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Olive Oil Health Benefits You Should Know

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 I want to talk to you about why olive oil is such an important part of our protocol, and it's kind of deceivingly simple. People think it's a little strange and, but quite honestly, olive oil is one of the major protective components that gives the strength to the Mediterranean diet, alright.  That olive oil and the fish oil, but fish oil I will talk about it in another blog. So,olive oil, so let's, here's the background: one, when we were Stone Age humans we would eat plants and animals, things like that, and we had this balance of what are called omega fatty acids. So you have Omega-6 fatty acids that turn oninflammation, you have Omega-3 fatty acids that turn OFF inflammation, alright, and we need some of each of these, roughly 1:1 ratio some wherearound there. And so, if you sprained your ankle as a caveman, so to speak, you needed the Omega-6's to turn on inflammation, and then once the damage is repaired you have these Omega-3's that help shut off the rep...