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Transcript:
hi everyone dr susan brown at alkaline
for life
today we're going to talk a little bit
about fatty acids
and we're going to talk about
particularly essential fatty acids
these are the fatty acids that we cannot
produce within our body and we must
consume them
just like we must to consume vitamins
and minerals we must consume
fats certain fats in order to continue
our survival as a human being
these fatty acids are very important
they play roles in
cell membrane structure they're
important to the development and
functioning of the brain and the nervous
system
they're important for hormone production
they're important for the transport of
cholesterol from the body
they're important for hair skin and
nails the liver function
and even immune function is really
dependent on these essential fats
and most of all many of the essential
fats particularly the omega-3 fats from
fish oils are very
anti-inflammatory and as you know
all disease has an inflammatory basis
so the essential fats are two families
omega-3s
and the omega-6s the omega-3s
we commonly think of as the fish oils in
fact they're some of the most
important omega-3s are the fish oils
however omega-3s are also available in
certain plants like chi
and walnuts and flax good to note that
those omega-3s from plants however
cannot be converted into epa and dha
very easily
epa and dha are the essential fats
from fish and that's actually the
product that we probably most likely
need to consume
the omega-6 family we consume a lot of
omega-6 oils
these are the plant oils from safflower
sunflower
corn soy the omega-6s we take a lot of
them the omega-3s we don't get enough of
in fact as an anthropologist i can tell
you that
in times evolutionary times
in our historic past we consumed a lot
of omega-3 fats
because the animals we ate ate grass
and they with that grass produced these
omega-3 fats
the epa and the dha today even if you
get eggs from a chicken
that is scratching around in the yard
they're going to have more epa and dha
than
farm commercial eggs
so we consume far too little omega-3
fats
far too many omega-6 fats and
particularly
this reflects itself in the inflammatory
response
many times the omega-6 oils that we
consume today actually cause
inflammation the omega-3 oils have to
help to protect against inflammation so
let's dive a little bit deeper into the
omega-3 fats particularly epa and dha
as you will notice in the blog the blog
that's accompanying this
this this little chip the omega-3 fats
play
many many roles particularly essential
benefits for the heart
to help with insulin sensitivity and
they also even help with
anxiety and mood and of course omega-3
fats have been used by many
to correct this dry eye syndrome for
example
omega-3 fats are strong
anti-inflammatory agents and therefore
they're very successful
also in bone health studies in spain
show that
osteopenic women who had higher omega-3
fats in the diets
had better bone density so let's talk
about the proper dosing of omega-3 fats
a good dose of omega-3 fats is 3 000
milligrams a day that is
three thousand milligrams a day of when
you combine epa
and dha the two major omega-3 fats we're
interested in
when you combine those two together you
want to get 3000 a day
when you have this effective dose you
find very good benefits on bone health
on eye health on heart health all the
parameters
where all the omega-3 facts are
important you do better if you get 3 000
milligrams a day
and the form of omega-3 fats like i
mentioned you
we need to use directly epa and dha
itself because the body does not convert
very much of the plant omega-3 fats
into epa and dha and the effective
agents are the epa in dha as far as the
omega-3 fats go
so you want about 3 000 milligrams epa
and dha together
now you might say well what about eating
salmon or other fatty fish
and it's true those fish can offer a
nice amount
