Greetings, Eric Bakker, the naturopath. I'm back again, to bore you with more fish oil stuff.
You know we're going to talk about fish oil again. What are the different types
of Omega-3 official supplements you can get? Well, let's look at the Omega-3 fish oils first,
because they primarily are composed of two things, EPA and DHA.
I think you called it eicosapentaenoic acid or something like or docosahexaenoic acid.
EPA and DHA. These are two things found fats in fish. Now what many people don't know,
people think that the fish actually had these fats by default in their body, but they don't.
The levels of the essential fatty acids come from the consumption of microalgae. So tiny algae that
small fish consume get into the body. Okay? And the small microalgae, there's one called
haematococcus pluvialishemato, for example, astaxanthin. I finally got it. Astaxanthin is
the carotinoid found in human oxycoccos. So that's a small, tiny little micro-algae that fish eat.
Now of course, through the process of what we call bio-magnification
a smaller fish will be consumed by a slightly bigger fish by slightly bigger fish by slightly
bigger fish and eventually shark and tuna and mako, the big fish will consume, the big fish
will consume the medium fish will consume... We call that bio-magnification. So this is why the
biggest fish have got large amounts of EPA and DHA. But don't forget this, do your own research,
that these big fish also contain high levels of selenium. All right.
I quite liked the guy called Chris Kresser from the United States. He's very science-based and
does an incredible amount of research. Look at Chris Kresser's page on the fallacies of oil
on the nonsense of I won't touch oil because it's high in mercury kind of thing. You know?
Everybody jumps on the bandwagon. There's so many conspiracies out there regarding
every single thing now, you don't even know what's real fake anymore. But needless to say,
I'm not a big fan of consuming large predatory fish because they will also
bio-accumulate a lot of toxins in their body. So it doesn't make sense. All right? A lot of
these fish are endangered. We shouldn't be shark finning. We need to leave these creatures alone.
Krill is another topic I've spoken about quite a lot on these videos. Krill actually is the primary
food for the humpback whale. So once we start scooping tons and tons of krill out of the ocean,
in the entirety, we're going to malnourish whales and it's happening already.
We've taking food out of the mouths of whales. All right? So
different types of oils, of supplements, are also created for specific needs.
You may get a very high top heavy DHA supplement.
They could even add little bits in there like phosphatidylcholine or different
components in there that are going to help for cognition. All right? For the brain function or
for moods, for example. So DHA is quite prominent for the eye and the brain, whereas the EPA,
we're looking for inflammatory conditions. All right? So a very high EPA one is better
for people with inflammation. Now, if we look at the product that we've got here, the Omega-3 Plus,
okay, we've got two capsules per daily dose. So if we look at the daily dose of EPA on two caps,
in this one it's 670 milligrams. And then we go got 340 milligrams of DHA,
which is in a two to one ratio of EPA to DHA, which is considered the best one for inflammation.
So EPA can convert to DHA, but DHA can also retro-convert back to EPA,
but it's a much more difficult process. So that's why you're better off having
a high EPA supplement and not a high DHA one. Right? So EPA also is very,
very important to get into your body because it produces what we call eicosanoids. Okay?
And these are components. They've got fancy names like leukotrienes, prostaglandins, thromboxanes.
So these are compounds called eicosanoids that are targeted by nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
So when you pop a Tylenol or you pop a ibuprofen, you take an Aspirin, you take drugs like that,
they work on either leukotrienes, thromboxanes, or prostaglandins. All right?
They work on those pathways, but why would you take that crap when you can take EPA?
EPA is shown to work as well as ibuprofen, but people are still following the medical line,
aren't they? So there you have it. Two to one ratio. EPA inflammation, now you know,
predominantly, and DHA cognition. There are many types of supplements made. Think carefully
where you're getting your supplement from, but also even more carefully think about is this a
sustainable product? Am I buying an anchovy-based fish oil coming from the Peruvian coastline,
which is the most exploited fishery on the planet. 80% of fish oils today are made, including
anchovies. So just be careful what's in your fish oil. Thanks for tuning in.