers; evenings ended with knees that ached like old hinges.

From the hospital, “Age,” they said. But at 32, she refused to believe it.

Then, on a sleepless night, she fell into a rabbit hole: studies linking seed oils—soybean, corn, sunflower, and all those unhealthy oils—to inflammation.

The very oils she’d cook stew with, drizzled on salads, baked into cookies.

It is cheap, convenient, and everywhere.

Yet their omega-6 fats, their very nature she read from this journey to wellness, were like gasoline on her body’s hidden fire.

She cleared her kitchen.

Out! went the plastic jugs of “vegetable” oil she had.

In! came cold-pressed coconut oil, grass-fed ghee, palm fruit oil, lard, suet and a dusty bottle of extra virgin olive oil her mom had gifted her years ago. She was skeptical but desperate, so she swapped.

Breakfasts, sizzled in grass-fed butter now. Roasted veggies glistened with avocado oil. Even her chai tasted richer with a dash of avocado.

Slowly, the fire dimmed. Her hands were unclenched.
Stairs lost their menace.

One evening, as she fried her fish on medium heat—this time in beef tallow—her mom called. “You glow better and look stronger,” she said. Mrs Udoka laughed with grease of the tallow on her fingers.

Pain, a ghost in my bones is no more she said.

The question for today now is, are you still using those seeds oils because they are cheap?

Stop playing Ludo with your health and change once and for all otherwise, you'd wither like a flower. Mark my words.