| According to at least one popular diet web site, | | | | Alpha-Linolenic Acid LNA (part of flax oil) + D6D -> ... |
| millions of dieters around the world may be using the | | | | -> Eicosapentaenoic Acid EPA -> Series-3 |
| wrong oil on their salads, or taking the wrong | | | | Prostaglandins [inflammation fighters]OMEGA-6 Linoleic |
| omega-3 dietary supplement pill.For years, millions of | | | | Acid LA (in many vegetable oils, incl. flax oil) + D6D |
| people have been pouring flax seed oil over their | | | | -> ... -> Gamma Lenolenic Acid GLA -> ... -> |
| salads, adding it to recipes and menus, and taking big | | | | Dihomogamma Linolenic Acid DGLA -> Series-1 |
| capsules of it on a daily basis. The idea was to get | | | | Prostaglandins [inflammation fighters]NOTE that D6D |
| something called EPA, DHA, and GLA from the | | | | is required to generate both of these this way, from |
| essential omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids it | | | | vegetable oils, and it is often not available for |
| contains. The problem is that to get GLA, EPA and | | | | diabetes and many pre-diabetics or metabolic |
| DHA from flax oil, you need a special digestive | | | | syndrome, insulin resistant folks.Incidentally, if you eat |
| enzyme. And, guess what? The news from is that | | | | the wrong stuff and D6D stops working, then you |
| only young, healthy people make enough of the | | | | get Arachidonic Acid (AA), which leads to making |
| enzyme to do the conversion from flax oil into these | | | | Series-2 Prostaglandins... those are the bad guys |
| special nutrients that people are looking for.What are | | | | involved in most inflammatory disease |
| all these initials and why do people want them? EPA, | | | | states.Everybody affected by most of the major |
| DHA and GLA are called "essential fatty acids" | | | | types of disease in the U.S. usually wants to boost |
| because your body can't make them by itself. You | | | | Series-1 and 3 Prostaglandins, and lessen Series-2. |
| must eat foods (or take supplements) from outside | | | | We're manipulating our diet to get that to happen. |
| sources containing either Lenoleic Acid (LA) or Alpha | | | | That's most of our strategy. There's more, i.e. |
| Lenolenic Acid (LNA). Flax seed oil contains both of | | | | burning more with exercise, eating less |
| these. | | | | etc.SOLUTION?The idea is to make an end run |
| GLA: Gamma Linolenic Acid | | | | around the missing or not-working D6D issue. Fish oils |
| EPA: Eicosapentaenoic Acid | | | | give you EPA and DHA with needing to be converted |
| DHA: Docosahexaenoic Acid | | | | by D6D. Borage oil gives you GLA with using D6D. So |
| And, if you can properly digest these essential fats, | | | | the answer is simply to add them into your diet. |
| then you get two wonderful health boosters for | | | | |
| your body called EG1 and EG3 (prostaglandin series-1 | | | | Take Borage Oil (GLA), which gives you GLA |
| and series-3). These are terrific aids in fighting | | | | without needing D6D (best source). Recommended |
| inflammation. And, when you reduce inflammation, | | | | daily dose is about 300mg of GLA from one 1,200mg |
| you help your body prevent major diseases like heart | | | | oil capsule for most normal sized people - up to twice |
| disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and many | | | | that for very large people. |
| more.What if you can't digest the flax seed oil? Well, | | | | Take Fish Oil, which gives you EPA without needing |
| you will end up making too much of something called | | | | D6D (best source). Recommended dose is about 2.4 |
| EG2 (prostaglandin series-2). As you might guess, this | | | | grams a day of the total EPA and DHA in the oil you |
| actually INCREASES your levels of inflammation, and | | | | are using. That usually means about 3-4 |
| therefore increases your risk for all the major | | | | pharmaceutical grade capsules, or up to 10 normal |
| diseases associated with inflammation -- and that's a | | | | standard health store grade capsules. |
| big list of diseases, as scientists are reporting these | | | | |
| days. The site lists dozens of these associated | | | | Both these oils together will get you more of the |
| diseases, adding up to possibly 73% of all the deaths | | | | anti-inflammatory prostaglandin series-1 and series-3 |
| each year in the U.S.So, for years people have been | | | | molecules. And you don't get as much of the |
| buying flax oil to get these vital nutrients. And all this | | | | pro-inflammatory series-2 prostaglandins that would |
| time they may have actually been making matters | | | | come from not being able to convert flax seed's |
| worse. Or, at least many people have not been | | | | omega-6 fatty acids into DGLA and therefore ending |
| improving their health, despite their efforts.Here is the | | | | up with too much arachidonic acid -- whenever you're |
| break down -- The issue is that the Linoleic Acid flax | | | | insulin resistant, inflamed or for some other reason |
| seed oil contains has to be converted into Gamma | | | | unable to produce or use enough delta-6 desaturase |
| Linolenic Acid using Delta-6 Desaturase D6D enzyme. | | | | D6D enzyme.Thomas Bond is the founder of the |
| And D6D is made inoperative by high levels of insulin | | | | anti-inflammation health program. He is the creator of |
| (duh), alcohol, pollutants, and high levels of Omega-6 | | | | the unique Food Guide Football(tm), a replacement |
| Fatty acids from vegetable oils and fried foods, | | | | for the Food Guide Pyramid. The Food Guide Football |
| trans-fatty acids, etc. Also, D6D becomes less | | | | features fats at one small end of the football, sugars |
| available anyway as we age, and there is evidently a | | | | at the other end, vegetable proteins like beans, peas |
| genetic mutation that makes people into diabetics (by | | | | and nuts in one vertical stripe around one end, and |
| family groups of course) that is basically simply a | | | | animal proteins like fish, chicken, turkey and lean |
| mutation that makes people not as capable of | | | | beef, as the other stripe around the other end, with |
| making D6D as "normal" people. It is felt that this | | | | the large middle of the football representing fruits |
| mutation is probably the true cause of the familial | | | | and vegetables. The Food Guide Football represents a |
| component in the genesis of type-2 diabetes, and | | | | low fat, low simple carbohydrate, moderate protein |
| naturally likely of most inflammatory disease and | | | | and high complex carbohydrate diet formula. Specific |
| metabolic syndrome.A simple digestive enzyme | | | | foods and supplements are recommended to achieve |
| deficiency, which is possibly inherited among up to | | | | and maintain a low inflammatory state of health.If all |
| 40-50% of people or sometimes even more in some | | | | of that complex chemistry stuff is confusing, just |
| regions (apparently about 90% of the Pima Indians in | | | | take Level1Diet.com's word for it. A capsule or two |
| Arizona, for example). Estimates vary, but the inability | | | | of flax seed oil probably won't hurt you, and it may |
| to use D6D is very common. So, a simple digestive | | | | help you. However fish oil and borage oil should |
| enzyme can be a major cause involved in many of | | | | ABSOLUTELY HELP YOU. Take them instead. |
| our worst diseases. Who'd have thought it?OMEGA-3 | | | | |