Dear Member,
Last week, I told you about the benefits of getting the right fats in your diet. You heart and brain depends on them. In fact, every cell in your body relies on a healthy dose of omega-3s to function properly.
But the amount of omega-3s in your food keeps shrinking. Even your “heart-healthy” salmon may not have the omega-3s you need. (And it might contain toxic mercury…)
Now before you ask, “Dr. Sears, why doesn’t salmon have omega-3s anymore…” – let me cut to the chase: Your food supply has been altered.
Salmon used to be one the healthiest foods on the planet. So was a nice fat New York strip! But not anymore. Why? Unless you’re willing to pay $18 to $22 a pound for wild salmon, all the salmon you buy at your local grocery store is “farm-raised.” On these fish farms, salmon are fed cereal grains instead of their natural diet of algae and wild shrimp.
As a result, they develop very high levels of arachidonic acid. This is a fat from the omega-6 family and is highly inflammatory. And inflammation leads to health problems including joint pain and heart disease.
Farm-raised salmon have no access to their natural diet. This changes their physiology. Their flesh simply doesn’t have the omega-3s that wild salmon does. The cereal grains they eat during their “captivity” prevents the natural production of omega-3s. On average, wild salmon has 33% more omega-3s than farm-raised salmon do.1
What’s more, the high levels of omega-6s in farm-raised salmon make the remaining omega-3s almost unusable by your body. The dominant omega-6s take all the conversion enzymes and produce inflammatory compounds. The healthy omega-3s get ignored and are never converted into the anti-inflammatory compounds you really need.
The story with steak and cattle is exactly the same. The steak you eat comes from grain-fed cattle. Which sounds great, except that Nature designed cattle to eat grass – not grains! The result is the same too: Sick animals that produce meat with no natural nutrients, very high amounts of omega-6s and little to no omega-3s.
In the old days, a good steak had more omega-3s than fish! But today, their levels are zip! And this steady decline of omega-3s in your food increases your risk for a host of health problems.
- Heart disease
- Stroke
- Diabetes
- Arthritis
- Depression
- Skin disorders
- Macular degeneration
Of course they do… These are the most common diseases and afflictions of our time. And they’re all preventable – even reversible – when you get a sufficient supply of omega-3s on a daily basis. The kind you get from Dr. Sears’ Brand Cod Liver Oil.
Scores of clinical reports back this up. Here are just a few…
- The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reported a study that showed that fish oil lowers triglyceride levels. Triglycerides are fats in your blood linked to heart disease. The participants took a fish oil supplement or a placebo. Those taking the fish oil had a decrease in triglycerides which reduced their chance of heart disease by 25%. The subjects taking the placebo showed no