Dr. Mark Hyman
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She got severe osteoporosis when she was older.
She, I mean, she, it was her, it was her frailty and lack of fitness that killed her.
It's so important.
And what you're saying, and this was really, I didn't even know this data that you're saying is that the protein that the mother eats during pregnancy determines the limit of the muscle that the child can build when they get older.
Herring.
I mean, it's kind of crazy.
If you look at the data, 68% of U.S.
adults have deficiencies in vitamin D, and 95% have suboptimal levels.
95%.
That's a huge number of Americans.
So think of the amount of women who are pregnant who have low levels of omega-3 fats, and it determines neurologic development, cognitive function, risk for neurodevelopmental disorders, for metabolic health.
It's so important.
And part of the problem is, you know, historically, omega-3s were everywhere.
That's why humans had them.
They were in all the wild plants.
They were in all the wild animals we ate, all the wild fish.
You know, if you eat a, you know,
deer or elk or bison that's wild, it's going to have a higher concentration of omega-3s.
Obviously fish, it used to be the, it was such a valued currency.
I don't know if you know this, but in the Northwest, the Pacific Northwest, the Native Americans used these extremely oily fish.