168: Omega-3 Overdose, Baker's Cyst, Nut Flour Negatives? (HouseCall)
The Cabral Concept
Dr. Stephen Cabral
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🗓️ 23 July 2016
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
We're back with another weekend of the Cabral House Call!
Here are today's community questions:
Ken: Can you take too much Omega-3s?
Dawn: I have a Baker's Cyst - How did I get it and is there anything I can do about it?
Dawn: Are nut flours like coconut flour good for you?
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| 0:19.6 | practitioner Dr. Stephen Cabral shares how he was diagnosed at the age of 17 with a life-altering illness |
| 0:25.6 | and given no hope for recovery. |
| 0:27.4 | It was only after studying and traveling all over the world did he discover how to |
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| 0:47.8 | Today on our Host Call Edition, we're taking your questions from over the past week or two and today there are a lot of nutrition based ones a lot of recipe based ones and also a supplement one which we're going to get started on right now. So the first |
| 1:03.6 | questions coming in today from Ken. Ken is asking can you take too much |
| 1:08.8 | omega-3s? So a lot of people have definitely heard the research really over the last 10 years because it's been so prevalent over the past decade how omega 3s a lot of the omega 3s that come from fish and seafood for the most part some of those-3s do come from flax and from chia, but the only |
| 1:25.8 | thing about the flax and the chia, that they're not high in EPA and DHA, which are the most |
| 1:30.6 | neurologically beneficial for your nervous system and then also anti-inflammatory. |
| 1:34.8 | So although Flax and Chia are fantastic foods, they don't get converted as well, somewhere |
| 1:40.0 | between 6 and to 14 percent of the omega 3s from the ALA in Flax and Chia get eventually |
| 1:47.8 | converted to EPA so it's a lower conversion rate it doesn't mean don't eat them you can eat them from many other factors besides just omega-3s. |
| 1:56.2 | So when Ken is asking, can you take too many omega-3s? There's conflicting reports in this, but let's just |
| 2:01.8 | go to the science. so what does the science |
| 2:03.4 | tell us well omega-3s are a poly unsaturated fat so that means really important that |
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