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what is the difference between a heart

attack and sudden cardiac death or

sudden Cardiac Arrest well when you have

sudden Cardiac Arrest or sudden cardiac

death you die right away oh when you

have a heart attack you may not die

right away it’s usually involving an

obstruction in the coronary artery that

goes to the heart muscle itself but with

these other conditions the electrical

system of the heart just shuts down and

for the majority of time it’s called

idiopathic which means they don’t know

what causes it so I want to talk about

the relationship between

omega-3 fatty acids and the electrical

system of the heart as well as how you

can use fish oils to decrease the risk

of sudden Cardiac Arrest or death so

what is so special about these omega-3

fish oils that you keep hearing about

over and over and over and how do they

help you as far as the heart function

well first of all they have several

properties that involve the heart

they’re anti-arythmic which means they

help the heart stay in Rhythm they’re

anti-inflammatory which anytime you

reduce inflammation to the heart you’re

going to help the heart function and if

the inflammation goes too long you can

get fibrosis to the heart and it just so

happens that these fish oils

trigger genes that turn off the fibrosis

effect of the heart Bishops are also

anti-thrombotic which means that they

inhibit

this thrombus or this clot formation so

they help keep the blood on the thinner

side so it doesn’t clot unnecessarily

even though if there’s a problem in the

artery you want it to clot but fish oils

can help prevent this inappropriate

clotting this soils also support this

endothelial layer on the inside of your

arteries which is going to help your

blood pressure and it’s also going to

prevent the formation of

calcium and cholesterol from forming on

the inside of the arteries but despite

all that I think the biggest benefit

that fish oils can do for your heart is

make your cell membranes very fluid and

less rigid if we take a look at the

opposite of Omega-3 we’re dealing with

omega-6 fatty acids okay and that would

be all the seed oils the vegetable oils

the soy oil the cotton seed safflower

sunflower oil peanut oil all these oils

invade the cell membrane and make them

more rigid it’s extremely important that

you have the ratios of omega-6 to

omega-3 correct and they really should

be like a one-to-one ratio an average

person in the US has like a 15 to 1

ratio to omega-3 fatty acids and so you

can imagine the stiff arteries you can

imagine all the other problems that

occur with these omega-6 increasing

insulin resistance increasing the risk

of obesity increasing the risk of

getting a fatty liver and the list goes

on and on and on So based on that data

you might think well okay well I’m doing

fish oils I’m doing supplements each day

I’m fine but what you may not know is

there’s a lot of hidden sources of

omega-6 fatty acids

and this

omega-6 fatty acids compete with omega-3

so the more that the omega-6 are in the

diet the less you’re going to get of the

omega-3 so if you’re doing both of these

at the same time you’re really

nullifying the effects of Omega-3 and

this is very important to know so let’s

go through some of the foods or the

hidden foods that are high in omega-6

well you have all the animals that are

fed grains Okay like the commercial

chicken the commercial chicken eggs

grain-fed beef versus the grass-fed beef

all of these are very high in omega-6

um all the grains the bread the pasta

the cereal the crackers very high in

omega-6

most of the nuts are high in omega-6

except for walnuts uh do have a

precursor to the omega-3 fatty acids and

then what about all the salad dressings

try to find a salad dressing that does

not have vegetable oil you want to make

your own out of extra virgin olive oil

and vinaigrette then we have the

condiments like mayonnaise okay that’s

usually made out of soy oil try to find

a mayonnaise that doesn’t have omega-6

oils

what about hummus right you buy hummus

for your to dip your cucumbers I mean

it’s very difficult to find hummus

without omega-6 oils for some reason

they just don’t add the olive oil in the

recipe well I know the reason is just

because it’s too expensive but you want

hummus with extra virgin olive oil not

soy oil or safflower oil now farm-raised

fish does by the way have more omega-3

fatty acids than wild caught fish

however it also has six times higher

omega-6 fatty acids than while caught

fish and then we have restaurant food I

mean it’s just loaded with omega-6 fatty

acids and the oils and fast food

especially typical french fries deep

fried in all the omega-6 oils so this is

a very important video if you don’t know

this information start increasing okay

your fish oils cod liver oil is a little

bit better because it not only has the

omega-3 fatty acids but it also has

vitamin d and vitamin A whereas fish

oils don’t however fish oils are still

good make sure you include salmon or

fatty fish while caught in your diet on

a regular basis

but more importantly really start

avoiding these omega-6 fats that seem to

creep into our diet so often and on top

of that it’s fascinating to me how the

so-called nutritional experts will tell

you that you need to replace your

saturated fats with the omega-6 when

there’s absolutely no evidence to show

that that’s going to improve your heart

in any way shape or form now if you

haven’t seen my video on cod liver oil

you should check that out I put it up

right here