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So I’ve been trying to figure out this PEO (Parent Essential Oils) stuff that Brian Peskin is preaching here http://www.brianpeskin.com/ ⁽⁰¹⁾ BrianPeskin.com

From my understanding, I believe he’s trying to suggest to us to stop seeing essential fatty acids as “Omega-6” and “Omega-3” and for scientists, doctors, and nutritionists to stop getting confused with thinking that fish is a good source (just because it’s high in omega-3), but rather, for us to specifically look at the “actual” essential fatty acids contained within those fatty acids; the LA (Linoleic acid) within Omega-6, and the ALA (alpha-Linolenic acid) within Omega-3.

I read his articles and they kinda went whoosh over my head (so please if you have a better explanation – help me out in the comments!), but I believe the above is what I was supposed to understand. Then once understood, the ‘new’ thing to look for was not the ratio of Omega-6 to Omega-3, but rather the ratio of the ‘linoleic’ & ‘alpha-Linolenic’ acids.

So then I needed to try and break it down to something where I could actually implement this new LA/ALA way of looking at things.

I’m not going to try and explain his PEO research here (because I can’t) :) – instead I’ve referenced it above so you can try and figure it out too (maybe having better luck than me), and you can also listen to him explaining it on this podcast from extreme health radio ⁽⁰⁴⁾ Ep #140 – Brian Peskin – Why Taking Fish Oil Causes Cancer & Heart Disease & What To Take Instead .

In this post, I am instead going to go into what I’m specifically doing with the information, and what specific changes to my diet I am implementing because of it.

Brian is very anti-fish oils and says they are damaging, and ‘pro’ a particular combination of essential fatty acids (1:1 to 2.5:1 of LA and ALA) but doesn’t explain ‘how’ to implement it, just the science behind it (which, while important, does make it hard for the rest of us to make heads or tails of the information to be able to correctly implement it without a science degree). Even when I listened to his interviews, the most useful heads-up to me was a link from one of the podcasts to the supplement that he specifically uses (called Yes Supplements) ⁽⁰⁵⁾ Yes-Supplements http://www.yes-supplements.com/products/efa-liquid-8-oz.html .

As I am living below poverty level right now, a $54/mo + international postage supplement habit is not a possibility for me, plus even though I’m not totally anti-supplementation since I realize our food & soil has degraded over the years, I would rather find natural ways to ingest nutrients wherever possible which not only saves money but it just makes more sense to me.

What I gleaned from finding out that he uses ‘Yes Supplements’ is the list of ingredients:

Which was a great starting point to researching natural sources of LA & ALA sources.

(As always, I write these blog posts explaining what “I” am doing, and not what others should do, just to share my thought process & reasoning and to actually get your opinions and learn from you as well.)

So with this new knowledge & understanding, I’ve decided to make my own concoction of the above by adding to my diet (sparingly to my meals), the following ALA & LA -rich ingredients: ⁽⁰⁶⁾ Fats, Omegas & Cholesterol

Adding to my Diet:

Could also add:

Unless I’ve misunderstood the research, you only need to add a small amount of LA & ALA if you are already eating a ‘healthy’ mostly plant-based diet to improve your health, so it doesn’t seem right to me to overload my body with concentrated versions from supplements. Rather, if I add the above into foods regularly, and keep eating a healthy diet with lots of green leafy plants and stay away from “fake/processed” foods, that hopefully adding the above list sparingly to different meals is all I need to do rather than buy expensive supplements.

Dosage I’m specifically adding: (note: this is not any different to what I already do anyway, except it adds for me, another “reason why” I’m adding them to the diet.)

It’s worth noting that I’ve already removed “bad oils” from my diet over the past year including margarine and any cooking oils, so the only oils I’ve been having are butter, coconut oil, and olive oil – all in moderation (not daily) – and I haven’t missed any of the others because I rarely need oils in my cooking because I mostly eat salads, juices, smoothies, and vegetable burgers.

I steam my vegetables if I feel like heated food or to make soups, if I stir-fry, I do it in a non-stick pan that doesn’t need oil (but if I do want oil, I use coconut oil, water, veggie-stock, or butter), and I put olive oil or coconut oil on my salad sometimes (mostly out of confusion*).

* I hope to gain some clarity one day on exactly whether I should be adding any oil at all to my salads, as there is so much conflicting advice and research, so mostly I don’t add it unless I’ve recently listened to a podcast or read an article on adding them, where I think, ‘Ok, today I’ll add it’. And every fortnight I buy fresh olives from the local fruit & veg grocer and prefer to add a few of those to my salad instead as I feel like that is a healthier and more natural choice… but this is definitely an area in my diet that I keep getting ‘confused about.

I don’t want to be someone that is so fixated on what I “think” is the truth just because I read an article, book, or research paper, when clearly the experts are still conflicted on what the truth is, and it depends on who is funding the research as to the kind of result(s) that get published.

It’s sad that after thousands of years, we still don’t have an agreement about what food we should be eating.

For me, I tend to make food decisions by thinking as if I’m an “animal” in the wild (not literally; I just consider that animals are naturally healthy in their natural environments with their natural diets).

I take into consideration what foods would’ve been naturally available that I would be instinct-fully attracted to (if we didn’t live in modern society). Then with that in mind, make choices based on what ‘doesn’t make sense’ for our natural state.

Then I keep in mind that our soil is depleted of the minerals that used to be plentiful in our food, and that animals that were once eating a natural diet with mineral-rich plants are now pumped full of antibiotics and other harmful substances, so although I’m not ready to go off-the-grid and start eating off the land, I do try and keep in mind what is ‘unnatural’ for the body and what extra things we can do to get extra-nutrition from our diets, like juicing/smoothies to get more nutrients out of our nutrient-lacking food. But I do go against that theory when I’m taking things like olive oil instead of eating olives in their natural state. We are all brainwashed, but who knows what brainwashing is correct, is it really ok for us to have hundreds of olives processed as an oil?

In a nutshell, I try and have a “reason” for everything that I put into my body, and that reason is always subject to change based on some new study, or a new opinion that makes sense to me, or by noticing the changes (negative & positive) in my health, energy-levels, happiness & general wellbeing.

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