Jess Kane

Then to get into the second one.

It's really important.

And that's getting into one that we do not endogenously make in the body is essential fatty acids.

Those are essential.

We do not make them in our body.

You need to actually consume them.

Right.

And that's when you start getting into the discussions about polyunsaturated fats, aka PUFAs, oxidized PUFAs versus non-oxidized.

And people get into the whole mess of seed oils.

Yeah.

So if you Google the essential fatty acid pathway, you'll see at the top there's linoleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid.

And then there's a bunch of downstream metabolites.

There's oleic acid.

There's some other ancillary omega-9.

But the two mother essential fatty acids are omega-3 and omega-6.

And then they produce downstream metabolites, EPA, DHA, GLA, gamma linoleic acid, which comes from eating primrose, arachidonic acid.

The omega-6 pathway, people tend to think of as being inflammatory.

But the really interesting thing is there's this beautiful balance in the body of creating an inflammation response, quelching the inflammation.

And so you need these things to play together in order to make the whole pathway work.

Where people went really wrong about 10 years ago is they started taking too much fish oil, which is lower level alpha-linolenic acid.