THE OMEGAs are your SECRET KEY to GOOD HEALTH
When you have the keys to the jail cell, are you just going to walk away and not help those who are still locked in there? I think not. My insight stems from overcoming a severe digestive medical illness few ever triumph against, despite what the medical community told me. In my case the disorder was a life threatening case of IBD, more specifically a case of ulcerative colitis. I cured the incurable if you will through my remedies and faith.

But why, dear reader, even reach the point of requiring a “remedy”? As an unknown source said: “A healthy man has a thousand dreams but a sick man has only one.” Don’t be that sick man or woman. Be the best that you can be and you can achieve this greatness in your body and have those thousand dreams. You can do this through little understood/known “secrets” for lack of a better term.
Secrets for a plethora of reasons. Perhaps the industry doesn’t want us to know about them or the topics are too complex with out proper guidance. Knowledge is power. We want these secrets revealed in an easily understood manner.
Good health is a mind/body/spirit connection. There are many secrets, not just physically, but mentally and spiritually. Eventually we will uncover more and more of them.
It is a journey and we will start that journy today with an explanation and a reveal of the Omega’s.
There are two kinds of essential fatty acids in your body: Omega 3 and Omega 6. They are essential because we can’t make them in our bodies. They have to come from what we eat. While we need certain amounts of both Omegas 3 and 6, we also need them in a certain ratio to maximize their functionality. We want to prevent health problems caused by too much of a good thing. Even though they are essential, we still don’t want too much of either one.
We don’t want too much of a good thing because these two Omegas are enemies. Omega 6 causes inflammatory reactions while Omega 3 is anti-inflammatory. One tries to undo the other and yet both are necessary. What to do, what to do?


For instance, inflammation can be a proper response to environmental stress or tissue damage, but left to run wild it can do significant harm. Omega 6 acids might be thought of as a scout whose job it is to go out and start fires so the rest of the body can see the smoke signals. Omega 3 is the person following them making sure the fire gets under control once everybody receives the message. Here is the problem at least in America: our diets are too heavy on the Omega 6 side of the equation. One of the biggest culprits for this is likely the use of vegetable oils, which, with few exceptions (i.e. flaxseed) are extremely high in Omega 6. That gets passed into any food cooked in those oils.
In addition, most people eat grain rather than grass fed meat. Although meats, in general, are decently balanced sources of fatty acids, grain fed meats not so much. Plus there is a lack of fish in the standard diet (fish are extremely high in omega-3). When factored in with the large amount of food people eat cooked in oils, this adds up to a considerably unbalanced Omega 6 to Omega 3 ratio.
Estimates of the size of this unbalanced Omega 6 to Omega 3 ratio vary considerably but numbers ranging 15:1 to 40:1 are fairly standard. Yes, that is a large gap. I did say they vary! How much should a person be getting? A good question considering that yet again the number varies as experts disagree. Some say equal parts (1:1) but the majority say around 4 or 5:1. All agree on no more than 10:1 (ten parts Omega 6 to Omega 3). This means your average American is getting in a best case scenario 50% more Omega 6 than they should be, and worst case scenario 4000%! No wonder our rates for inflammatory diseases (Autoimmune diseases, IBD, atherosclerosis, myopathies, allergies, and even possibly depression) are on the rise.
Now, given what we know about rising inflammatory disease rates in America, the American diet, and the necessary balance between these essential fatty acids, doesn’t it make sense that perhaps a significant health benefit could be gained from one basic underlying principle: correcting a nutritional imbalance? We are not rocket scientists here at www.elightenmetoday.org (although I am an electrical engineer), but doesn’t that sound reasonable to you, Dear Reader?
But I digress. We should all be getting more Omega 3 in our diets or at least less Omega 6 (so reduce your vegetable oil use for starters). Otherwise, what are some good sources of Omega 3? The best and most widely known is seafood, especially fatty, oily fish like salmon. Flax and chia seeds are the best plant sources. Leafy foods, like spinach and lettuce, offer decent ratios of Omega 3. Meats from grass fed animals are good sources as well.
