Do We Really Need Fat In Our Diet? – Dr.Berg on Fatty Acids & Fat Soluble Vitamins

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hey it’s me again we’re going to answer the question do we really need fat in our diet okay mainly I want to talk about the essential fatty acids essential meaning must come from diet your body cannot make it it’s required by the body and there are basically two categories of essential fatty acids uh we have one category which is omega-6 fatty acids which are generally inflammatory uh and then you have the omega3 fatty acids which are anti inflammatory and you need a ratio of one: one most people have a ratio to like 1 to 10 Omega 6 they’re heavy on the Omega 6 or 1 to 25 very heavy on the Omega 6 that’s why they’re so inflamed and they have arthritis and they have heart issues I was at the fair uh this last weekend in Pennsylvania um I’ve never I’ve seen so many deep fried uh places where you could buy deep fried anything um they deep friy cheesecake and Oreos and uh vegetables and everything of course they kill everything and of course I had to look behind the curtain and see what kind of oil they’re using and it’s vegetable oil which is actually soy oil okay so that’s GMO soy heavy Omega 6 or they might use corn oil which is also GMO so I think the biggest confusion that people have is with the chemistry name linolic versus alpha linolenic acid okay this is linolic versus Alpha LOL lenic lenic is the vegetable oil the corn the soil the safflower oil sunflower oil cotton seed oil but it also has other types of a category which is called the GLA which I’m not going to trying to keep this as simple as possible but it’s hard GLA type fats which are anti-inflammatory so they they’re different than this but if you’re consuming like um an omega-6 borage oil evening Primal oil black current seed oil those are anti-inflammatory those have a lot of health benefits and they’re very different than these oils I mean it’s okay to consume some safflower oil but um the problem is like don’t consume so much where you don’t have enough omega-3 so this is what we need to focus on having more of omega-3 fatty acids fish oils that’s why I like the CER oil virgin civer oil is the best if you could find some it’s a bit pricey um or just fattier fish um sardines are really healthy uh walnuts nuts are high in Omega-3 flax is pretty darn high in omega-3 seeds other seeds are real high in omega-3 Chia has the most omega-3 of all the seeds then we got hemp seed canola and soy have around between 8 and 10% so has a little bit of Omega-3 but because it’s GMO we’re not going to recommend it okay um so you also have other things that are essential uh in the body called fat cable vitamins so we we don’t just have essential fatty acids we have actual vitamins that are essential that you need and you can’t live without and that would be vitamin A comes from the fat vitamin D E K2 so those are essential uh and it’s also K1 as well uh so a deficiency of essential fatty acid would leave you with scaly dry skin dermatitis all sorts of skin issues uh alopecia where your hair is falling out low immune system a lot of um autoimmune cases are low in essential fatty acids so it worsens your memory your cognitive function suffers it worsens your overall mood you can become depressed it affects the cardiovascular system and there’s one more point about this alpha linolenic acid which is a type omega-3 fatty acid we need this raw material to be able to enhance the most abundant fat in your nervous system in your brain and your retina of the eye uh to prevent Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s and to prevent loss of vision and that is to have this turn into something called DHA Okay now you can get DHA directly from fish oils and egg yolks and other uh fatty foods but if you’re trying to get them from vegetable sources and you have insulin resistance you’re not going to convert those into the actual fat that you need so you might have a problem so to answer your question do we really need fat in our diets well the answer is absolutely but we want to make sure we have a ratio of 1: 1 omega3 to to Omega 6 thanks for watching hi guys Hey listen I created a pretty amazing evaluation quiz down below that actually analyzes your symptoms to find the cause the root cause of all of your symptoms the most likely cause so take the quiz now and we’ll send you a report