On Fri, 4 Aug 2000 15:05:28 -0400, Philip Thrift <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


>Except for regulating the amount of fatty meat, and supplementing
>with omega-3 fish oil, I don't think this means much in practice.
>way.

The fish oil can give you EPA and DHA for series 3 prostaglandins.
Series 2 prostaglandins result from AA which is already high in
meat (possibly too high).
But series 1 prostaglandins, the *real* good guys come to GLA
plus on elongase step (omega-6, but one step before AA).
Therefore GLA supplementation seems adequate (evening primrose...).

> "Fundamentally very different" ? I'm skeptical that it's
>'fundamentally' different in a way that matters all that much.

Beeing deficient in essential fatty acids doesn't matter?
At least is't a matter of volume, requiring several grams of EFAs
in order to reach a EFA percentage like humans must have adapted to
in any back millenium or yearmillion.

Amadeus