Dr. Bill Harris

It's just been shown so many times, there's no question about it anymore.

It's just been shown so many times, there's no question about it anymore.

It's just been shown so many times, there's no question about it anymore.

Yeah, and because I'm trained in nutrition, in nutrition you learn that to be deficient, There's like being deficient in vitamin C. You have scurvy, okay? Your teeth fall out, all right? Really bad stuff happens. Vitamin D and rickets, your bones bend and break real easily. Well, deficiency in the omega-3 is not that stark. It's a long-term subtle thing.

Yeah, and because I'm trained in nutrition, in nutrition you learn that to be deficient, There's like being deficient in vitamin C. You have scurvy, okay? Your teeth fall out, all right? Really bad stuff happens. Vitamin D and rickets, your bones bend and break real easily. Well, deficiency in the omega-3 is not that stark. It's a long-term subtle thing.

Yeah, and because I'm trained in nutrition, in nutrition you learn that to be deficient, There's like being deficient in vitamin C. You have scurvy, okay? Your teeth fall out, all right? Really bad stuff happens. Vitamin D and rickets, your bones bend and break real easily. Well, deficiency in the omega-3 is not that stark. It's a long-term subtle thing.

So I'd say insufficiency is maybe a little bit better term. But in the United States, if we ask how many people or what percent are what I would call suboptimal. And optimal, I will say, is an omega-3 index, which we'll talk about, of over 8%. We're talking about 90 to 95% of people.

So I'd say insufficiency is maybe a little bit better term. But in the United States, if we ask how many people or what percent are what I would call suboptimal. And optimal, I will say, is an omega-3 index, which we'll talk about, of over 8%. We're talking about 90 to 95% of people.

So I'd say insufficiency is maybe a little bit better term. But in the United States, if we ask how many people or what percent are what I would call suboptimal. And optimal, I will say, is an omega-3 index, which we'll talk about, of over 8%. We're talking about 90 to 95% of people.

Are not optimal. But to be not optimal is not necessarily to be deficient. It's to be suboptimal. You could be better. And you could be up in a zone that's protective. The average omega-3 level in America is roughly five and a half, maybe. If you throw it across, we're working on a project right now to kind of define the omega-3 index of every country in the world we can figure out.

Are not optimal. But to be not optimal is not necessarily to be deficient. It's to be suboptimal. You could be better. And you could be up in a zone that's protective. The average omega-3 level in America is roughly five and a half, maybe. If you throw it across, we're working on a project right now to kind of define the omega-3 index of every country in the world we can figure out.

Are not optimal. But to be not optimal is not necessarily to be deficient. It's to be suboptimal. You could be better. And you could be up in a zone that's protective. The average omega-3 level in America is roughly five and a half, maybe. If you throw it across, we're working on a project right now to kind of define the omega-3 index of every country in the world we can figure out.

And Canada, United States, we're sort of in that intermediate zone where you're not awful, you're not all vegans, but you're not optimal like the Japanese are, where they're on average, they're 9% or 10% omega-3 index, which is great.

And Canada, United States, we're sort of in that intermediate zone where you're not awful, you're not all vegans, but you're not optimal like the Japanese are, where they're on average, they're 9% or 10% omega-3 index, which is great.

And Canada, United States, we're sort of in that intermediate zone where you're not awful, you're not all vegans, but you're not optimal like the Japanese are, where they're on average, they're 9% or 10% omega-3 index, which is great.

So the vast majority of people on Western diets, not just Americans, people who do not eat fish every day, like some cultures do, Japan, South Korea, they have really high omega-3 index because they eat fish a lot.

So the vast majority of people on Western diets, not just Americans, people who do not eat fish every day, like some cultures do, Japan, South Korea, they have really high omega-3 index because they eat fish a lot.

So the vast majority of people on Western diets, not just Americans, people who do not eat fish every day, like some cultures do, Japan, South Korea, they have really high omega-3 index because they eat fish a lot.

Yeah, I think it's both and. I think definitely the lack of fish in the diet. You know, historically, there were certainly people on the coasts were much more dependent upon the food that comes right out of the sea because we didn't have refrigeration. We couldn't transport things around the country. You had to eat what was there. And there was a lot of fish on the coast.

Yeah, I think it's both and. I think definitely the lack of fish in the diet. You know, historically, there were certainly people on the coasts were much more dependent upon the food that comes right out of the sea because we didn't have refrigeration. We couldn't transport things around the country. You had to eat what was there. And there was a lot of fish on the coast.