The Simplest Way to Balance the Omega-6 to Omega-3 Ratio | DrEricBergDC

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now balancing out your omega-6 to your

omega-3 fats can be a bit complex so i’m

going to show you a real simple way to

do it

but why do you need to do it well

because we have a big problem now with

people that are getting way too much of

the omega-6 fatty acids and definitely

not enough of the omega-3 fatty acids

the ideal ratio of omega-6 to omega-3

fatty acids should be one to one the

average person in america

is like 20 to 1. because take a look at

the seed oils that’s 70 to 1. potato

chips 60 to 1

grains 20 to 1.

chicken

17

to

grain fed beef nine to one then we have

the grass-fed beef which is only two to

one then we have pasture eggs look at

this three to one but commercial eggs 29

to one why

because they’re eating the grains

okay then we have leafy greens one to

one

wild game is three to one and fish is

one to one so what is so bad about these

omega-6 fatty acids

well one thing among many other things

is that the omega-6 fatty acids can

invade your cell membranes and be part

of your cell membrane okay

so this this double layer of fat in your

cell membranes

is vitally important especially in the

cerebral cortex

in the retina

in the testes and even sperm and so the

richest source of dhea which is an

omega-3 fatty acids is in your cerebral

cortex of your brain the part of the

brain that helps you think

and make logical decisions

and supposedly it does a lot of other

things

and but the retina too the retina needs

this dha

you have a lot of dha in your retina and

the testes and the sperm so if you’re

deficient in omega-3 fatty acids

so your your brain’s not going to work

that well okay you’re not going to be

able to see as well you’re not going to

be able to produce testosterone as much

and you’re probably going to be

infertile but other than that you’re

perfectly fine

with too much omega-6 and not enough

omega-3

your red blood cells become stiff okay

they cannot travel and bend and get

through the capillaries

and so they plug things up your blood

becomes thicker

you become more obese especially with

your visceral fat you develop insulin

resistance in diabetes

omega-6 is very pro-inflammatory so

you’re going to have more inflammation

and more risk for thrombus which is a

clot there’s more of a tendency to get a

vaso-spasm in your coronary artery which

leads to a heart attack and there’s

definitely more vasoconstriction

okay the simplest way to solve this

problem is just to increase your omega-3

fatty acids because if you just cut down

the omega-6 fatty acids

without increasing the omega-3 fatty

acids it’s not going to work

so i would start by just increasing your

omega-3 make it simple you have a couple

choices you can either do fish oil or

cod liver oil the advantage of cod liver

oil is that you not only get the omega-3

fatty acids but you also get additional

vitamin a and vitamin d

but of course in addition to this i

would also recommend

several other things like number one

replace your salad dressings with olive

oil now be careful when you buy olive

oil

at the grocery store because there’s a

lot of fake olive oil i would say eighty

percent of all the olive oil sold

especially the cheap stuff is fake when

you taste olive oil it should have a

very distinct

taste that

gives a little tickle in the back of

your throat when you consume it it

shouldn’t be bland because the fake

olive oil is basically just canola oil

or corn oil or some other oil that we’re

trying to get rid of so that’s just a

point about that

number two

when you’re at a restaurant

don’t consume any of the fried foods

simply because they’re going to use corn

oil canola cottonseed oil

what else soy oil things like that so

i’d really make sure that the food that

i get at a restaurant is does not have

any of that stuff number three

consume fatty fish like salmon at least

twice per week number four

make sure your meats and things are

grass fed because the grain fed will

just throw off your omega-6 to omega-3

ratios

okay number five limit chicken out of

all the meats chicken has the most

omega-6 fatty acids

but it’s interesting because um they

will tell you oh eat more like white

meat you know from chicken and turkey

there it’s lean

and eliminate the red meat right because

that’s the problem no no no it’s the

chicken that is the problem and then of

course

really limit your grain fed animal

products if you’re going to consume nuts

uh eat more walnuts because walnuts hay

have ala

that converts into

omega-3 fatty acids epa and dha all

right there you have it the simple way

to fix this racial problem i think a

really good video for you to watch next

would be on the one on olive oil check

it out i put it right here

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