The Importance of Omega 3 Fish for Brain Health

Speaker 2
it so some detective work but you know just something to be mindful about
Speaker 1
sure and then the thing that I really look at on this panel is going to be your megathre fatty acid index so the megathrees are mostly the cold water fish so salmon tuna herring those are the main things that most people are willing to kind of eat but it's mainly about the EPA and the DHA content of those. The EPA is really important for hard re-health the DHA is really important for brain health. Your nerves are coated with DHA it's like the insulation so I sometimes use an allergy of DHA being your cell phone charge the more DHA you have the more energy the longer things are going to last when your DHA is low the more likely things are going to break down sooner so DHA is critically important for brain health and so you're doing really well on the DHA side maybe you could stand to eat a little bit more seafood but you weren't far off or from
Speaker 2
optimal levels. Yeah you know it's interesting it this is also these tests are great because you get a chance to sort of check in and pretty much since last August I've been working out with a new training group here in Los Angeles called ultimate performance and I've moved away from the amount of salmon that I used to have you know I've done a mega index test before through a mega quant and I would always be in the optimal category to see that I dropped below optimal over here and I also wasn't having a regular high quality fish rail supplement but when we reviewed these labs I was like okay if I'm going to step away from some of the cold water fish and salmon I really got to make sure that I take a high quality fish rail because I'm now starting to drop out of the optimal category.
Speaker 1
Right and it's all about balance honestly you weren't you know far off from it you know you didn't have significant inflammation. Those are the cases where you really got to start pushing it more through diet and you know maybe supplementation because that can help lower high sensitivity CRP in certain cases but if you skip ahead a little bit and look at it's more about your omega 3 to a omega 6 ratio. Other companies will do a mega 6 to mega 3 ratios you're going to kind of invert the math so usually you want to see the ratio under 4 to 1 if you're doing 6 to 3 ratio but on the boston you basically want to see your ratio 0.1 or higher so the mega 3s tend to be more anti-inflammatory. The mega 6s are not all bad but when they're out of balance it tends to be more pro-inflammatory so I don't really see two concerns with the way you're doing that at this point. This test isn't really dialed in for the monounsaturated fat to be truly accurate of like your recent exposure to monounsaturated fat but the monounsaturated fat that's going to be the olive oil and the avocados so people are like I'm eating a ton of that stuff and their level is low and like that's okay sometimes it doesn't really fully track but for some of the patients when you know they had normal lipoproteins they switch to a keto diet and they say I'm not going to switch back you know I feel great on this keto diet well sometimes you can get by by cutting back on some of the saturated fat and have them isocorically increase their omega 3 and or increase their monounsaturated fat and sometimes their lipoproteins will improve as well because some people are more sensitive to the volume of saturated fat that they're getting than others.
Speaker 2
Great so anything else on this test? Side
Speaker 1
note once is homocysteine this is extremely important for people is that if your homocysteine levels north of 10 you may have a methylation issue and if you have a methylation issue you're more prone to having high homocysteine. High homocysteine will cause high asymmetric dimenatharginine and if you have high levels of that you have low levels of nitric oxide. So around about ways saying that if you have high homocysteine it may affect that endothelial function.

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