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We have heard you say that the ultra-refined EPA and DHA concentrates are as close to a medical miracle as we’ll see in the 21st century. Would you explain that? |
You mentioned that it takes about 100 gallons of the health store grade omega-3 to produce only one gallon of the ultra-refined omega-3 you produce. Is that really possible? |
How well does the medical community understand the whole issue and the importance of purity in omega-3s? |
What else is being done to educate the medical professionals of our country on the need for high levels of ultra-refined omega-3? |
What can we do as consumers to help balance the ratio of omega-3 and omega-6 consumption? |
Is flaxseed oil an effective way to get a daily dose of omega-3? |
Eating the wrong foods and consuming too much omega-6 can cause inflammation in our bodies. Explain this silent inflammation. |
How does this silent inflammation start inside of someone? |
Where does the omega-3 fat get its anti-inflammatory qualities? |
Can you share a pivotal study on pigs that put omega-3 research on the front burner? |
We are still hearing a lot about cholesterol being the big thing behind heart disease, but that’s not really the truth, is it? |
Can someone be overweight and healthy? |
Would you explain the impact of these unique ultra-refined omega-3s and how they improve the immune system? |
What impact, if any, do these powerful ultra-refined omega-3s have on the wasting away period of terminally ill cancer and AIDS patients? |
What happens to the immune systems as we age? |
Why does our immune system get weaker as we age? |
You have worked with top athletes. How does your plan in taking these ultra-refined omega-3s help Olympic medalists? |
I was brought up believing that a big carbohydrate meal the night before a big track meet was good for you. Is that good science? |
What results are researchers at Harvard Medical School finding on the impact of ultra-refined omega-3s on depression, including bipolar depression? |
Have studies been able to detect low levels of omega-3s in the bodies of patients with depression? |
Are there other parts of the world that have long life spans and minimal incidents of depression and heart disease? And if there are, what characterizes those people? |
Can we, through ultra-refined omega-3, give Alzheimer's patients help and hope? |
Some Alzheimer's patients at an assisted living facility in Florida experienced dramatic results by this new knowledge of omega-3 fatty acids. Could you share some of these findings with us? |
Would you talk more about the testimony of one of these Floridian assisted living patients? |
What kind of attention is the American Heart Association giving to people aware of omega-3 for the heart? |
Dr. Sears, what are your closing thoughts? |
In 1995 your diet was simply called The Zone Diet. In the 21st century, it is now the omega-3 Zone Diet because of your strong emphasis on highly pure and refined omega-3 fatty oils. Why have you become such a supporter of this type of oil, the purified omega-3s, as part of your regular diet routine? |
Well, actually, I’ve always been a very strong supporter of omega-3 fatty acids. The reason why is because they control a group of hormones called eicosanoids. These are the hormones that control inflammation. I stated earlier that if you control inflammation, you control your future. Until recently, there was not the ... |
We hear in the news that fish is good for us, but we also hear that it’s bad for us. What do you see is going on behind this confusion? |
The reason we hear that fish is good for us is because it’s rich in these omega-3 fatty acids that can help us control inflammation. That is the good news. Why are we hearing that fish is bad for us? Because all fish in the world today are contaminated, contaminated with the mercury, the PCBs, and the dioxins that we p... |
We have two basic types of Omega fats. If you would, explain those two types and why they are considered essential fatty acids. |
We have to go back in history probably about 80 years when they first did the experiments of taking all fats out of the diets to see what would happen to animals. What happened was pretty striking: they died. They added back certain fats, and then the animals lived. At the time, those fats were called vitamin F. Now we... |
How has our diet changed in the last 70 years? |
Probably the major change in our diet in the last 70 years has been a growing imbalance in the increasing levels of omega-6 fatty acids with a corresponding decrease in omega-3 fatty acids. Keep in mind that two generations ago, standard issue for every child was a tablespoon of cod liver oil. Disgusting as it was, it ... |
Doctor, if you would, explain to us the agricultural revolution of the 1900s and what impact that had on our diet. |
Well, the revolution of the 1900s had a great impact on society as we now have greater mechanization. We basically have far greater production to feed grains than we really had before, and that gave rise to a growing percentage of grains and starches in our diets. At the same time, this mechanization allows us to extra... |
Approximately what drop in percentage has America seen in our consumption of omega-3s since the turn of the twentieth century? |
In the last hundred years, we can now estimate the amount of the long-chain omega-3 fatty acids in our diet has dropped by some 95 percent. That’s a dramatic reduction. That basically is right there the greatest public health disaster in the twentieth century, the fact that our decreased amounts of omega-3 fatty acids ... |
Would you explain for us the difference between the new pharmaceutical grade, or “ultra refined,” omega-3 fish oils and what you typically find in a health food store? |
Well, as I said earlier, I have always been a very, very strong proponent of omega-3 fatty acids. But I’ve always been limited for the amount I could recommend for someone to add to their diet because of the toxins involved in that. That’s why this new breakthrough in refining technology occurred only three years ago. ... |
If it’s not ultra-refined, and it’s the kind that you’re getting from these health food stores, this so-called “sewer of the sea” that you mentioned, I would assume that fish oil could actually be doing them more harm than help. |
That’s definitely the case because these toxins are known carcinogens, known neurotoxins. These toxins are kind of like the roach motel – once they check in to your body, they don’t check out. That’s why we look at societies who basically eat a lot of fish, who have great health benefits like the Japanese, who have the... |
Why are these highly pure, ultra-refined omega-3s so expensive for the consumer? |
Well, as I mentioned earlier, it takes 100 gallons of what you buy in a health food store to make one gallon of this. That doesn’t mean it’s 100 times more expensive. In many ways, it’s not all that more expensive because what you’re paying for is not the fish oil, what you’re paying for are the long-chain omega-3 fatt... |
I had the good fortune of being able to come to your facility in the Boston area not too long ago, and you gave me a teaspoon of the liquid version of the omega-3. You took it right out of the freezer, and for me it was not distasteful. What have you done to make your product so palatable? |
In the process of purifying all the fatty acids and removing all the toxins, we also are able to remove many of the objectionable taste characteristics. We often think of fish oil as something that smells and tastes like cod liver oil, and that has to be the world’s most disgusting food ever developed by mankind. In re... |
Current studies are revealing that a child’s brain needs these ultra-refined omega-3s. Why is that? |
Your grandmother often talked about fish oil as being brain food, and actually she was quite right. About 60 percent of the weight of the brain turns out to be fat, and about 20 percent of that fat are these long-chain fatty acids only found in fish oils. Without those fats, the brain does not function very well. The c... |
These fish oils that are found in the health food stores or the grocery stores, they’re all going to try to market themselves as the very best. People need to know how to make sure they’re buying the best stuff, the right stuff. What tips can you give our listeners that will help them know they’re getting the best? |
Here’s one very easy tip: Take your fish oil and put it in the freezer. If it freezes, it’s probably not the good stuff because the fish oils will tend to freeze because they’re rich in saturated fats that can only be removed by the same refining process that removes the toxins. Here’s another simple test: Bite into it... |
We have heard you say in the past that the ultra-refined EPA and DHA concentrates are as close to a medical miracle as we’ll see in the 21st century. Would you explain that? |
The reason I make that statement – I don’t use the word miracle very often – is because these high potency, high dose omega-3 fatty acids can have such a great impact across the board of virtually every chronic disease state, whether it be heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s, attention deficit disorder, or chronic pain.... |
I want to go back to something you said earlier because it’s amazing to me. This is to help us understand better the high levels of purity and concentration in your product, which you’re actually talking about. You mentioned that it takes about 100 gallons of the health store grade omega-3 to produce only one gallon of... |
It’s not only really possible, it’s actually true. The fact is that the refining technology to get the highly purified materials does have to go through a lot of fish oil. The question is, where does the other 99 gallons go? It turns out that these 99 gallons that are now left behind are now highly enriched in these to... |
I like your term “weapons grade” omega-3, as well. How well does the medical community understand the whole issue and the importance of purity in omega-3s? |
I think it’s pretty clear. I gave a seminar at Harvard Medical School about a year ago to their leading omega-3 fatty acid researchers, and after the seminar, I just asked routinely, “Do any of you take fish oil?” They all said no. I said, “Why not? You all know the benefits.” They agreed and said, “But we’re scared of... |
Besides your telling them personally and telling them in group settings, as you mentioned earlier at the Harvard Medical School, what else is being done to educate the medical professionals of our country on the need for high levels of ultra-refined omega-3? |
I think it’s looking to get to them by writing books and having audio books such as this. If you’re a drug company, you have no vested interest in educating the doctors about the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids. That’s one of the problems. Our doctors are primarily educated, after they leave medical school, by the drug... |
Earlier you told us about the omega-3s and the omega-6s and the imbalance in our society that we have in consuming those fatty acids. If you would, touch a little bit more on that. What is it we can do as consumers to help balance that out? |
As I mentioned earlier, as we basically increase the amount of omega-6 fatty acids in our diet, what we are doing is increasing the amount of inflammation in our bodies. That is the underlying cause of disease, and it is also the underlying cause of the aging process. How can we reverse that? It is very simple. One, we... |
Many people are taking flaxseed oil, believing that they are fulfilling their daily requirement for EPA and DHA. Is that an effective way to get a daily dose of omega-3? |
Not really. Flax does contain omega-3 fatty acids, but they are the much shorter chain varieties that need to be transformed by the body into the long-chain varieties in order to get the anti-inflammatory properties. In the human body, this transformation is very, very slow and very, very inefficient. Our best estimate... |
Dr. Sears, this is the part of the interview that I have most been looking forward to. It’s astonishing to me to hear about all of the great science behind omega-3. But I get really excited when I hear about the vast amounts of research that have already been completed, and are currently underway, as it relates to reve... |
We often make medicine a lot more complicated than it has to be. We find that we have the different doctrines: We have cardiologists, the oncologists, we have neurologists; and each one has their own little fiefdom. But in reality these diseases, and virtually all chronic diseases, have a linkage: They are linked to in... |
It really starts when our hormones stop communicating well with each other. Inflammation is controlled by hormones, particularly the hormones called eicosanoids. As long as they’re talking to each other, the inflammation process is kept under control. But what causes these miscommunication problems between eicosanoids ... |
What it does is basically compete for the omega-6 fatty acids, which are pro-inflammatory. That is, they are the building blocks of those eicosanoids that cause pain, whereas the omega-3 fatty acids inhibit their formation; therefore, they become the building blocks of those eicosanoids that prevent pain. So you need a... |
Can you share with our listeners a pivotal study that I absolutely found astonishing when I first learned about it that put omega-3 research on the front burner: the study on the pigs? |
This was a study that was published nearly 20 years ago in the New England Journal of Medicine. It was a fascinating study because the pictures told a thousand words. This is a study where they took pigs – they get arthrosclerotic lesions similar to humans – and put them on similar diets. I would call it the worst poss... |
As you mentioned, this study was nearly 20 years ago, but we are still hearing a lot on the news about cholesterol really being the big thing behind heart disease. But that’s not really the story, that’s not really the truth. |
Well, it really isn’t. We want to believe theologies. We want to believe that cholesterol is the villain, and if we removed cholesterol from the diet, then we’d all see heart disease dissipate. We heard that story 20 years ago: if we only removed fat from the diet and ate fat-free carbohydrates, we’d all be healthy. It... |
Well the answer is, surprisingly, yes, if -- and that’s a very big if -- you are able to control inflammation. This is a very interesting aspect that we can look at some examples. Let’s look at Winston Churchill. Now, the man was not in great shape. He was definitely overweight. But he was as sharp as a tack and lived ... |
If you would, explain the impact of these unique ultra-refined omega-3s and how they improve the immune system. |
It’s all about communication. That’s why these omega-3 fatty acids can help improve the hormonal communication system that controls how we respond to outside invaders. That’s what the immune system is for, to keep the body operating and at a ready alert to attack outside invaders without attacking ourselves. The omega-... |
Terminally ill patients with AIDS or cancer reach a point known as cachexia where they start suffering extreme weight loss and start wasting away. What impact, if any, do these powerful ultra-refined omega-3s have on this wasting away period? |
In cancer, when a patient gets cachexia and begins wasting away, you know the end is near. And yet, the only drug that’s been able to turn back cachexia and help patients to gain weight is high doses of omega-3 fatty acids because it basically dampens down a certain hormone that is the underlying cause of that cachexia... |
What happens to the immune system as we age? |
Well, one of the things that happens is it becomes dysfunctional. It no longer attacks outside invaders. It begins looking at our own body and attacking that. The reason why is this breakdown of communication. Without an adequate control, which the omega-3 fatty acids provide, once these inflammatory responses are init... |
One of the reasons is because we increase inflammation as we age. We often talk about hormones decreasing as we age, and many do. But certain hormones actually increase. One hormone is insulin. As we age, we get fatter, and as we get fatter, we make more inflammation that the body tries to attack thinking it’s an outsi... |
We talked earlier about you working with some of our nation’s top athletes and Olympic gold medalists. How does your plan in taking these ultra-refined omega-3s help these performers? |
We often think of athletes as the ultimate in wellness. They look great in swimsuits and they’re physically fit, but are they well? The answer is no they are not because they are constantly inflamed. That’s the hallmark of a great athlete. They train too hard; they train too much. But if you can increase that inflammat... |
I was brought up believing, speaking of athletes, that a big carbohydrate meal the night before a big track meet or a big event, whatever that might be, was good for you. I guess that’s not good science, is it? |
No, it turns out that it’s almost just the opposite. When you eat a big carbohydrate meal, what you’re going to do is form a lot of the hormone insulin, and that’s going to drive down blood sugars and do everything possible to reduce your performance the next day. Now, why did this mythology start out? It is true that ... |
What kind of results are researchers at Harvard Medical School experiencing on the impact of ultra refined omega-3s when it comes to depression, including bipolar depression? |
Well, we have an epidemic of obesity in our country and an epidemic of Type II diabetes. We talk about this all the time in the press. But we also have an epidemic of depression. We have more people suffering from depression than suffering from every disease except heart disease. We don’t talk about it, I guess, becaus... |
These studies have been published over and over again showing conclusively that the severity of depression ranks very closely with the low levels of omega-3 fatty acids in the blood. Of course, that makes perfect sense because we know now from intervention studies that when you add back adequate levels of omega-3 fatty... |
There is one population that is the gold standard that we all should strive for, and that is the Japanese. The Japanese have the longest legitimate life span in the world today. The Japanese also have the longest health span, which is longevity minus years of disability. They have the lowest rates of heart disease, the... |
It’s a sad thing when the brain goes out prior to the body. We saw Alzheimer’s, for example, in Ronald Reagan. Can we, through ultra refined omega-3, give these people help? Can we give them hope? |
I think the answer is definitely yes. We have to realize that Alzheimer’s does not start overnight; in fact, it is a disease that was in progress decades earlier. Studies show that those who have higher levels of silent inflammation are three times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s than those who don’t. So if we want ... |
As we wait for this data, we do know that you already have people at an assisted living facility in Florida. Could you share some of this with us? |
Well, it’s some of those testimonies that gave rise to Harvard’s interest in pursuing this study. We had done a study with a colleague of mine at an assisted living center specializing with Alzheimer’s patients. Over a three-year period, with some 300 patients, we found really no further progression toward Alzheimer’s,... |
This assisted living facility was mentioned on a nationwide television broadcast. I think my favorite testimony that came out of that broadcast was a woman who said, “A year ago my husband was living in the facility and couldn’t have told you what a screwdriver is. Today he’s out working on the car.” That to me just su... |
Well, it really does. People say, “It can’t be that easy,” but that’s the amazing thing about fish oils; it very well could be that easy. When you hear these stories, you say, “How can you explain it?” That’s what science does. We know that Alzheimer’s is an inflammatory disease, and if we treat inflammation, Alzheimer... |
Turning our attention away from the brain and onto another part of the body, what kind of attention is the American Heart Association giving to people aware of omega-3 for the heart? |
The American Heart Association is making, at best, at least a stab in that direction. They’re asking people to eat more fish. The people say, “Wait a minute, but the fish are contaminated,” and they say, “That’s right, but don’t eat too much fish.” Their recommendations are at least a movement in the right direction, b... |
Dr. Sears, are there any closing comments that you would like to make? |
The one closing comment that I would like to make is that we have the power to alter the future. We have the power to alter our future by changing the levels of hormones in our body and keeping them there using only food. This is a very powerful statement. It allows us to go full circle, back to the beginnings of moder... |
Basseterre, St. Kitts, April 11, 2019 (SKNIS): A digital transformation strategy aimed at making government more efficient when doing business with the public, private sector and the diaspora is expected to be launched in St. Kitts and Nevis shortly. |
This was announced by the Honourable Vincent Byron Jr, Minister with responsibility for Communications, while addressing members of the diplomatic and consular corps at a lecture on Tuesday, April 09. The lecture formed part of the 2019 edition of Diplomatic Week activities in St. Kitts and Nevis celebrated under the t... |
“It looks at processes, as well as look at the capacity, capabilities of our public servants and so it is being done on the basis of trying to improve and make us more efficient in terms of how we deliver services to people which we hope could also act as a catalyst to inviting foreign direct investments,” said Ministe... |
He noted that in addition to making government more efficient, the idea of upgrading internet speed in the Federation is also being looked at. |
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