If you have only 15 seconds per day to improve your health, guzzle as much omega 3 fatty acids as you can in those 15 seconds. Dr. Barry Sears
According to the latest research, 91% of Americans are deficient in Omega 3’s. The stunning deficiency of Omega 3’s in our population is a huge factor in the current health care dilemma that we face in our country. I can tell you the one word that had the most impact of all others, CORN.
Eighty years ago, there was no such thing as free-range anything. This is because every farm item was a free-range product. The cows went out to pasture, ate tons of grass, (a good source of omega 3’s) and they were slaughtered and eaten. Sometime about 1935, the government started to subsidize the production of corn. The farmer’s production went from 2 billion bushels in 1935 to over 10 billion bushels in 2005. With this huge corn production, the farmers started feeding it to their livestock, fish farms as well.
The problem is that corn oil is an omega 6 oil, which is highly inflammatory which then replaced the anti-inflammatory grass sourced, omega 3’s. So a piece of beef produced eating grass has an omega 6 to omega 3 ratio of about 4 to 1. In comparison, a piece of beef-eating corn has a ratio as high as 40-1. We have all suffered from this issue.
Deficiency in omega 3’s has been linked to heart disease, brain dysfunction, hormone imbalance, weak bones, poor skin, and overall inflammation which is tied to many diseases including cancer and arthritis.
There is a quick and easy finger-prick blood test to see if you are deficient. The Holman Omega 3 test could be the most important test you can take in your life.
Taking omega 3’s is one of the easiest and fastest ways to get your body working better. Come on back for the future chapters to the omega 3 story.
