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Arachidonic Acid
30 Apr 2022
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Arachidonic Acid (AA) appears in Essential Fatty Acid (EFA) pathways. In this video, Dr Greger explains:

Arachidonic acid may play a role in cancer, asthma, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and other autoimmune disorders.

(2011) Inflammatory Remarks about Arachidonic Acid

(2 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "Arachidonic acid may play a role in cancer, asthma, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and other autoimmune disorders."

(2011) Chicken, Eggs, & Inflammation

(1 min) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "Chicken and eggs are the top sources of arachidonic acid in the diet — an omega-6 fatty acid involved in our body's inflammatory response."

(2015) Plant-Based Diets for Improved Mood and Productivity

(6 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "The most comprehensive controlled trial of diet and mood finds that a plant-based nutrition program in a workplace setting across ten corporate sites significantly improves depression, anxiety, and productivity."

(2010) Plant-Based Diet & Mood

(2 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "The putative role of arachidonic acid, a fatty acid found in animal products, in mood alteration as a result of brain inflammation."

(2011) Improving Mood Through Diet

(4 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "The purported role arachidonic acid plays in brain inflammation could explain why eliminating chicken, fish, and eggs may improve symptoms of mood disturbance, depression, anxiety, and stress within two weeks."

(2016) How to Counter the Inflammation of Aging

(4 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "What can we eat to combat 'inflamm-aging,' the chronic low-grade inflammation that accompanies the aging process?"

(2016) Should We All Take Aspirin to Prevent Cancer?

(9 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "The aspirin compounds naturally found in plant foods may help explain the lower cancer rates among those eating plant-based diets."

(2011) Chicken's Fate is Sealed

(2 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "The egg industry is attempting to improve the fatty acid lipid profile of eggs by feeding blubber from the Canadian harp seal hunt to laying hens."

Dr Brooke Goldner

Dr Brooke Goldner has a healing protocol centered around green smoothies for autoimmune conditions. She chooses only flax and chia for EFAs (Essential Fatty Acids). Why?

(7 mins, 2017) Why Bone Broth & Eggs are More Likely to Kill You than to Heal You

An insightful video by Dr Brooke Goldner - she explains why she chooses only flax & chia for EFAs (Essential Fatty Acids); no land animals; no processed foods; no other nuts n seeds, for her green-smoothie centric healing protocol for autoimmune conditions.

Her reasoning centers around the idea that a high Omega-6 to Omega-3 ratio in our diet promotes the Omega-6 → AA (Arachidonic Acid) pathway over the Omega-3 → DHA/EPA pathway.

(3 mins) Why Not Eat FISH For Omega-3?

Now flax & chia have an unusually high Omega-3 to Omega-6 ratio. When coupled with removal of land animals, processed foods, nuts and seeds from our diet, our total Omega-3 to Omega-6 ratio through diet swings in favor of Omega-3's.

… but why not eat fish (marine animals) which have high Omega-3 to Omega-6 ratio for the same purpose? Dr Goldner explains that fish is highly polluted with POPs, PCBEs, …

(2 mins, 2020) Eat Nuts & Avocados For Disease Reversal?

Dr Goldner mentions that avocados have an adverse Omega-3 to Omega-6 ratio relative to each other. However, the total quantity of EFAs (Omega-3 and Omega-6) is not too large in absolute terms. And in her experience, those who adopted her green-smoothie centric healing protocol along with avocados experienced great results, including weight loss.

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