And the reason it's important to increase EPA and DHA is those are the end products

of the metabolic pathways which produce the anti-inflammatory leukatrienes and prostitandins.

If you're not converting your alpha linoleic acid all the way through the EPA and DHA,

then you're not going to get those anti-inflammatory prostaglantin to cutrienes.

So you have to get EPA and DHA in your diet.

And the only place to get those is from marine-based sources.

And so the kind of the idea is that potentially if you manipulate that from marine-based sources.

And so the kind of idea is that potentially if you manipulate that balance of omega-3 to omega-6

by supplementing someone with omega-3 fatty acids,

you shift that balance of inflammation.

Thank you. Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio, the podcast that brings you evidence-based nutrition information direct from world-renowned

researchers, medical professionals, and in the trenches, coaches.

I am your host, Danny Lennon, and you are listening to Episode 98.

And today we're getting into the data and research looking at the potential effect of omega-3 fatty acids

and their intake levels on muscle metabolic function and muscle mass. And this also ties into

areas like inflammation and insulin sensitivity, which we kind of some underlying mechanisms,

which we'll get into.

And to discuss the topic, I'm going to be chatting with Dr. Lee Hamilton, who was one of the

authors of an excellent review paper published very recently, perhaps maybe only like three weeks

ago at this stage. And Lee is an exercise physiology researcher based out of the University of Sterling in Scotland.

And so we're hopefully wearing it into deep into some aspects of that review, but also the

literature base in general to kind of give an overview of where a lot of this is coming from.

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