Omega 3's and Osteoporosis

Sep 1, 2017

In this video, Dr. Susan Brown talks about the importance of omega 3 fatty acids in your diet for optimal bone health. As a PhD bone health nutritionist, she is an expert in bone building diets. Essential fatty acids are just one of the many nutrients involved in optimal bone and overall health. This video will teach you the basics of the relationship between your intake of essential fatty acids such as EPA and DHA and your bones.

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Transcription:
hi everyone this dr. Susan brown
director of the Center for better bones
and the better bones foundation it's
really my pleasure to be with you again
today to discuss issues of importance to
bone health as you know we here at the
Center for better bones has spent
decades researching the best natural way
to maintain and regenerate bone health
we've championed over the years the fact
that there's many nutrients important to
bone health and we've identified 20 key
bone nutrients many vitamins many
minerals they're absolutely essential
and today we're going to talk about
another nutrient group that is totally
essential for bone health and that is
the essential fatty acids we often think
of vitamins and minerals we don't so
much think of fats as being really
important to our health but they're
extremely important to overall health
and very important to bone health now
the essential fatty acids just as the
name would suggest our fatty acids that
the body cannot produce itself these are
basic building blocks like vitamins that
we need to consume in the diet there's
different types of essential fatty acids
so let's talk about those just a little
so we can put into perspective the
particular topic of the omega-3 fats one
very important group of essential fatty
acids and what today I'm essentially
going to talk about is the value of
omega-3 fats and why it's important to
get a fairly high quantity of omega-3
fats in your diet for very good bone
health and to prevent fracture as you
age but first let's look at the whole
picture of essential fats just really
quickly essential fats are divided into
two groups what we call the omega-6
essential fats in the omega-3 and these
have to do with the composition with the
carbon change the carbon chains the
makeup of these two certif adds the
omega-6 fats are from the vegetable oils
things like sunflower oil and safflower
oil soy oil and corn oil
these common vegetable oils that are
very high in our diet we consume a lot
of them in all of the processed foods
and it often in the foods we make and
the interesting thing is these omega-6
fats are often damaged they're damaged
in the food processing where chemicals
are used to extract the oils where
solvents are used when they aren't
stored or handled properly so many of
these oils we're going to see carries
some negative implications down chain as
they're metabolized by the body there
are of course nuts and seeds that are
always great sources of the omega-6 fats
like pine nuts one of my favorite nuts
these lovely little pine nuts like
sesame seeds again a very healing see
these are black sesame seeds but there's
white there's hold and unhold sesame
seeds and things like pecans and of
course these nuts when they're fresh and
whole will have a very healthy fat that
hasn't been damaged so these are the
omega-6 fats and they do a particular
action in the body and then there's the
omega-3 fats now when you hear omega-3
you probably think fish oils and indeed
these fish oils are the major source ofomega-3 fatty acids are a really
wonderful source and a source that we
have consumed through our evolution for
thousands of years so you have fish oils
you also have flax as an omega-3 and
many people talk about flax people
always say to me well can I eat flax for
my omega-3 is that adequate will that
protect bone I'm going to talk about the
difference between fish oil and flax oil
in a second another popular seat is chia
these lovely little chia seeds these
have a significant amount of omega-3 and
walnuts have a bit of omega-3 for
example again another lovely nut you can
get in whole form that has some omega-3
we're going to talk about the difference
between the fish oil omega-3s which is
really what I'm suggesting that we
consume more of of course all of these
seeds would be great plants and ham Chia
but we're going to talk particularly...