Correcting Your Ratio of Essential Fatty Acids (EFA) on the Ketogenic Diet - Dr. Berg
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 17 July 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, Dr. Berg discussed about Essential Fatty Acids on the ketogenic diet. Essential meaning it is important but the body cannot make this type of fat and this category of fat is not just used for energy, it is used to replace body parts. If you are a vegan, there’s only 5% limited rate of ALA conversion to DHA and EPA. And if ALA and LA is both present in the diet about the same time, LA will take priority and block the absorption of ALA.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast. |
| 0:07.4 | Where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing |
| 0:11.3 | healthy weight. |
| 0:13.3 | Hi guys, I'm back. |
| 0:24.0 | In this video, we're going to talk about essential fatty acids. |
| 0:27.0 | There's just a lot of confusion. |
| 0:28.6 | I'm going to try to make it as simple as possible to sort out kind of the big idea of why |
| 0:34.4 | you need to be consuming these and what might happen if you're deficient. |
| 0:37.6 | Well, first of all, let's back up, okay, what is an essential fatty acid? |
| 0:40.8 | Well, essential meaning that the body cannot make it, okay, cannot make this type of fat. |
| 0:46.8 | Yet you need it. |
| 0:47.8 | It's essential because without it, you will die. |
| 0:50.2 | This must be gotten from the diet. |
| 0:51.8 | And also, this category of fats is not just used for energy. |
| 0:57.0 | It's used to replace body parts. |
| 1:00.4 | Your brain is mostly fat. |
| 1:02.7 | Your nervous system is mostly fat. |
| 1:05.4 | So we need these fats to make up our body. |
| 1:08.6 | All right, so that's essential fatty acids. |
| 1:11.8 | Back in 1923 or 4, essential fatty acids were called vitamin F, okay. |
| 1:20.4 | But they realized that it's not necessarily a vitamin per se, it's more of a fatty acid. |
| 1:25.4 | So they changed the name. |
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