Comments on: Omega-3/Omega-6: It’s All About Balance! https://www.soscuisine.fr/blog/omega-3omega-6-its-all-about-balance/ Eating well made easy Wed, 12 Feb 2020 15:33:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 By: Michael Muryn https://www.soscuisine.fr/blog/omega-3omega-6-its-all-about-balance/#comment-5343 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:30:58 +0000 http://www.soscuisine.com/en/blog/?p=4660#comment-5343 Well some experts and fanatics (and you guessed, Dr. Mercola among them, but not limited to him) talk that we should strive to go near 1:1 ratio. Apparently that was what our ancestor was consuming and I guess the recommendation will go toward this eventually (just a matter of time). Actually I am doing fast search on Mercola and I see in one of his sale pitch for his organic beef that 0.16 to 1 ratio of omega 6:3 is “the ratio science suggest is ideal for our diet”. Hmmm. Anyway like you said, it is the ratio the important (even though some study said it did not change a thing… there is a study with conclusion for anything it seems…).

On Wikipedia they report info that contradict themself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-3_fatty_acid#The_n.E2.88.926_to_n.E2.88.923_ratio
And they also mention about the “healthy” omega-6:omega-3 ratio of 1:1 to 1:4 (yes, 4 more times omega-3).

People advocating that, will say that ratio suggesting/allowing more Omega-6 than Omega-3 are just adapting to what we are offered rather than what is the most optimal for us. But then we adapt, right? πŸ˜‰

Also about Omega-3, there are three kinds that are apparently important in human physiology: ALA, EPA and DHA.

After reading, I concluded some years ago that the best strategy was to get them all in my diet (ALA from vegetable source like flax, chia etc. and EPA/DHA mostly from animal source like fish, fish oil or krill oil; Wikipedia also get a long list of source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-3_fatty_acid#Dietary_sources). My sources informed me that ALA can be converted to EPA/DHA by our body but not in enough quantity, so that was a point against consuming only vegetable source of Omega-3 (or I should rather say consuming only source of ALA as I don’t know all source of each of them).

But then there is also hype, and that is to me only “knowledge”, I should (we should) rather study how all this works to understand these numbers better. Not having enough time or motivation to understand everything, for now I will follow the recommendations. One day I will get mad and understand it. πŸ˜‰

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