Welcome to "Healthy Living!"
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I'm your host Margot Marshall.
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I once asked a group why
it's important to know sources
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of omega-3 other than fish.
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One gentleman responded,
"I might not catch any fish,"
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and another said,
"I don't like fish."
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The answer I was actually
looking for was - there aren't
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enough fish to supply
omega-3 for 7 billion people.
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Today, we're going
to discuss the downside
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of sourcing omega-3 from fish.
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Omega-3 is an essential fatty
acid, our bodies can't make it.
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My guest today is
Dr. Eddie Ramirez.
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Welcome Eddie. Thank you!
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First of all, why
do we need omega-3?
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As the name says,
this is an essential oil.
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In other words, you
need to have it in your diet
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for the body
functions to work properly.
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Your brain depends
on it, and many of your
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cells depend on it.
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There are some substances
that omega-3 helps to remove,
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and there are many studies that
show the benefits of omega-3
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such as helping avoid
atherosclerosis such as help
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decrease arrhythmias; such
as reduce the stickiness of
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your platelets that could end
up giving you a serious problem
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such as stroke or a heart
attack and also there are many
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autoimmune diseases that
respond very well with omega-3.
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That's a bunch of very
good reasons to make sure
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that we have a good source
of it and a good supply of it,
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your brain, your
heart and autoimmune,
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it doesn't leave much, does it?
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And it's interesting
how we have been conditioned
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to think in a certain way.
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Whenever somebody hears
the word, "omega-3, what
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do they automatically think?
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Always fish - ask any
group and get a chorus of fish.
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And it seems to be the only
thing that people really know.
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That's right! And we don't
realize that there are many
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other healthy sources - we
will see those in a minute,
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of these omega-3 that
is accessible, that is
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cost-effective and that it
has those beneficial effects
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to your health.
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And you know, I've been
involved in lots of research
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projects - just last year
I submitted for publication
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31 studies. Thirty one!
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Thirty one!
Thirty one in one year!
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Including one on fish! Okay.
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And it was a very well-designed
study - we're talking about
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5,600 people in this study,
so it's a nice big sample.
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There were people from all
over the world including many
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from New Zealand and Australia.
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Oh okay, even Australia is
in your study! That's right!
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And we were also taking into
account different religions,
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different ages - the
studies were nice and diverse.
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The way people were
cooking their fish was varied.
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Some of them like it raw,
some of them like it cooked,
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and so forth.
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And we can see that
study on the screen.
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This study was presented
in a very important meeting
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of
pharmacological-related things.
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And the reason why they
were interested is because
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this was related to toxins.
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And we found in this
study how eating fish had a very
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negative effect on mental
health which is interesting.
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Well that's interesting
because it's meant - the omega-3
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in fish is you
take it so that you can
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improve your brain
health. That's right!
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But we actually found
the opposite with our data.
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I did not manipulate my
data or anything - this is what
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our raw data is showing.
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You could predict
actually the level
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of depression
but by their intake.
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And see, this is the
point, in the past, fish was an
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excellent food, in fact,
even Jesus ate fish if you go
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and look in the Bible.
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It was actually not any
fish, there were certain rules -
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what type of fish that He
was eating which was the fish
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with scales and fins,
you know, they have to have
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both at the same time.
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So the problem of
today's society is that we have
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polluted our oceans, our rivers.
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There was an expert on pollution
that we were talking with
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a few years ago and he was
telling us that in the past
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you could actually find
mercury-free fish in the rural
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waters of Canada and
in the oceans near Alaska,
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but he told us - you know
now, today, even that fish
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has been
polluted with the mercury.
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And we still actually
don't understand the exact
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mechanism on how
that is happening.
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We are theorizing that it may be
related to rains and so forth.
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As our world environment
is getting so loaded with
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toxins, even some of them are
going via the rain and so forth.
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And what happened is that these
toxins start to accumulate,
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and see - with mercury this
is something serious. Oh yes.
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Because things get accumulated
and especially in your nervous
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system and mercury is
something extremely toxic.
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So we theorize that the
mechanism why we are seeing
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more depression among those
fish-eaters has to do with the
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fact that you may be eating
small amounts of that mercury
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but as you continue doing
that, that mercury accumulates
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in your system and ends up
affecting your mental health.
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In fact, there's
plenty of research that shows
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that when you get fish, any
fish, every fish has mercury
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to a certain level.
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I'm coauthoring a book called,
"Rethink Food," together with
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Michael Greger - if you want
to find some good information
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detailed about journals where
this information comes from,
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I would invite you to search
"fish and Michael Greger,"
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and you will find some
good sources there to inform you
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of real causes of the problem.
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You do medical
practice, you do research,
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you write books and you're
doing even more than that!
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I just don't know how you ever
fit it all in, but we are very
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privileged to actually have
you talking to us about this,
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and I'm very pleased that
we can actually understand
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because fish is actually
promoted because of omega-3,
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but it always does
come with a warning:
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"No more than twice a week,"
and that's a concern in itself,
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and it should be
a bit of a red light
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to people,
shouldn't it? That's right!
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And pregnant women
should not have it.
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That's why there are
some international guidelines
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that show that - that pregnant
women, children, small children.
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So if it affects
them, it will also
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affect you. It
would have to, yes.
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And there is something
in ecology that is called,
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"biomagnification."
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Biomagnification is how
we describe the phenomena of
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how toxins increase as they move
up on the food chain. Right.
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Not actually too far from where
I live in northern California,
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they had a study in which they
documented this biomagnification
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and we're going to see
that study on the screen.
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In this study, they were
studying a toxin called "DDD."
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It's something
very similar to DDT.
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If you notice, in the
lake water, there was only
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.02 parts per million. Okay.
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It is so small, that
amount, that any international
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body will tell you,
"That's acceptable, you can
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drink that water."
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But the microscopic vegetables
that live in the plant
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that are called "phytoplankton,"
those have 5 parts per million.
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This is quite a bit
jump actually, isn't it?
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That's right!
From.02 to 5, still that 5 is
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parts per million,
so still is very small
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within acceptable range.
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But the worrisome part
was those vegetarian fish that
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ate those microscopic
vegetables - those had between
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40 and 300 and then you
jump to the carnivorous fish
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which are the ones
eating those vegetarian fishes
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which have up to
2,500 parts per million.
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Tremendous levels of this DDD.
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Now I just need you to use
your imagination and imagine
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now the humans that
eat those carnivorous fish
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that are going to
have even higher levels.
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That's why this is
something serious because -
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Have they ever done
a test to see how many
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parts per million humans have?
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Not on the DDD. Not
on that, interesting!
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That would be very
interesting to know, but this is
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something serious because these
toxins have serious effects -
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such as affecting
the growth of a baby.
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If you expose a baby
to many of these toxins,
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you could actually end up
with something serious such as
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malformation in the baby.
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So that's why I would
encourage every pregnant woman
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especially to stay as far
as possible away from fish
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as you can because those
toxins are there and as you get
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exposed to that, many times
this accumulates in your body
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and can have some
negative consequences.
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So each time you take
it in, take in any mercury
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in any form, does
it ever leave your body
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or does it just
keep accumulating?
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You need special interventions
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to help them
get out of the body.
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So, no, it just
keeps on accumulating.
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The body does release a
little bit of it, but most of it
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can continue to
accumulate in your body.
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Now omega-3 has been so
well researched that we know
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very well that it
helps for many things.
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There is no question about
that, but one of the issues
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that has come out is the
reality of the situation,
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that omega-3 oil
is very contaminated
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with all these toxins.
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See, it's not just the mercury,
there are PCBs that we will
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mention that briefly
in a minute and many other
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toxins that get
accumulated when you concentrate
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the fish oil.
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So the average fish oil
that you buy in the market
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is loaded with these toxins.
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So it's not just mercury we're
talking about, but by the time
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you eat it, it's
fish oil, it's worse.
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It is worse because it's
concentrated, so things that
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may be in some moderate
levels in the fish, now they are
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concentrated in the fish oil.
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So you cannot patent
omega-3 per se because it's just
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a nutrient, you know.
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So a pharmaceutical company
got the bright idea, they said,
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"Why don't we try to separate
the toxins from the fish oil
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and then we can patent it,
and then we can sell it for
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lowering cholesterol or
many other medical conditions."
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So they went ahead and
did that and that actually
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patented version of omega-3
oil is actually available
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here also in Australia,
it's available around the world.
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But see, when the pharmaceutical
representative came to us
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to talk about it, we asked him,
"Okay you're saying that you're
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removing toxins, how much toxins
are you actually removing?"
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And it was one of
those questions that the
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pharmaceutical agent couldn't
answer to us and they said,
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"Well, you know, I
actually don't know this answer,
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why don't you write
directly to the company
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and they'll give
you the answers."
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So we went ahead and
did a letter and wrote them,
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and they actually answered
us, and you know what they said?
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They said, "You know, it is
actually impossible to remove
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all the toxins from
the omega-3 oil, there are
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still some toxins present
but it is less than the average
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fish oil."
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So as you can see, this
is a reality and we're not
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making these stories
just to make you afraid.
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We're just
showing you the facts.
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We need to know, I
mean we really do need to
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have that information.
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And if people still
want to eat it or drink it,
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they can do it but
at least we should know.
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It wouldn't be
honest for me, having this
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knowledge and not tell you.
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See I travel very much,
just recently I was in Iceland
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enjoying the
beautiful hot springs there,
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they're fantastic - if you
ever have a chance, go there!
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They are absolutely fabulous;
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those hot
springs there in Iceland.
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And near Iceland,
there was a fascinating
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research that was done.
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There are some islands
that are north of the U.K.
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that are called "The Faroe
Islands," and scientists there
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started to realize that the IQ
of the children living in those
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islands was starting to decrease
and they were very puzzled,
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you know, why are these
children's IQ decreasing.
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The Faroe Islands
today is a prosperous country
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just like Australia, you
know, they try to keep their
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oceans clean and so forth.
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It's not like a developing
country that you go and you
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see all the pollutants that
have been thrown into the ocean,
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and so forth - they are careful
to maintain their oceans clean
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and so forth.
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So scientists started to
test the food that these people
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were eating because they
thought maybe this is related
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to something they are eating.
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And sure enough, they
realized that their intake
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especially of mercury but
other toxins were very high
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due to their high
consumption of food products.
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Fish products. Fish
products, that's right.
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So fish and also they eat
whale there - one of the few
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places where they kill whales.
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They have not
signed that agreement that
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they should not kill whales.
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But anyhow, they
started to have that link
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and realized that
the problem lies in that.
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As they were eating these
sea products, that was affecting
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their children.
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There is a very good documentary
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if you are interested in this.
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So their IQ was actually
noticeably down to the point
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where they thought, "We
have to work out what this is."
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It was enough to
really get attention.
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This was a public health crisis.
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Do have sort of
a figure on that?
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So what I recommend to you
is to view the documentary,
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10 to 15 points down
than the normal, it was down.
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So you can watch the documentary
if you Goggle the words
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"Frontline" which is nonprofit
government organization in
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America and "Faroe Islands and
mercury," Google those 3 words,
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"Frontline, Faroe
Islands and mercury,"
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you will see the
details of the study.
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And Faroe Island is
spelled F A R O E? That's right.
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Faroe, yes.
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That's the way
that you'd spell it.
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So this is a big problem
- why expose your children
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to these types of problems?
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And also, what you were
mentioning in the beginning,
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is a very valid point.
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See, we are depleting our
fish stocks around the world.
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As the methods of fishing
have improved, we are creating
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an ecological disaster.
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See when you go to places like
Africa and you see the people
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there with a little boat
and a little net catching fish,
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those people are never going
to cause a global crisis. Right.
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But when you have this
industrial-sized boat in which
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they throw these huge nets and
pick up absolutely everything
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that is in their midst,
this starts to have a huge
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negative effect in the
reserves of fish in the world.
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In fact, there was a big
crisis some years ago in Canada
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in which they over-fished
and people had to change
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the location where they
were living - there was just
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not enough fish to keep
up and be able to provide
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for the fishermen and so forth.
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And also, today in many
places, they are raising fish
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in an artificial fashion
in which they have them in
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one enclosed area and the
fish starts to grow and they
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feed them and so forth.
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Well studies show that
that is actually worse for the
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environment than the fish
that are running around wild.
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How does that work?
The reason why is because
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in order to feed those fish,
you need to fish other fish! Oh.
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So not because you're
eating farmed salmon and these
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type of foods, you are making
a huge impact at the level
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of the ecology when
you choose to use that.
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Plus, because those animals
are living so close together,
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their risk of disease
increases, so they have to throw
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antibiotics and different
things and you are being
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exposed to these things.
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There's a fabulous documentary,
if you want to see the details -
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That's incredible, we know they
feed antibiotics to land animals
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but feeding them to
fish is like, oh what else?
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So the name of the documentary
is called, "End of the Line."
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I would highly encourage you if
you are interested in this topic
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showing the details of this
over-fishing around the world,
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and the kind of global
crisis that we're facing.
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And "Time Magazine" puts it
among the lists - the group of
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creatures that is the most
endangered of being extinguished
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are fish in general -
that's the number one.
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And when you are doing
these choices in your food,
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to a certain level, you actually
have some responsibility
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with this crisis.
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Well I think you have
fairly well convinced us that
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fish is really something
to be very concerned about.
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Omega-3 is something to
be very concerned about too,
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we must have it and we
must have it in our diet
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because our
bodies don't make it.
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So what are we going to do?
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Where will we find a
good source of omega-3?
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So we have good sources of
omega-3 in the vegetable source,
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so let's see the graphic
that we have on the screen
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about the sources
of plant-based omega-3.
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If you notice, flaxseed
or linseed - that's where you
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actually get the name
"omega-3" has tremendous levels
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of omega-3, so does
chia, walnuts, wheat germ,
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and even spinach and almonds
have certain levels of omega-3.
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That's quite a
spread really, isn't it?
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It's not just one or two things,
although some are obviously
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richer sources, but the
greens while they are not a
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high source, were meant
to be having lots of them.
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That's right and green soybeans
also - when it's mature,
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it doesn't have it but when it's
green, you have that omega-3.
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So what I encourage my
patients is that you need to
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make sure, especially if
you're on a plant-based diet,
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you need to make sure
that you are supplying enough
00:22:28.31\00:22:34.45
omega-3 in your diet.
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So purposely, you need to add
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these foods in
your daily intake.
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So make sure that you
are eating that flaxseed.
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You need to grind it -
you are not a cow so that
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you can just eat it whole,
it won't give you any benefit.
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You need to grind it and
you can add it on your cereal
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in the morning; to your
food that you're cooking;
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to your salads and as you
notice, many nuts are also
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very rich in these omega-3s.
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So the nuts again were the
walnuts and I think did you say
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almonds had some?
Yes, almonds have some,
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not so much but the
almonds tend to be more of a
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rich type of food.
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And the chia and so
that's lovely - you can do
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some lovely things with
chia, and desserts with that.
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And don't just eat just
one, try to use rotation. Yes!
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And the second food, chia
- actually there's a state in
00:23:29.94\00:23:33.41
Mexico named after chia.
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It's called, "Chiapas." Okay.
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That's how
important that state is.
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And then we have another
graphic that clearly shows
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another disadvantage that you
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have when you
are eating fish oil.
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The next graphic - what we
are seeing in the vertical axis
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is cholesterol and we're
comparing the different levels
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of cholesterol among fish
oil made out of different fish
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and how much cholesterol
we would eat if we were to
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partake of 100 grams of beef.
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So you can see that eating
a T- bone steak will actually
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give you about 79
milligrams of cholesterol.
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Now compare that to
herring oil - much more higher.
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Salmon oil,
sardine oil, cod liver oil.
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Eddie, we're just talking
about 3 teaspoons of the oils,
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not a large
quantity like the steak.
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Just that is 15 grams,
it's only 3 teaspoons -
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So very concentrated! -
and it's got more cholesterol
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than a T-bone
steak - that's huge!
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So yes, these are the
implications of partaking
00:24:52.62\00:24:57.13
of this fish oil.
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So especially people that
have heart issues and so forth,
00:24:59.66\00:25:04.37
this wouldn't be the best
advice for them to eat these
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types of foods in order
to provide that omega-3.
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That's an understatement,
not the best advice - I mean
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it's really a big
concern, really a big concern.
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And, you know, there
was a fabulous study that
00:25:18.48\00:25:21.32
showed that some pesticides
are actually found in the
00:25:21.35\00:25:27.82
tissues of
breast cancer patients.
00:25:27.86\00:25:31.93
And, you know, breast
cancer is not a rare cancer
00:25:31.96\00:25:34.60
in Australia - it's a big killer
and unfortunately something
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very common.
00:25:39.67\00:25:41.00
So we still actually
don't understand the mechanics
00:25:41.04\00:25:43.34
and so forth but we theorize
that the exposure of toxins
00:25:43.37\00:25:48.51
via fish consumption may
play an important role in
00:25:48.54\00:25:53.82
that increase of breast cancer.
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That's really such an
awful thing to hear - I mean,
00:25:57.12\00:26:00.66
it is, it's a tragic
thing when people get that.
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And also, not only that,
there is also cancer-related
00:26:04.49\00:26:10.00
to the fish - see, we've
been studying this for the last
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50 years, there was a
published paper that came out
00:26:15.30\00:26:18.27
and they compared in the waters
of Michigan the change in the
00:26:18.31\00:26:24.08
health of fish
in a 50-year range.
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And what they found, they
were studying a particular fish
00:26:28.32\00:26:30.92
there called "the bullhead,"
it's a very common fish there.
00:26:30.95\00:26:34.06
They found that compared
to 50 years ago, now 30%
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of the bullhead that they
capture in that lake of Michigan
00:26:41.63\00:26:48.27
actually has liver cancer. Oh.
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And we theorize that this
could possibly come due to the
00:26:51.61\00:26:57.25
exposure of those toxins that
are in his flesh - they end up
00:26:57.28\00:27:03.59
affecting the health and
the fish also end up developing
00:27:03.62\00:27:08.09
this type of problem.
00:27:08.12\00:27:09.92
You've listed a lot of
things there - a lot of concerns
00:27:09.96\00:27:13.80
about sourcing omega-3 from
fish oil or just eating fish,
00:27:13.83\00:27:17.13
let's just summarize those.
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First of all, it's high
in mercury. That's right!
00:27:18.60\00:27:21.77
What else did you
say? And we also have
00:27:21.80\00:27:24.41
exposure to DDD; you
also have exposure to toxins
00:27:24.44\00:27:31.58
that affect the development
of a baby or a pregnant woman.
00:27:31.61\00:27:36.32
It also can affect
negatively the IQ of children.
00:27:36.35\00:27:41.32
It is a product
high in cholesterol.
00:27:41.36\00:27:44.53
It is a product, the fish
oil especially that is very high
00:27:44.56\00:27:48.13
in toxins and we know from
studies that PCBs that come
00:27:48.16\00:27:53.10
specifically from fish decrease
and damage the sperm in males.
00:27:53.13\00:27:58.57
All of those big concerns - good
reasons to look at the plant
00:27:58.61\00:28:02.04
sources that the good
Lord placed in a good number of
00:28:02.08\00:28:04.95
things in nature and I think
that's a really good way to go.
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Look, some of the
things in today's presentation
00:28:09.72\00:28:12.49
might have surprised you
but we trust that they'll
00:28:12.52\00:28:15.22
benefit you.
00:28:15.26\00:28:16.59
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