Why are Omega-3s so important for your health?

In this podcast, Dr. Rodney and Karen talk about the role of essential oils to your overall health and longevity. Your need both Omega-6 and Omega-3s. This time we focus on the Omega-3s.

Here's what the Omega-3s will do for you:

Provides support for a strong heart
Omega-3s promote nerve transmission which helps the heart muscles as it fires off.
Promotes a healthy brain
The Omega-3s promote a better mood and overall brain health because they allow the neurons to get adequate nutrition. Many do not realize that your brain is 60% fat so it is dangerous to go on a low-fat diet.
Prevents maculardegeneration
Many are unaware of how important the moisture in your eyes is to maintain healthy vision and nerve transmission. Adequate Omega-3s help to maintain the moisture level in your eyes as well as the transmission of information to the optical nerves.
Minimizes joint pain
Research has shown the increasing your level of Omega-3s rivals taking over-the-counter pain medication for relief of joint and back pain. The good news is that the Omega-3s only have good results rather than giving you leaky gut.
Encourages proper development of the baby during pregnancy
It is critically important for pregnant women to have enough Omega-3s to establish a healthy foundation in the development of th baby's eyes, brain and nervous system.
Supports a strong immune system
Omega-3s help with the internal repair system when your immune system is under stress.
Nourishes skin, hair and nails
Omega-3s protect against age-related damage to these three components. It's a healthy way to look younger than your biological age.
Assists in recovering from exercise
Omega-3s support healthy lung function and enhance blood flow to different part of your body in order to recover quickly from exertion.
Supports digestive health
Omega-3s protect against free radicals to keep your gastrointestinal and digestive systems in top shape

How much Omega-3s should you be taking?
500 mg to avoid deficiency
1 gram for proactive support
2-4 grams for high intensity support

Your next step needs to be to call us at 972-802-8812 to set up an appointment to get a simple blood test to measure your Omega-6 to Omega-3 ratio.

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Transcript

Dr. Rodney: Hi, and welcome to Stance for Health podcast. I'm Dr. Rodney, along with Karen the Hope lady, author, longevity coach, and entrepreneur. We're talking about essential fatty acids today.

Karen: And that word essential is not hyperbole. You need them to be healthy.

Dr. Rodney: Absolutely. So we oftentimes think of something as essential, as, if I get some of it in my diet, I'm okay, and I won't be deficient in it. Well, we're here today to talk about that. We're also here to talk about some of the essential vitamins, fatty acids, among those things that we can't make on our own.

Speaker D: Right?

Karen: So there are certain things that your body can manufacture from raw materials that you put in through your food. But these particular essential fats. And fat has gotten such a bad name.

Dr. Rodney: It has.

Karen: When actually your body needs them for proper health. And unfortunately, there is a global omega three deficiency.

Dr. Rodney: Okay, so there's two major types, omega sixes and omega three S. Okay, so.

Karen: Alert doc is going to go into an explanation about the different types of Arachadonic acid. Tell us that little bit.

Dr. Rodney: The most common omega six is arachidonic acid. It's in the class of omega sixes. And that is where we in the Western world. In fact, the United States, we have anywhere from 14 up to upwards to 25 times the amount that we actually need of that essential fatty acid compared.

Karen: To omega three S. Exactly. You do need omega six.

Dr. Rodney: You do. You need it. We just don't need it as much as we're getting right now.

Karen: And that is such an important topic that we're going to devote an entire podcast just to that. But today we're going to be talking about why omega three S are so important. So there's many different reasons, and let's start with what it does for your heart.

Dr. Rodney: Everybody knows that essential, basically, omega three S fatty acids are good for a healthy heart. Anytime you think of nerve transmission, I want you to think fat, good fat, healthy fats. And when you think of the heart, you could also think of sinus rhythm, SA node, AV node. And that's nerve transmission. It's the heart muscle itself that fires off through either PerkinsI fibers or through those nodes. And there's a lot of nerve involvement in the heart and heart function. So it's got its own rate. The heart has its own rate, its own internal rate, but it also has a rate that's regulated by the central nervous system.

Karen: So what does that have to do with triglyceride levels? Because there has been such a push to go everything nonfat.

Dr. Rodney: I can't say for sure that I know why that's the case, except that's a whole nother topic for discussion too, as to how we got there. And it's actually that's been disproven exactly.

Karen: That all of the fats that were taken out in the we were told they were bad for you ends up, guess what, you need them because they give you omega three S. Yes. So then they're natural and safe for long term use.

Dr. Rodney: It's all about supporting and promoting. That's what omega three S do for your heart. And a lot of folks don't realize the brain in terms of function is actually 60% fat. Which is interesting because one of the stats is when you take omega three S, you actually end up reducing your all, cause dementia and mortality by 60%. And guess what? Guess what? Your brain is actually made of almost 60% fat.

Speaker D: What? Yeah.

Karen: So if I'm on a reduced fat all fat, I eliminate all fats in an effort to help my heart. I'm hurting my brain, but it's also not helping the heart.

Dr. Rodney: And you're not, we're not going to stop there. So you think about supports, healthy brain function, promote and positive mood and wellbeing. We can actually camp on that for a second if you want to. There's a test that you can do that actually shows the ratio between omega six S and omega three S. And I mentioned earlier that the average American is anywhere from 14 to 25 times the amount of omega sixes in their diet. Imagine if you have a predominance of omega sixes versus omega three S. When that ratio is tested, what happens? We talk about a sense of mood and wellbeing. There is evidence to support that. It doesn't just affect your mood, it affects brain function. When the ratio actually gets four to one or higher, starts at four to one, your brain function starts to diminish. So you can have someone, let's say that's a student in fact that was actually where the test was done, was at a chiropractic college. And this is students that are probably having to live out on a popper's diet, popper's income. Right. So can you guess what the average ratio was among chiropractic students in the last five years at this particular chiropractic college? Yeah. It was more than twice the amount when your brain function actually starts to diminish.

Speaker D: Wow.

Dr. Rodney: Now, the highest was actually a guy that the instructor who was telling us about this said he pulled somebody aside and it was more than 40 to one. He asked that person point blank. He didn't point them out in the middle of class. He just said, ask him the question. So are you having any suicidal thoughts? Person said, yes, I battle them every day. What about anything else? And he says, yeah, I feel like I have to keep from wanting to kill people every day.

Karen: Could this be contributing to road range we see everywhere?

Dr. Rodney: It may be one of the hidden reasons why we have such high rates of suicide, early death here in the United States for so many reasons. And that's just brain function.

Karen: This one is so close to my heart because my mom, who was a health nut, bought into what was sold that you needed to use. And I'm getting a little bit into our next podcast, but needed to use canola, those oils, and the seed oils. And unfortunately, it caused or was at the root of losing her eyesight.

Dr. Rodney: Didn't you say she started having some brain function or brain dysfunction, the dementia.

Karen: Right, and the macular degeneration. And though what is so interesting about the omega three for the eyes is that like you said, they're so connected. And I love this because just by having omega three S, I can have healthier eyes than that.

Dr. Rodney: Yes, because it reduces oxidative stress on the cells of the eyes just like it does the brain, because you're talking about rods and cones and blood flow. But what's also interesting about it is I didn't always think of vision as being related to how well the moisture levels were with my eyes. But when I got them tested and I looked at this basal cell carcinoma on my eye, I wanted to go first to an ophthalmologist to see what they thought it might be. And they said, well, you need to get that checked out at a different specialist, get that looked at. Well, backing up, it was actually on the left eye. And my left eye acuity was actually less. And that was the eye that didn't close properly because of basal cell carcinoma on the eyelid. And so that's what omega three S actually promote is proper moisture levels and tear duct levels.

Karen: So here's a suggestion. Instead of constantly putting eye drops in, increase your omega three S. And that will help relieve the redness and the dryness.

Dr. Rodney: And we're going to get to what three levels can your body tolerate? Before you start to get too much of this and it's not what you think most of us think, oh, we don't want to get toxic levels of vitamin D, vitamin E vitamin, or get too much fish oil, get too much omega three S. And we'll tell you what those levels, acceptable levels, are coming soon.

Karen: The next one I wanted to ask you about is joint pain, back pain. Because recently we had a research study come past your desk that was fascinating.

Dr. Rodney: Regarding this, we get to oftentimes tell our health partners what they can do for themselves outside of the context of getting adjusted, because you can't adjust away this problem, this deficiency. What do you think of when you think of the major joint of your back or the joints of your back, your spine? Of your spine? Yes.

Speaker D: Not sure.

Dr. Rodney: How about the disc, the heart of that? We believe the study shows that omega three deficiency actually points at degeneration or is a major contributor of the degenerative joint disease, specifically the disc, because that disc needs omega three S in order to stay at the same thickness.

Karen: Is that the cushy part in between?

Dr. Rodney: It is. You've got the annular fibers and then the nucleus pulposis and the nucleus pulposis, that thing, that's jelly in the middle like a jelly filled. Donut we need omega three S for that to stay healthy?

Speaker D: Isn't there something yes.

Karen: Then there's another benefit of omega three S for immunity. How does that work for my immune system?

Dr. Rodney: Well, cells have what's called a lipid bilayer. In other words, it's two different polarities of fat that are pointed in different directions and they make up the cell wall. So any cell wall basically in the body is made better or will function better. When you're in deficiency, the cells of the body, specifically immune cells that need proper connection and proper cell wall function will function better. And guess what? That's the white blood cells. That's the natural immunity of the cell wall itself that helps with connection.

Karen: And it seems like that omega three throughout this whole context of what we're talking about really helps in the repair system and is natural and safe. No side effects.

Dr. Rodney: Yes. And if you want to stimulate or do a good job at promoting your own immune function, do this increase your vitamin your vitamin C intake as well as omega three S. And I would say that you'll begin to notice your immune function. Normal physiology being brought back to high levels quicker because your body doesn't make its own vitamin C and doesn't make its own omega three S either. So you got to take them in.

Karen: By either by your diet or supplements.

Dr. Rodney: Yes.

Karen: So you have become Webster certified and we are so happy to have our little pregnant mamas that come in. So what would you tell a new health partner that was pregnant and you were seeing?

Dr. Rodney: First and foremost, if you're not taking a good prenatal or perinatal vitamin, get on that because a lot of times they'll have the omega three S in there. If it doesn't contain a lot of omega three S and we'll get into the amount here toward the end, I don't want a spoiler alert, but let's just say it's 500 milligrams at least. And then from there you can just go higher.

Karen: So what is so critical about the development of the baby's brain? Is it dissimilar to what we were talking about, the host, let's say the mom's brain.

Dr. Rodney: Yeah. If mom doesn't have it to give, then the baby doesn't have it to develop. Right. Because where is it coming from?

Speaker D: Yes.

Karen: And so we're in an era where the increase of attention deficit and autism and all of these are on an increase. So we just want to encourage any of you that this is something you can do that's going to have good results. And if we look at the history of getting ahead again to this next podcast, but a lot of the increase of the dementia, the Macular Degeneration, the Add and the autism, all of these different things, it's interesting that there started to be a sharp increase as the Omega Three s diminished and the Omega six s began to be part of everyone's diet, particularly the kids. Moving on to another topic, because we could go digress to that one. What about looking younger, having better skin or hair or nails? How does it affect that?

Dr. Rodney: So again, we're talking about oxidative stress. It's one of the number one reasons why people look older, or should I say think older or feel older function older. Degenerative changes can be reversed by taking more of this substance omega three S essential fatty acids. Think about any cell in the body. We're now covering another cell type which is collagen, and it needs omega three S in order as a substrate in order to make the product, the end product of collagen and skin and nails. And any cell again, any cell in the body that has to have this lipid by layer fatty layer is made better by taking increased fatty acids and namely Omega three S. Fountain of Youth.

Karen: So many people are spending. So many women particularly, are spending a fortune on the creams they put outside when they're neglecting the Omega three S that they would take and say, oh, that's too expensive. And actually it is the most effective way to have that skin that has that healthy glow.

Dr. Rodney: And I would go so far as to say that if you're taking collagen, more power to you, that's great. What if you took college, increased your collagen intake and all the other essentials that go along with it? In other words, we oftentimes think about omega three S by themselves, but in order to get the most out of them, let's say that we have vitamins that will actually help us get more out of our omega three S as well as our collagen. So collagen omega three S and supportive again, getting back to the multivitamins so that you can get more out of your omega three S and your collagen, that's so good.

Karen: What about for overall fitness? I'm going to get in shape, I want to run, I want to walk, and whatever I want to do. How does omega three fit into that picture?

Dr. Rodney: That was one of the funny things that growing up, I thought, well, when I work out in my body, it's strictly a muscle issue. And it is. But it's actually more about recovery than it is the workout, because anybody can work out. It's a matter of getting the rest and helping your body deal with stress, oxidative stress, in other words, when you exert your body, it tears it down and then it builds itself back up because it's responding to stress. And so what helps you deal with oxidative stress or bounce back even faster? You guessed it, omega threes.

Karen: And it also helps that lung function and promotes the blood flow, like we've talked about earlier, so that oxygen gets there to replenish all of those cells.

Dr. Rodney: That are broken down as like a catalyst.

Speaker D: Yeah.

Dr. Rodney: So if you're an enthusiast, if you like to work out, then, my goodness, we're going to get into some actual amounts. What is enough? How much is enough of this omega three just to avoid deficiency? The two major subgroups of omega three S are DHA and EPA. Long, hard words. And if you practice them, you'll get real good at it. But they're DHA and EPA, and we don't want to bore you with the pronunciation of them right now, but just when you get a blood test, you can actually see how much DHA and EPA you have. A percentage wise number. Just make a number. Just make an expression out of it when you get your blood test. That way you'll be able to tell how much that you have compared to, say, arachidonic acid. You'll usually find that arachidonic acid is much higher.

Speaker D: Yes.

Dr. Rodney: So how much of this do we need to take in just for proactive? I should say, just to avoid deficiency. What do you think?

Karen: You mentioned it already.

Dr. Rodney: You said 500 straight back to that. What if we doubled that?

Karen: I think that would be very proactive.

Dr. Rodney: That's exactly proactive support. We get a gram of it now. We actually have what's called a two gram challenge, and that gets into high intensity support. That's the bare minimum for high intensity support, 2 grams. We call it the two gram challenge. We have pretest. We have the amount that you need in order to get what you need out of the best. What I believe in terms of omega three S out there, the fish oil that comes from Nordic Naturals, just a plug free plug for them. We think pretty highly of their research and the product itself, we've gotten some great results. Upwards to 4 grams. Double that.

Karen: So we do want to say, repeat what Nordic Natural says. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration, and these products are not intended to diagnose, treat or cure or prevent any disease.

Dr. Rodney: In essence, what we're really saying is this is going to promote normal physiology in your body faster. What does it take to get there and keep yourself there? Anywhere from 500 milligrams upwards to 4 grams of omega three essential fatty acids. That's DHA and EPA. I'm sitting here with the Hope lady, and we are sitting here today about to stand up and take our stance for health encouraging you to do the same with Omega 3s. We'll talk to you next time.