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Rebecca Fergosi's avatar

I’m a little curious and confused… Should we then stay away from fish oil supplements because of the presentation about how Fish oil supplements are very inflammatory?

What is your feeling on this? I thought fish oil was meant to be good for the heart.🤷🏼‍♀️

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The Real Dr. Steven Horvitz's avatar

Rebecca

Good question.

I think the issue lies in the processing. Fish oil from eating fish is good. Fish oil highly processed during extraction, then put in a capsule for who knows how long at all different temperatures makes them unstable and more prone to oxidation which means inflammatory from the start.

Seed oils from Omega 6 fats have a bad reputation. But newer thought is that this deals more again with the highly processed industrialized Omega 6 Vegetable and Seed oils. Same issue, during processing they become even more unstable, oxidized and inflammatory.

New info.

Omega 6 fats found in food naturally, non-processed or extracted in a way that does not cause oxidation/inflammation, can actually be helpful to your body. Every cell wall in your body has lots and lots of Omega6 fats.

I am looking in to how to help keep your cell walls get healthier and less inflamed and that would mean less PROCESSED INDUSTRIALIZED INFLAMMATORY FATS.

But no issue with the healthy fats which also includes saturated fats.

We can discuss more next time you are at the office.

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Rebecca Fergosi's avatar

Thank you… your explanation makes sense. Once again, use the natural and not processed!!!!!

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