As mom always said, there are more fish in the sea.
And, she was right. What mom maybe didn’t know was that when she was giving you a metaphor for love, she was really on to one of the most important things for your health. You need to EAT fish, and lots of them.
DHA is the only lipid (fat) that can turn sunlight into a DC electric current that your body can use for energy. If we don’t have DHA, we lose the electrical current to run our cells. No current means no energy to run our bodies.
Could eating fish be that important?
Let’s take a Squint.
The OG Omega
Our brain is loaded with DHA. Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) is an omega-3 fatty acid that is found in cold-water fish, including tuna and salmon. There is nothing fishy about this. DHA is a clear and perfectly designed fatty acid for our brain to help it work in our natural sun-lit environment. In fact, DHA helps our brain use natural sunlight to operate. The only problem is that our modern food diet — Chick Fil A for example — breaks what we used to know about eating fish. And our modern light diet — inside days and computer nights — completely destroys whatever DHA we do reel in.
From an evolutionary perspective, it all makes sense. As we evolved on the eastern African rift, we had ample access to marine life. This is why human evolution began on the Eastern African rift adjacent to the ocean. DHA for eukaryotes (that’s us) was critical to our evolution. And guess what? DHA is still around. There are more fish in the sea. And they’re waiting for us to catch them and use them to gather electrons for our cell membranes.
Why You Actually Need Omegas
DHA is an essential omega-3 fatty acid, produced by marine algae in the ocean. Unfortunately, we’ve kind of lost the real omega story in the crazy modern world of health fads. “I need to take my Omegas!”. But why? Fish – actual fish – are important because of the massive amounts of electrons they provide. We need these electrons to use sunlight (that was Einstein by the way —> E=MC2.)
And yes, we just name dropped Einstein! We took a Squint and are finally understanding the whole E=MC2 thing, or photoelectric effect. In fact, the workings of DHA (fish) in our body are not only critical to our health but an excellent example of how the photoelectric effect works for us. Put simply, we need electrons flowing on the inside to make use of the sunlight shining on the outside. DHA (with its electrons) is able to respond to light (from the sun) to make a DC electric current in our body using UV frequencies. DHA is concentrated in the eye for this reason. The retina has more DHA in it than any other part of the brain. This means that UV light exposure and ideal DHA levels are a critical balance for human biology.
Have We Always Used Fish for this Purpose?
Yes. For 600 million years, in fact. Electrons from fish in the sea allowed us to use more light from the sun as we evolved. It’s not a coincidence that ocean water covers most of the earth. The ocean was a sea of electrons readily available for us (eukaryotes) to evolve our systems into the humans we are today. The marine food chain – loaded with marine algae – provided an incredibly dense supply of electrons.
Our brain is constantly trying to maintain the DHA levels it needs. DHA turnover is a big deal. We are electrical beings (that require a net negative electrical charge) and we need to keep our DHA stores readily available to gather more negatively-charged electrons. Without DHA, our brain cannot make the most of sunlight and turn it into the electrical current we need to drive our body’s operations. DHA + Sunlight creates a smart human brain, an electrically charged power starter.
Is DHA Just For The Brain?
No. DHA is not only active in your brain but all across your cell membranes. DHA allows light to interact with our lipid/protein lattices in cell membranes. Much of the energy our brain consumes is tied to the phospholipid recycling necessary for us to have healthy cell membranes.
DHA works everywhere and can turn light into a DC electric current, or turn the current into light again. At night, in the absence of sun, light is still active in our central nervous system but in a different way (we store light and emit ELF-UV light…we’ll get to this later). All you need to know right now: eat fish.
Fish allowed our bodies to evolve, and we keep needing fish to this day. The DHA electron effect has been tested by nature for over 600 million years. Nature has never replaced DHA as the key nutrient for creating the DHA/Light DC electric current. Thankfully, our oceans have also lasted over 600 million years, so we seem to be in good shape if we keep eating our fish.
What Has Changed?
The light we allow. We evolved using electrons from the ocean but have introduced new schools of light that actually destroy these electrons. Blue light in the pupil at night destroys DHA in the retina. Blue light destroys DHA in the cell membranes of the eyes and the skin. Pretty much everything we use daily – indoor LED lighting, TV screens, IPads, phones – are all sources of blue, DHA-crushing light.
The fact is we need to check out of our technology-driven life and eat more fish. If you live in the modern world, and you spend time on screens, you have no choice but to eat more fish. Just eat seafood, any kind you can get your hands on: oysters, clams, salmon, tuna. As long as you are living a tech life, you need more seafood than ever before.
So What Pills Should I Get?
Oh right, you want to fill up that Amazon cart again?? Stick with nature. When you extract DHA from the tissues of fish and throw it in a supplement, oxygen gets in the mix. This oxidizes the DHA. The benefit of real fish is how it presents itself in nature – with all the other antioxidants that come with it: iodine, selenium, etc. Worried about mercury? Remember, nature’s designs work, perfectly. And fish is no exception. The iodine and selenium in fish help minimize any negative effect of the mercury. It’s all there for a reason, balanced naturally. Consume nature as it comes. And while you’re at it, consume every bit of sun that arrives in nature, all day long, with the perfect wavelengths at the perfect time.
Remember, You Can’t Fool Mother Nature
Don’t forget what mom tells you either! Mom’s wisdom doesn’t just apply to your romantic relationships. When it comes to your health, eat more fish from the sea. Take your mom’s advice, and ours, and have your next blind date at a seafood restaurant and dine al fresco, in the sun. Your body and brain will thank you, and you’ll be smart enough to know if a second date is worth your time.
Thank you for taking a Squint with us! Don’t forget to print out our checklist to stay on top of getting your DHA.