Optimising your omega 3 intake | Dr Bill Harris

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Simon Hill

Nutrition, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 117 minutes

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In Episode #208, I’m joined by expert researcher Dr Bill Harris to discuss the relationship between omega-3 fatty acids and human health. Increasingly, online nutrition conversation is moving away from scientific literature and is more heavily influenced by marketing and controversial claims for personal gain. Whether people are making these statements to grow their online community or capitalise on a financial opportunity, omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids are yet another topic surrounded by bold claims. In this episode, you’ll learn about the different types of dietary fats and why saturation is important in terms of human health. We cover the connection between cholesterol, fat saturation, and heart disease; the benefits or potential concerns of consuming omega-3s; supplementation guidelines; omega-6s and inflammation; the difference between adequate and optimal intake; and much more. Specifically, we cover: Intro (0:00) What are fats? (5:21) Harris’ research (10:28) Dietary guidelines & saturated fats (12:45) Monounsaturated fats (24:40) Unsaturated fats (27:37) Omega-6s (33:47) Omega-3s (49:21) Supplementing (1:21:04) DHA - prostate cancer & brain health (1:40:16) Outro (1:55:09) You can learn more about Dr Bill Harris’ research at the Omega Quant and Fatty Acid Research Institute websites. To connect with Omega Quant team, you can access their Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook pages. Thank you to The Proof friend Eimele Essential 8 for sponsoring today’s episode. Eimele Essential 8 offers the right nutrients, in the right doses, to complement a plant-rich diet. To save 5% on your first order, head to theproof.com/friends. Make sure to head to theproof.com/podcast for the full show notes. Enjoy, friends. Simon Want to support the show? If you are enjoying The Proof a great way to support the show is by leaving a review on the Apple Podcasts or a comment on YouTube. It only takes a few minutes and helps more people find the episodes. Simon Hill, Msc, Bsc (Hons) Creator of Theproof.com and host of The Proof with Simon Hill Author of The Proof is in the Plants Watch the episodes on YouTube, or Listen on Apple/Spotify Connect with me on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook Download my complimentary two week meal plan and plant performance

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0:45.1	The benefit of Omega-3 is seem to go away, and there are a lot of potential reasons for
0:50.3	that.
0:51.3	Partly, it just changes in modernization and medicine and coronary care, cardiac care.
0:56.3	This should typically hurt disease trials.
0:58.3	People are just not nearly as sick.
1:00.0	There's less heart disease.
1:01.0	Heart disease rates are really dropping, might crazy over the last 20-30 years.
1:04.7	We've been very successful in reducing risk, so that makes it harder to find an effect.
1:11.8	Welcome to theproof podcast, a space for science-based conversation exploring the health and longevity
1:17.3	benefits that come with mastering nutrition, physical exercise, mindfulness, recovery,
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