In 1865, ancestral linoleic acid (omega-6) intake was less than 1% of calories, approximately 2.2 grams per day.

“in 1865 omega-6 linoleic acid less than one percent of calories and 2.2 grams a day 1865.”

“1909 we know it's the next data available comes from um Tonya blasball and we know that by then we had a little bit of cotton seed oil and we had soybean oil we had about nine grams of vegetable oils per day and our total La consumption had doubled there's the graph so we were at 2.4 grams of omega-6 linoleic acid in 1909 that's 2.23 percent of consumption right of total calories”

“we had extra ordinarily low levels of omega-6 linoleic acid because we didn't have any seed oils in the diet until right after the American Civil War beginning about 1866 we got cotton seed oil that was the first seed oil that Americans had ever seen and they weren't really ready to accept it but what we did was let's get back you know staying with the omega-6 theme is that we modeled the diet of Americans in 1865 and you know you know you could do this too this is not that hard to do when you when you have things to help you like chronometer and you know about the out the amount of La in grass-fed meats and Mill you know milk and purely ancestrally raised animals and all that so we looked at this 1865 Americans and they were consuming about 2.2 to 2.6 grams of La per day now in the book um I used the figure 2.2 grams which is about one percent but it might be 1.1 percent we're splitting hairs here okay in terms of the omega-6 linoleic acid consumption in 1865.”