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How much EPA and DHA you get from 1 capsule of Clary Sage seed oil ?

In fact, your liver can convert five times more DHA daily than your brain is capable of absorbing with one small capsule of...Read More

You know omega-3 fatty acids are good for you, and you want to add more to your diet – but there’s conflicting information out there on which sources are the best for you and why.

 

Some claim fish oil is best, others insist it’s through plant-based sources, and still some recommend krill oil. What’s missing from the current debate, is that we tend to not give our bodies the credit they deserve. Our bodies are wonderfully powerful in their abilities to process nutrients. The refocus on holistic approaches to health and the idea that food is medicine, is a direct reflection of us beginning to give our bodies the respect they deserve. 

 

We also tend to have a reductionist view of our health.

 

Consider the saturated fat debate. It was so easy for us to jump to the conclusion that “fat intake = fat on the body” and so for the past 60 years, we’ve incorrectly blamed fat for clogging our arteries and making us fat.

 

We were too fast to eliminate all fat from our diets, and now, as we begin to understand that the fat equation isn’t that simple – because of our body’s ability to transform nutrients into substances best for our optimal health – fat is making a comeback.

 

So, if you suspect there’s more to it than “take as many omega-3s as you can” and “omega-3 intake = omega-3s in the body...”

 

You’re right.

 

We’ve taken the easy way out in the omega-3 debate and it’s time to set the record straight.

The Three Omega-3s and What They Do

ALA
EPA
DHA
ALA-(alpha-linolenic acid) 

 

  • Sourced from plant base oil such as Clary Sage seed oil, walnuts oils.

  • Essential Fatty Acid

  • Support heart health and cardiovascular health

  • Responsible for creation of brain cholesterol

  • Can convert to EPA and DHA

  • Is able to pass trough the BBB ( Blood Brain Barrier)

EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) 
  • Usually sourced from fish oil
  • Responsible for the creation of anti-inflammatory agents.

  • Support heart health and cardiovascular health

  • Can convert to DHA

DHA (docosahexaenoic acid)

  • Usually sourced from Alga

  • Target organ  the brain and the retina of the eye

  • Is able to pass trough the BBB ( Blood Brain Barrier)

How Your Body Creates EPA & DHA

Essential nutrients are nutrients that cannot be synthesized by your body, and therefore, must be acquired through supplementation or through your food.

 

Now here’s the point many seem to miss…

 

ALA is the only essential nutrient of the three omega-3 fatty acids. 

 

And why’s that?

 

Your body is capable and very good at synthesizing EPA and DHA with ALA.

 

In fact, your liver can convert five times more DHA daily than your brain is capable of absorbing with one small capsule of  excellent non oxidize plant-based omega-3 fatty acids. And that’s on the lowest end of the spectrum – most people are capable of converting much more. 

 

Our bodies are very good at making DHA from ALA. Even premature babies have the ability to synthesize health levels of DHA from ALA (in studies where they were only given ALA and no DHA).

 

In fact, a 1998 study revealed that the brains of fetuses have the ability to convert ALA to DHA without the help of the liver.

 

A good source of omega-3 ALA can provide the human body the exact amount of DHA it needs.

ALA
EPA
DHA

    7 Science-Backed Facts       About ALA, EPA, & DHA    

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  1. Your brain can only absorb a maximum of 3.8 mg of DHA per day -Your body’s ALA to DHA conversion rate (1 percent of the daily recommended intake - 2 grams of ALA) ends up creating 20 mg of DHA – and that’s using numbers on the low end of the spectrum, as if we were looking at a person who has a pretty low ALA to DHA conversion rate. And even if you were to consume 2000 mg of DHA through fish oil per day, your brain would still only be able to absorb that 3.8 mg per day, which can be synthesized easily by your body. This means, the less-than-average body is able to convert 5 times more DHA than your brain is capable of absorbing It’s this fact, the seemingly small numbers involved in the conversion from ALA to DHA, that has people claiming that our bodies need more DHA. But only focusing on the low conversion rate completely ignores how much your brain is able to absorb in the first place.

  2. The half-life of DHA in the human brain is 2.5 years.-This a major contributor as to why you don’t need massive quantities to maintain optimum levels of DHA in your brain. DHA remains in your brain for long periods of time, which helps maintain your baseline.

  3. Vegan convert more EPA and DHA than fish eaters -A study that examined vegans who didn’t eat fish, found that their levels of EPA and DHA were similar to people that eat fish. In fact, the vegans appeared to have better ALA to DHA conversion rates than the fish eaters.

  4. Human can increase their ability to convert EPA and DHA -Studies have found that mammals have the ability to increase their ALA to DHA conversions when there’s more readily available ALA omega-3s in their diet. In one study on rats, the conversion rate was between 6 to 10 times higher when ALA was increased (and with no DHA in the diet at all).   The conclusion of these last two studies is that your body can improve its ALA to DHA conversion rates when there’s DHA lacking in your diet or when you have ample ALA – a concept that makes sense of the fact that women of childbearing age have ALA to DHA conversion rates 2 to 9 times higher than men. It’s thought that women’s conversion rates increase around childbearing years because DHA is important to fetal development.

  5. ALA, unlike EPA and DHA, directly competes with omega-6s for enzymes, which positively impacts your ever-important omega-3 to omega-6 ratio. And when linoleic acid (an omega-6 fatty acid) consumption is decreased the body converts more ALA to DHA.

  6. Better conversion Studies indicate that if you take a plant-based omega-3 supplement, daily, for eight weeks your body converts more than enough DHA and EPA.

  7. Enough DHA Your body relies on ALA to maintain healthy DHA levels. It actually stores enough ALA to maintain optimum DHA levels for over a month. This is your body’s way of protecting you from periods of time where you might not be able to get enough ALA or DHA.

Supplement Smarter, Not Harder –Our choice Naturesage Omega-3 Clary Sage Seed Oil

 

Similar to other concentrated health remedies, once we find out something is good for us, we tend to chug ridiculous amounts of that new miracle substance with little regard for what’s actually necessary.

 

Science has shown that this is completely unnecessary when it comes to omega-3s.

 

This is why we stand by Naturesage Omega-3 supplements. sourced from a unique  variety of Clary Sage seed oil They provide your body with the ALA need to create DHA for optimum brain health. We believe in supplementing smarter, not harder.
Naturesage an incredible stable supplement and is the most environmentally friendly option available.

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