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Long-chain fatty acids. Our skin oils are made of them, our brain is wrapped in them, our hormones are made of them, we need fats!! Fats are not evil. We need them to live, but it has to be the right kind of fats, and in the right amounts. The most important fats are these long chains of carbon atoms, like strands string of pearls. There’s a single electron bond between all these carbons but at number three there is a double bond. These are Omega 3 fatty acid. One that’s 18 carbon atoms long is called linolenic acid and it is what is found in flax seeds, walnuts, hemp seeds and dark green leafy vegetables you need this stuff that’s why you want a big plate of greens every day. Our bodies cannot make can’t linolenic acid so you need to eat it.
Linolenic acid is not what your body really requires to make your hormones and your nerve tissue. It needs a longer chain this is only 18 carbon atoms long, so your body, clever chemists that it is, when you eat the flax seeds the walnuts and the dark leafy greens and this linolenic acid stuff comes into your body your enzymes in your cells add two more carbon atoms onto the chain and create a 20 carbon atoms long. This is called KCl pentanoic acid and it’s initials are EPA very important your body can do good things with EPA.
This is not really the final destination what your body really needs is a even longer chain with two more carbons long. This is 20 you need to add another two carbon fragment and make twenty two carbon atoms long and that’s called DHA. This is what your body really needs to make your nerves, to make your hormones, your skin oils etc.
You eat the hemp seeds, the flax seeds the dark leafy greens but two enzyme steps are required to turn it into that DHA. This reaction and a good day is only ten percent efficient only 10% of the linolenic acid that you take in and the walnuts actually turns in to DHA.
Turns out these two enzymes steps (that lengthen this chain from eighteen to twenty to twenty-two that a good day is only ten percent efficient) are inhibited by the junky omega-6 oils that are in safflower, oil sunflower, peanut oil, the junky industrial oils that the chips are fried, French fries they steal the enzymes for their own needs and they turn this ten percent efficiency into two percent efficiency.
Too much Omega 6 blocks Omega 3 conversion into EPA and DHA.
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