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Do You Have a DHA Deficiency?
The brain becomes dominated by an abnormal omega-6 fatty acid of 22 carbons that's not usually present in place of the DHA. And so what happened was she started seeing double and had all kinds of neurological problems when she was on the Safflower oil diet. They switched her back to the soybean oil and it went away. But subsequent experiments with monkeys showed that you could reproduce some of these neurological problems, especially problems with visual acuity and mental processing by depleting their brain DHA.