Peter Attia· MD
the bigger place to move the needle is if you can increase the epa and DHA in your diet not necessarily get all hung up on omega-6
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the bigger place to move the needle is if you can increase the epa and DHA in your diet not necessarily get all hung up on omega-6
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what I don't like about AAA EPA ratio or omega-6 to omega-3 is it distracts people from the real problem which is the lack of epa and DHA it lets them run and say okay well I can I can fix my ratio by eating less than mega six and not eating more omega-3 that doesn't help whereas if you just look at the omega-3 index EPA DHA that's your focus it's too low fix it raise it up everything else will settle out
Bill's point was that the omega-6 polyunsaturated fats aren't harmful it's just the diets that are rich in them tend to be void in epa and DHA so his real takeaway was don't think about omega-6 apply inside short of fats you just need to add more epa and DHA in that's the issue
the way to fix it there's only one way to fix it's a good way to fix this to eat more epa dha that's fine if you want to play that ratio game and fix it that way okay but don't take it any further than that