Next to water, which makes up about 70% of the total weight of a human adult, and 84% of that of a newborn infant, fat is the most abundant substance found in our body. We may not like that, but
As body, you fight, flee, freeze or withdraw
As survival mind, you assess change and then decide on actions for the body to take to optimize your chance of survival
As creative mind, you design strategies for
No matter how well you plan your days, projects, journeys, company trajectories and life, something unexpected always happens. An unforeseen emergency emerges. You don’t see it coming, so you’re not prepared, and it can easily become dangerous or deadly. You
Survival smarts is the fifth key part of total health designed by nature. You contend daily with survival issues that take place between your body and a friendly or unfriendly outside world. Survival issues include protection, safety, clothing and shelter.
Plants make enzymes that ‘insert’ a double bond into (desaturate) fatty acids at positions w3 and w6 to make w3 and w6 fatty acids, but humans do not produce these enzymes. This means that LA and LNA are not essential
To unfold some of their functions, LA and LNA must first be converted into EFA derivatives, or into prostaglandins. These conversions require vitamins B3, B6 and C and the minerals magnesium and zinc. Other vitamins and minerals may also modify
Much is still unknown about the functions of EFAs in our body. Of the two, LA has been studied far more extensively than LNA. Both are difficult to work with, because they are easily destroyed, but LNA is five times
Impressive work is being done with vitamins, minerals and EFAs in the treatment of degenerative diseases. Much is being learned, and people are being relieved of degenerative afflictions that resist treatment with drugs, surgery, and radiation.
Gaps in Knowledge
Although
Since deficiencies are widespread, we might well ask why this is so. Without going into a long explanation, let us examine what happens when whole wheat grain is turned into white flour. The following table shows the percentages of essential
One might expect that diets in affluent industrial nations would also be nutritionally affluent, but this is not the case. Even though we have the necessary technology, money is not usually a problem, and we have both time and choices,