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It's difficult if not impossible to increase your intake of omega-3 without increasing your intake of omega-6 even more. I am not sure that's worth it.

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The O3:O6 ratio matters more. And with the right diet it's very easy to get tons of O3 with an excellent O6 ratio (1:4 vs. the 1:10+ of the standard western diet). Vegan with some seeds (hemp, flax, chia, etc.) and a fish oil or algal EPA/DHA supplement will do it quite easily. As long as you use olive/avocado oil over the O6-heavy cooking oils. Other diets are probably also capable of this.

I’m not aware of any compelling evidence that the n3:n6 ratio actually matters as long as you’re meeting the absolute required levels of each.

There was a big push for this hypothesis in the 2010s, but on closer inspection the only research that seemed to support it was where the “low n3:n6 ratio” cohort were there by virtue of low n3, not high n6.

Where studies compare groups of people where ratios were manipulated but both were at adequate levels, I don’t believe we see any evidence of a deleterious effect.

Cool thanks for the correction!

Not sure I understand. Replacing chicken with salmon seems simple. So does eating walnuts.

Linseed oil.

unfortunately the effectiveness from Omega 3 is from DHA and EPA but ALA (seed based omega 3) is minimal effective. Algae based omega 3 might be fine though

Ok, interesting. I did some research about those studies, claiming that. And it seems best to combine Linseed with Fish or Algae!

TBH this sounds way to complicated. How could we survive? My guess is, all the studies are incomplete and flawed in some ways.

" Linseed oil, but not fish oil, leads to a desirable reduction in arachidonic acid (Omega-6) concentration."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240952797_Studie_zu...

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