Omega−3 fatty acid

And then typically between lunch and dinner, I am splitting pretty hefty dose of an EPA and DHA rich fish oil, at least a thousand milligrams of EPA DHA.

That's getting the omega-3 status a little bit higher, improving those essential fatty acid totals.

And now I don't consume a ton of omega-6 outside of what just comes in trace amounts through food, but I do like to supplement and have that on hand has been useful So those are my main sort of core supplements right now.

There's definitely been times in life where I've taken more supplements, but given that my schedule has changed so much and there's not as much predictability on a day-to-day basis, I have to keep it to kind of this core group of things I can take in the morning.

Certain B vitamins just not doing the job that we need them to do.

Omegas, way out of balance to where the inflammation is running the show, and the omega-3s, which are so good for brain concentration, focus, memory, and behavioral regulation, we gotta get those omega-3s back up.

So I think for a lot of families, you have awesomely gone up and down the nutritional labs functional world, and you go up and down your house and the toxins are not there anymore.

You go into your house and you open up a cabinet, and there is thousands of dollars of primo supplements that you have added into your kid's lifestyle and added into their daily regimen.

She's passionate about sustainability, helping busy families eat healthier and educating people about the brain boosting benefits of wild fish.

She has a master's degree in nutrition and food science with a specialty in quantifying omega-3s in fish and determining preferred handling practices for premium quality.

She and her husband enjoy running this family business together, spending part of the year in Alaska, and having the flexibility to enjoy watching her children participate in their school sports, and of course, eating and cooking fish.

Let's dive into my interview with Sina Wheeler.

I got my full ride for a master's degree in food science through that one email, so it worked out pretty well.

Oh, that's incredible.

And ended up studying west coast albacore tuna and the omega-3s in that fish and onboard handling qualities compared to sensory analytics.

which of course was like, oh, okay, yeah, that fits for me.

a big point of contention in the plant-based world because there are plant-based doctors, even cardiologists recommending olive oil.

And, you know, we keep hearing about, you got to have omega-3s and maybe take DHA.

I'm not looking at it from the health standpoint.

I'm just talking to you as a human.

It has a balance of the healthy oils, healthy fats.

Omega-3, omega-6 is with olive oil and food from that standpoint.

So if you're looking at general dietary recommendations of, well, what kind of food should I be eating? How do I balance my plate? That's a good recommendation.

Now, when it comes to keto diet, because that's a big talking point when it comes to mental health right now as a treatment for certain conditions like schizophrenia and bipolar, what I say is that there's been evidence that it helps because the idea is it puts your body in fat metabolism.

So the omega-9 is used to make the myelin.

And the omega-3 is used to make really highly flexible membranes.

So these, when I told you about all the vesicles bursting and forming back, that's dependent upon these omega-3 plasmalogens.

And also why children with autism actually have actually higher levels.

That's why you'll see this hypersensitivity in certain areas.

You need what's called a plasmalogen precursor, which is called an alkylacylglycerol.

That's what's present in human breast milk, an omega-9 version.

And so we manufacture these plasmalogen precursors, an omega-9 version, an omega-3 version that gets absorbed, doesn't get digested by the stomach acids, gets absorbed into your blood supply, enters into the brain and all the cells of your body.

Exactly.

And I would also get an omega index, because if your omega-3 index is under 5, you don't have cardiac protection.

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It's a book worth reading for you because it gives you an idea of what we functional doctors are looking at when it comes to somebody with a serious problem with cognitive decline.

There's so many things.

we need to evaluate and one of those is simple i mean you go to quest and get your omega index if your omega-3 level is under eight if your omega-3 index is under eight percent you are at risk for brain disease there are tests you could do like the apo e gene test and the um um amyloid, beta amyloid test, taurine test, all these different kinds of metabolic tests, including looking for, you know, insulin resistance and hidden diabetes, because that contributes too.

So I don't want to steal your hope, but I don't think there's much hope for taking triglycerides.

Again, it's just filling in all those gaps that I may or may not be getting from food every day.

Omega-3 fish oil.

This is a good source.

I do two to three of these every morning.