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– Omega 3s and Omega 6es, two types of fat, Omega 3 is DHA and EPA, you might see those written on the side of fish oil, capsules, tablets, oil, whatever it is. Omega 3 comes from things like seafood, Omega 6 from things like seeds and vegetable oils or meats that have been, animals that have been fed on those sorts of things, hence the whole grain fed versus grass fed. In the environment that we evolved in, which is called environment of evolutionary adaptiveness, the time where we spend a lot of our time evolving to be pre humans humans, we had a ratio of one to one between Omega 3 and Omega 6, just know they’re two different types of fats effectively. Whereas now, in some westernised countries, the ratio is as far off as one to 25, so you’re suppose to have the same amount of these as these, now we’re having 25 of these for just one of these and there’s a big mismatch there. So if we have a mismatch and unfavourable ratio there it increases inflammatory diseases, which is obviously not great for recovery, diseases like arthritis, soft tissue inflammation, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, a whole range of things. The big mismatch now is because we have so much fat from vegetable oils, we eat a lot of grains, grain based livestock feed and that sort of things. So, if we have a lot of Omega 6 and not enough Omega 3, more inflammation, more Omega 3, less 6 will help to reduce the inflammation and obviously we’re talking about recovery here, going to be good recovery practise. So, when you eat a good balance of protein, carbs and fat, proteins from lean animal sources, I know there are a couple of vegetarians and vegans and stuff, so there are alternatives to them, carbohydrates, lots of plant based material, because remember, everyone is all it’s got to fit my macros, macronutrients, what about micronutrients, that’s the stuff that really makes us healthy as well, that I think will be the next wave in nutrition, and then also fats as well, so good healthy sources of fat which are going to be high in Omega 3s. So, to minimise inflammation, eat the closest modern equivalent possible to animals caught via hunting and uncultivated plant foods from gathering. Our bodies have evolved to perform best of that, that’s what we evolved for, if we can take our bodies from our current century highly processed food, exercise, environment, and put it back into something like we were a 100.000 years ago, we get a more favourable expression of our genes.
