So why do we need essential fatty acids we need essential fatty acid, predominantly for weight balance whether we need to increase their weight or lose weight. For appetite balance. It said that when we're low in essential fatty acids, we can actually eat more than twice that we need 60% more when we are low in essential fatty acids. The main purpose of essential fatty acids is to regulate the endocrine system and the nervous system. In fact, essential fatty acids can regulate 200 or more hormones within the system. So if you imagine when the immediate result Oh, the adrenal glands, the thyroid gland, the ovaries, prostate, they all have difficulty with putting out the right hormones in the right balance.

Brain function really is affected with essential fatty acids. So when we have good levels, we have good memory concentration, good energy level is much better. When the essential fatty acids have low, obviously the opposite is occurring in the brain can actually shrink up to 40% if the body is lacking in fatty acids, so it explains why when women in pregnancy, when they're already deficient in essential fatty acids gone to give their party access to their babies, especially through the breastfeeding process, women's brains actually can shrink. It's been shown up in studies that when the scans have come back with pregnant after pregnant women, and women have experienced breastfeeding, their brains can actually shrink up to 40%. But that's all reversible, when we increase water and the fatty acids, particularly d h a, which is an essential factor that's needed in pregnancy and the best breastfeeding process.

So other things that go wrong when we're low and essential fatty acids is because the fats control the frontal lobe of the brain. The effect on the body when we're low in fatty acids is that we have a different perception around how the body looks. So studies have shown when low in fat that can really affect how we perceive our own bodies, therefore linked into eating distress, overeating under eating, and a misinterpretation of how the body looks and actually how the body feels because when we're low in fat, we may retain water, we may feel swollen in certain areas. And so for body image, and emotionally and physically, we rely on our essential fatty acids. A big part of eating distress is the fact that the frontal lobe isn't fully functioning and that starts with lack of fat and also lack of zinc within the system.

So if the brain relies on fat, again, imagine many generations who have been following fat free eating weight loss diets, which involve cutting out a large percentage of fat within the diet that could lead to long term eating distress or even overeating over yo yo dieting longer term. And so to to get that balance hormonally brain function wise, blood sugar wise dad that really sort of healthy skin, then we do need to be thinking about this area. One of the things that's so big in our culture is using a lot of cosmetics, skin treatments, and all sorts of cosmetic skin products in order to get the skins elasticity back and collagen increase. And mega threes and sixes are so effective that they're so when people start taking baths in good volumes, they start to look younger, their skin is glowing. They have that youthful appearance that often they have an ad for years and that will be a good sign of noticing Is the fatty acids up to the right level for the for the body or for the person.

When we start consuming, that's the first thing place that those thoughts will go to his brain, heart, hormonal glands liver function. So the skin may take quite a while to show the benefits of taking essential fats. But I promise you over a period of six months, beginning and then results will be so dramatic. It's such a big key in terms of having a good quality skin in that youthful appearance. So moving on to actually volumes that you would need in the diet, it really depends on the individual. So we'd start with one tablespoon twice a day, or equal to 2000 milligrams of EPA.

And if we were approaching da che, which is for brain function, we would be looking at 500 milligrams to 1000 milligrams. And I'll speak a bit more about the sources of that later on. We're definitely looking at vegetable based oil such as flax, linseed oil, and also the Alleghenies. In regards to regulating blood sugar. I've always found that Linden seeds which have been soaked overnight, as I spoke about earlier, and chia seeds as well as lecithin, which contains phospholipids. I found that that's a really big part of the diet for people who need to regulate blood sugar, but also need to regulate their hormones.

So they can be very, very effective and inexpensive as well as when you starting off with essential fatty acids, easy to digest good for the colon, and the whole of the digestive system. And so when you start to bring them into your diet, you start to see an increase in energy, increasing potential because the cell is happier, and an increase in terms of skin quality and brain function law. So having longevity of good skin and brain function so that you know when we are getting older, we're not actually saying that memories become an issue or finding cognitive function is going down. And if you're under more demand high stress, if you've been studying for exams and using the brain more so than usual, then there may need to be an increase again within this center fatty acids.