All Podcast Nutrition Supplements By Carlyle Coash Share BETTER EYE HEALTH PODCAST - EPISODE 13Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:36 — 4.8MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS | More Everyone needs DHA, and most of us need more than we are getting. DHA is one of the essential fatty acids, meaning human beings need to eat it, since they cannot make it. DHA is an omega-3 essential fatty acid with a carbon chain containing 20 carbon atoms. (The “docosa” in docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is the Greek word for 20.) We get DHA directly from eating algae, or from eating things that exist in the food chain that begins with algae, like krill and fish. Most of the omega-3 essential fatty acids in our diet come from plant sources, and these have a carbon skeleton with 16 or 18 carbon atoms, i.e. linolenic acid. Human beings can convert smaller chain omega-3 fatty acids to the long-chain omega-3 fatty acids like DHA, but for every milligram of DHA we make in this internal conversion process, we need to eat 1000 mg of a shorter chain essential fatty acid. One quarter of the weight of our retina and brain is DHA! If you are trying to regenerate damaged tissues in your eyes, eat more DHA regularly.As always you will find the link to the Podcast, as well as the full transcript. You can also download a PDF of the transcript down at the bottom the page. Enjoy! Do We Need More DHA? TRANSCRIPT FOR BEH PODCAST EPISODE 13DO WE NEED MORE DHA?Participant: I was wondering about the DHA since you were talking about that tonight. Should my son just be taking one of those a day or should he be taking more?Dr. Miller: Not more, he should take one dose of one of the Super DHA. One of those capsules has about 1,000 mg of fish oil and about 500 mg of DHA. For many people, kids or adults, one is enough. Now your son, remind me of his age again.Participant: He’s 24.Dr. Miller: Alright, 24, so he’s obviously an adult. Basically any child over the age of 6 is going to be taking an adult dose. But the dose we start people at is 1. The things that might make me suggest that you start taking two would be dry eyes, problems with irritation in the eyes or problems with night vision. Those things are where I would suggest increasing the dose from 1 to 2 to maybe even 3.Participant: Well he has terrible night vision. His night vision for sure and then coming in from outside into the house in the daytime even if the house is dark.Dr. Miller: Yeah, and the lutein is even more important for that, but those are some of the earlier things that will change. So those are changes that you want to be looking for, so you know the program is working for him.Participant: I’m looking. (laughs)Dr. Miller: Okay, thank you. Downloads BETTER EYE HEALTH PODCAST - EPISODE 13DOWNLOAD DO WE NEED MORE DHA?BETTER EYE HEALTH PODCAST - EPISODE 13DOWNLOAD TRANSCRIPT
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