Date:   8/28/2010 1:34:12 PM ( 14 y ago)
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This is from Dr. Rick Dina. I read Hv´s answer just now and remembered when I was studying that. This quote came to my mind. It is another way of explaining what Hv said bellow:

"Too many Omega-6 fats, which are pro-inflammatory, actually inhibit the conversion process of converting alpha-linoleic acid into the longer Omega-3 fats. Now we find Omega-6 fats in animal products; there's an Omega-6 fat called arachidonic acid. We have arachidonic acid in our cell membranes; we talked about the cell membranes that are made largely out of fat. We need some of it in there. So do animals. So when we eat the tissue of an animal, muscle, liver, whatever it may be, we're consuming arachidonic acids. So that's a source because arachidonic acid is an Omega-6 fat.

Then we look at corn oil, soybean oil, cottonseed oil, like when you read the junk food label - partially hydrogenated corn, cottonseed, soybean - those are also very high in Omega-6 fats. What's the average American eating out there? Domesticated animals and processed junk food. So the ideal ratio of Omega-6 to Omega-3 fats is about 1 to 1. You can go up to about maybe four times Omega-6's than Omega-3's and still be within a range where everything stays in balance. The average American though eats about 20 times more Omega-6's than Omega-3's. So even if you have enough alpha-linoleic acid, you have so many Omega-6's that the enzymes are so busy working on the Omega-6's they don't have the opportunity to act on the Omega-3's. They call that "competitive inhibition." It's the same enzymes that work on the Omega-3 family also work on the Omega-6 family. So that's one thing to consider.

When they take standard people who eat a totally altered ratio and they give them some of that alpha-linoleic acid, yeah, they'll find that maybe they don't make enough DHA. But if they were to clean up their diet and have a healthier ratio it's at least hypothesized, and there's some good evidence to support that, the conversion process actually works a lot better."

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