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Welcome everyone, Dr. Mercola, helping you take control of your health, and today we're going to dive deep into omega-3 fats with one of the leading experts, Dr. Bill Harris. So welcome and thank you for joining us today.

Thank you, Joe.

Great to be with you.

So I suspect many people know who you are,

but there's probably more who don't.

So I think you would be best qualified to provide us with your long standing history in this area and what you've done in your journey to to achieve the level of

prominence you have in this field well that's kind of you just happen to get on the

right horse at the right time I think that's the way it worked out.

Yeah by background is in nutrition, a PhD in

nutrition from University of Minnesota. And then around 1980 I got involved with

omega-3 research when I did my postdoctoral

fellowship with Dr. Bill Connor in Portland Oregon and that's when we

started studying the effects of salmon oil on blood cholesterol levels.

It was really our primary interest at the time.

And it turned out that that's just about the time that the Eskimo studies had been reported from the Greenland physicians, Dr. Dyerberg and Bang, and they found omega-freeze were really helpful for cardiovascular disease and we were just

getting into it from a lipid and lipoprocein area and platelet studies, blood

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