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#96: Authoritarianism | Vaccine Sophistry | Coronavirus | Essential Fatty Acids? | Ray Peat with Chris Masterjohn

Generative Energy Podcast

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Is DHA Essential?

For decades, omega-3s were thought to be essential fatty acids. That changed in the 70s when a girl with burn and burr had eczema. Ralph Holman got the FDA to approve the addition of fat to total parenteral nutrition or TPN. The reason that originally TPN didn't have any fat was that they did experiments with dogs and it gave them fatty liver.

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