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hi guys I’m back in this video we’re

going to talk about essential fatty

acids there’s just a lot of confusion

I’m going to try to make it as simple as

possible to sort out kind of the big

idea of why you need to be consuming

these and what might happen if you’re

deficient well first of all let’s back

up okay what is an essential fatty acid

well essential meaning that the body

cannot make it okay cannot make the this

type of fat yet you need it it’s

essential because without it you will

die this must be gotten from the diet

and also this category of fats is not

just used for energy it’s used to

replace body parts your brain is mostly

fat your nervous system is mostly fat so

we need these fats to make up our body

all right so that’s essential fatty

acids back in nineteen twenty three or

four essential fatty acids were called

vitamin F okay but they realized that

it’s not necessarily a vitamin per se

it’s more of a fatty acid so they

changed the name so there’s two main

categories of essential fatty acids you

have a LA and LA and this is where it

gets kind of tricky because the names

for these are very similar this one is

called alpha Leno lennick okay with an n

this one is just linoleic so we both

have Leno this one is lennick and this

is lahic but they’re very similar so

it’s kind of confusing

this one is omega-6 okay and this one is

omega-3 so alpha linolenic is omega-3

and by the way Omega basically is used

to categorize the kind of the form of

the fat as far as the different bonds

and how it’s chemically made up but it’s

they use the last letter of the Greek

alphabet which is omega alright so now

that you have that what type of foods do

you have to eat to get this right here

well this mainly comes from leafy greens

flax Chia hemp seed plants and nuts

especially

walnuts so we have also this thing

called EPA and DHA these are two

additional omega-3 fatty acids these two

come from salmon especially concentrated

in the salmon oil and Cobb liver oil

sardines caviar which is fish eggs and

by the way caviar is really good to give

females who are preparing their body for

pregnancy to increase fertility it’s

also good for men to increase their

fertility in sperm count and

testosterone levels it just has a lot of

nutrients phytonutrients and healthy

fats okay so we have that and then

seafood fatty fish grass-fed animal

products include grass-fed dairy and by

the way when you consume grass-fed beef

it has a four to one ratio 4 times the

omega-3 to omega-6 as compared to grain

fed beef has two-to-one so grass-fed

gives you double the amount of that so

if you notice that these are all kind of

animal products now there are exceptions

you can get DHA from algae okay but

typically you’re going to get your DHA

and EPA from these animal and fish

products right here now I just want to

pause for a second on these two fats

right here if you deprive an infant

DHA the IQ will go down the size of the

brain is limited the child will have

stunted growth the vision will be poor

so we know that DHA and even EPA is

essential in brain function and

formation the retina sex hormones

endocrine function and many other

functions okay so let me just kind of

touch on this for a second if you are a

vegan okay and you do not consume these

right here and you’re not even consuming

algae this has the potential to convert

to EPA and DHA but at a very limited

rate from ala to EPA is only like a five

percent conversion

going from EPA to DHA it’s zero to 4% so

this is one challenge that a vegan will

have in the conversion to these two fats

so it’s just one thing to be aware of if

you start seeing symptoms of deficiency

of these fats right here now I’m going

to come back to this for a second but

I’m gonna switch right over to here to

LA which is the omega-6 this is mainly

the corn oils the soy oil the canola now

I don’t want to get into the GMO subject

right now but just realize that when you

consume these oils you’re also consuming

glyphosate and herbicide which is a

whole other topic but the point that I

want to make is that these are like

green oils or they call it vegetable

oils but they’re really grain oils and

this can convert into another fad called

GLA you can also get GLA from borage oil

evening primrose oil black currant seed

oil and this is good for inflammation

skin health allergies and many other

things okay then this can also convert

to a rock Adamic acid there’s another

fatty acid which is a kind of a building

block of something called prostaglandins

let me explain what that is that is

about a chemical that is involved in

inflammation so it actually helps heal

the body in areas of injury and

infection so if someone is taking an

aspirin for example because they have

inflammation or they have pain or

whatever they’re blocking this body

chemical right here so that’s how that

works

so some people say well you need to

avoid or academic acid well you just

need to realize that if you avoid this

you’re blocking also the healing of

these of whatever’s going on in the body

as well so we have to kind of understand

why the body is inflamed now the real

big thing that you need to understand

about these fats is that an average

American consumes 20 times more omega-6

fatty acids than omega-3 now the other

thing you to know is that when you are

heavy on

these fats right here omega-6 this hat

competes with ala in other words if

they’re both present in the diet roughly

about the same time this will take

priority so this will block the

absorption of this and because you go to

a grocery store and everything is like

omega-6 fatty acid everything’s corn oil

soy oil canola and salad dressing and

mayonnaise and all sorts of things and

how average American is very deficient

in this fatty acid right here omega-3 so

what kind of symptoms are you gonna get

if you’re deficient well number one your

IQs going down you’re not going to be

able to learn you’re gonna have problems

with the brain retina vision you’re

probably we were glasses you’re gonna

set yourself up for heart problems blood

pressure problems inflammatory

conditions of the heart your overall

mood will go down a depression anxiety

decrease sperm count a lot of skin

issues dry scaly skin is a real common

symptom so over the last I would say

forty years there’s been a huge spike in

the consumption of sugar but there’s

also been a huge consumption of the the

omega-6 fatty acids right here because

certain organizations have been telling

you to substitute the saturated fats

which by the way 98 percent of all the

fats that make up the body are saturated

fats FYI as a side note so what has

happened is we lowered the saturated

fats and we replaced them with the

vegetable oils spiking the omega-6 and

then decreasing the omega-3 if you’re on

the ketogenic diet and you’re consuming

a lot of nuts and nut butters and seed

butters as your snack and flax or Chia

or hemp whatever and you’re not

consuming these fish oils or fatty fish

or grass-fed meats in certain amounts

you too can be deficient in these right

here because the conversions are very

very small so if you’re noticing that

your skin

is Raschi it’s kind of like kind of red

Raschi and it’s flaking it’s peeling it

could be a key to rash coming from these

deficiencies of omega-3 fatty acids so

start to add more fish oils and fish

into your diet and don’t just you know

fill up on peanut butter all the time

okay so I hope I didn’t confuse you too

much but there you have it essential

fatty acids thanks for watching so if

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