The Essential Role of Fatty Acids in Health

Hi everybody, I'm Dr. Sanda Moldovan, periodontist and nutritionist. Welcome to the Holistic Dentistry Podcast, the show that gives you the tips and tools to detoxify your mouth for a healthier body as we explore together the root cause of disease. Remember, you're not healthy until your mouth is healthy, so take care of it in the most in a natural way. Hi everyone. Welcome to another episode on the Holistic Dentistry Show. I'm your host, Dr. Sanda Moldovan, and today's topic is essential fatty acids, omega-3, 6, and 9. And you might be wondering, well, some of them are bad, some of them are good, but here to demystify this topic is the legendary Udo Erasmus. I remember taking his oils 20 years ago, sprinkle them on my salad or just take them with a tablespoon and just drink them. Mr. Udo Erasmus pioneered the work in health and wellness started over 40 years ago as a prominent voice of healthy fats and oil movement. Udo invented the methodology and machinery to create healthy oils, including healthy flaxseed oil. And we can go into what is unhealthy flaxseed oil. In 1994, he co-founded the Udo's Choice supplement brand. A global leader in cutting-edge health products specializing in healthy oils, probiotics, digestive enzymes, and greens. Furthermore, you can read Udo's books. Some of them are Your Body Needs an Oil Change. I love that one. Great title. Then we have Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill, which sold over 250,000 copies. So thank you so much, Udo, for being on our show today.

Well, thank you for having me. It's gonna be fun.

Yes, for sure. Is it the first time on a dental podcast? On a holistic dentistry show?

Well, we've worked with dentists, but, uh, I don't think I've done a podcast with a dentist yet.

Well, I love it that you work with dentists because it's so, so important, right? We're dealing with chronic inflammation in the mouth. It's super important to have the right essential fatty acids. But I'm curious how you started in this work.

Well, I I came out of the Second World War in Europe. I was born in 1942, so I'm going to be 84 this year.

Happy birthday many more years.

And before I was 3, I had already had the privilege of being a war baby, a refugee, and an orphan.

Wow.

Other than that, there wasn't much going on.

No. That taught me a lot though, I'm sure.

And so what happened, we lost everything, like everything. We, my parents came from Latvia and Estonia and we lost the farm. We lost the house. We lost the country. We lost the culture. Basically all we were left with was the clothes we had on, the body in those clothes and the life in that body and everything else, the culture, the religion, all that stuff. And I grew up kind of like bare bones. In a sense. I didn't trust the government. I didn't trust the religion. I couldn't trust my parents. They left me behind. And they had to make that choice. So I'm not beating them up for it. But what I got really early is anything that can change will. So don't try to get constancy from what changes. And so then I was really insecure and I was always trying to figure out how things work. I can't believe how many things I wrecked when I was a kid trying to figure all that out. How's the world work? Because that gives you, when you know how things work, that gives you a certain amount of predictability and control, and that's good for security. So I was like a born scientist. And I got into biological sciences because I find life is fascinating. I mean, every part of it, wherever you go, it's like, oh my God, I wanted to know everything I could about it on every level, not as a job, but just so I, just to deepen my appreciation for nature, for life, for things. So, so that's how I got, and then I eventually, I left university. I was in biochemistry and genetics. I left. I didn't find there what I was looking for because I was looking for something. And what I really was looking for was looking for myself, right?

Yes, yes, absolutely.

And, uh, and, and then I got married and we had 3 kids and my marriage broke up and I wanted to kill something because I was really upset because they're supposed to be for life. That's what I was told. That's what I thought. It was like a good idea. And I got a job as a pesticide sprayer because when you spray pesticides, they're only for killing things.

I see.

So I got a job as a pesticide sprayer. I was really careless and got poisoned by pesticides. And then went to the doctor, said, what do you have for pesticide poison? And she said nothing. And then I realized, I mean, I sort of knew it, but I realized my health really is my responsibility. And then I started looking at, I hadn't studied nutrition and health. I'd studied biology. That's pretty close. But then I got into focused on nutrition. And I basically was looking for the idea is that your body turns over every year. Like 98% of your body is removed and replaced every year. All the atoms, you know, removed and replaced. So if something goes wrong in the body, then what you need to do is raise your standard because in one year you can have rebuilt 98% of your body to a higher standard. That's called healing. That's why healing is possible because it's always turning over. So you can improve on it if you make the right choices. So, so I was looking at, okay, well, what's all the important stuff? And so I was got into essential nutrients. I wasn't thinking about water and air, but that's important too. But I was just thinking, body's made out of food. So what's important in food? And I got into essential nutrients. And essential nutrients, by definition, are nutrients that you have to have to live and be healthy. You can't make them from anything else in the body. So they have to be brought in from outside. That's one. Number two, if you don't get enough, your health deteriorates. You get deficiency symptoms. They get worse with time. If you don't get enough long enough, you die. That's 2. Number 3 is, if before you die you bring enough of the essential nutrient that's too low back into the diet, then all the problems that come from not getting enough are reversed and your health comes back. Because life knows how to make a body work, provided we make sure we bring in the building blocks. And we make that choice in our mouth, right? What we stick in our mouth, that's where we make the choice. After that, life takes over and does everything that it knows how to do, and we don't have any further say about it. So if you eat garbage, then life will make you a garbage body. And if you eat really well, in line with nature and your nature, then life will make you a body that's in line with nature and your nature, and that would be called health.

I couldn't agree more.

And then the fourth part of it was you cannot call a nutrient essential until researchers have identified at least one vital biochemical reaction in the body that requires that nutrient and without which that vital biochemical reaction cannot take place. So that's the definition of an essential nutrient. And there are 18 minerals, maybe 19, lithium, they're arguing about, 13 vitamins, 9 essential amino acids from proteins, and 2 essential fatty acids from oils that fit that definition. And I was going through that, trying to figure all that out. And I got stuck on oils because they were so contradictory. The information was so confusing. And I had a real problem and I needed honest answers. So what really the point, there was a point when I got focused on oils and it goes like this. I read the story, omega-6 is an essential nutrient. By the definition I just gave you, right? Gotta have it, can't make it. If you don't get enough long enough, you die. If you bring back enough before you die, all the problems are reversed. And there are very specific reactions in which it's required. So omega-6 fits that definition. Contrary to what a lot of people say, don't use omega-6s. That's really bad advice. Because if you don't use, if you don't get any omega-6s long enough, you die. So this is really bad advice people are putting out.

What is omega-6 really present in?

Well, in all the seed oils. You know, there are a lot of people for saying now don't use seed oils, don't use omega-6s. No, no, no, no, no, no. Completely stupid. That's really bad advice.

And yeah, even, even around Los Angeles, there's restaurants now, like they put in, in the window, no seed oils because there's this.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because, and all the people, all the people who say that, not one of those people. And there's been books off over the last 45 years. There's always some people bashing seed oils and bashing omega-6s. Not one of the authors of any of those books has ever talked to me. And I fixed the problem because what happened was I saw this study and then the very next study I said omega-6 gives you cancer and kills you. And I'm going, ha, how can that, you know, you mean I have to take it so it can kill me? There's something wrong with this picture. I must be missing something. And what I found out and what all of these people who diss the seed oils, They didn't do their homework. They didn't talk to me, and they didn't do their homework because they didn't look deep enough. They blamed the oil and the omegas for what should be blamed on the damage done to them by the industry when they make them. And by the way, we use them in our foods when we fry them. So I figured that out 40 years ago, and so I developed a method for making oils with health in mind. They're the most sensitive of our essential nutrients. They need the most care. They're damaged by light, by oxygen, and by heat, and they need to be protected from those when they're being made, when they're being stored, and when they're being used. And so we fixed that. So we made a very tight system where no light, oxygen, heat damage the oil while it's being made. So the industry doesn't do that. And the industry, when they make an oil like that, it's about 0.5 to 1% damaged. Probably more because there's some, some damage, some kinds of damage they don't even measure. And so they get, and so I, I wanted to talk to them and because I was sick and I needed some honest answers. So I called the Oil Chemists Society, American Oil Chemists Society. I said, I want to talk to a researcher, put him on the line. And I said to him, so when you know, because I got this out of their journal, it was the American Oil Chemists Society journal. Research journal, right? Says 0.5 to 1% of the oil molecules are damaged when they're treated with sodium hydroxide, then with phosphoric acid, very strong base and acid. Then they're bleached to take out the color molecules. Then they go rancid, and then they're heated to frying temperature for about 30 minutes in deodorization to get rid of the damaged molecules. So I called the guy and I said to him, so when you know this does damage to the oil, why do you do that? And he said, well, one of the reasons we do that is because we can get rid of half of the pesticides in the oil. And I've been poisoned by pesticides. In my head, I go, oh, the other half stays in, right? Right. And at that point, you know, I had gone to university. I had taken the Lipitz course, you know, so we talked about all of this stuff. Nobody ever said anything about pesticides in oils. So when he said that, I, at that time, I didn't even know there were pesticides in oils. And then I saw, I went in my head, I was like, but I didn't say that to him. I said to him, why don't you start with organically grown seeds? Because then you don't have a pesticide poison problem to deal with.

Yeah.

And there was this long silence at the other end of the phone. And I'm a good talker. You can tell, obviously by now, right? But I can also listen. And I waited. I asked a question. I waited. And there was a long silence. And then when he came back, he was really angry. He said, what the hell is your problem? If you got 99% on an exam, you'd be damn happy. And this oil is only 1% damaged. It's 99% good.

So now I'm saying, so what exactly does it mean for the oil to be damaged? And when we ingest damaged oil, what does that do to us?

Well, I say, I get there, I'll get there in a second, right? So then I decided to do the math. So I thought, well, okay, it's only 1%. Maybe I'm overreacting. It is 99% good, 1% damaged. So I said, okay, when in doubt, do the math. So I said, okay, if I have a tablespoon of an oil that is 1% damaged, how many damaged molecules am I going to introduce to my body in that tablespoon? And I ask people that question and their guesses are always at least a billion times too low. So give me a number. Now I've set you up, so you're going to give me a lot. I want to set me up, so I'm going to say a billion already. Yeah, yeah. So you're billion?

Yeah.

Okay, so a billion has 9 zeros, right? Yes. Thousand, million, billion. Your number is 10 zeros too short.

Oh my goodness.

It's 60 quintillion damaged molecules.

That's a lot.

That's more than a million damaged molecules for every one of your body's 60 trillion cells in one tablespoon. And people use 2 to 4, and there's pesticides in the oil, and the oil is in plastic, so the plastic leaches into the oil quicker than into water. And then we use it for frying, drying, so you have to multiply that number by another 5 times. So massive amounts of damaged molecules. Now, what does that mean? Life was invented— sorry, health was invented by life and is the result of living in line with nature and our nature.

I like that.

So when you look at creatures in nature that eat, every creature eats all its foods fresh, whole, raw, organic, local, mostly in season, and for human beings, probably mostly plant-based, because when we only had rocks to hunt with, we came home without meat most of the time. And when you don't have meat, you chase down some vegetables. They don't fight back. They don't run away. They're very easy to hunt down and kill. So that's, that's where health comes from. It's an adaptation for living in a natural environment. And when you, and when you damage the oils. You're creating molecules that never existed in nature, so they have the wrong shape. They go into your body, and wherever they occupy space, they block what's supposed to happen in that space. So they interfere with natural reactions, health reactions. And frankly, most of our degenerative conditions are the result of living out of line with nature. And processing is the single thing. Processed sugars, processed flour, processed oils, processed fats. And basically what we're doing is processing damages natural molecules, changes from natural and good for you to toxic and bad for you.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. And that's a big problem today all over the world.

Yeah. And there are only 3 physical reasons why people get sick. You're not getting enough of what you need, which is the essential nutrients, or you're getting too much of what shouldn't be there, which is all the toxic stuff. And that's the processing damaged molecules. But all the synthetics, all the drugs, pharmaceutical drugs, they all have side effects. Side effects are toxic effects because these are molecules that don't belong in the body. And nature prevented inflammation, which is kind of the common denominator. For most of our degenerative diseases. Nature prevented those by creating whole foods, and they have antioxidants and anti-inflammatory molecules in them. When we process sugar, for instance, the antioxidants and anti-inflammatories from cane or beet are removed. Then you get, then you don't get spark control, and then you get inflammation. That's pretty much true. And the biggest, the foods that are the best at antioxidant, anti-inflammatory are the spices. Turmeric, black seed, black seed from, from Middle East, clove, amla, which is Indian gooseberry, curry, cayenne, ginger, garlic, onions, mustard. So there's quite a few very powerful spices that, that, that are antiviral, antifungal, antibacterial, anti-cholesterol, anti-cardio, anti-diabetes, anti-cancer. Anti-autoimmune, and did I say antioxidant and anti-inflammatory? All in one spice.

Nice. Yeah.

And so I use spices very liberally and I'm, I'm, I'll be 84 next week and I actually, I'll be 84 this week.

Well, happy birthday.

Yeah. Yeah. And, and, and I have, I have no aches, no pains, no inflammation. I don't have, you know, you know how people get these crooked joints in their fingers sometimes? I don't have any of that. I don't have any aches or pains anywhere except when I bang into something, which I still do. Right. But, but no, you know, and it's, and I guess I'm exhibit A for saying, you know what, when people say, oh, that comes with age. No, it doesn't. It comes with mismanagement. It comes with not doing the right thing for how your body was designed to work and what it needs to work.

There's just So many things that you brought in our conversation and, you know, the food supply in our country, it's a big problem how we're getting the food out on people's tables and, you know, getting damaged food, getting, getting rancid oils. So how does one know like that the bottle they're buying is a good product?

Well, if you're buying something in a bottle and you can't find a tree where that bottle hangs from the tree, then you know it, then you know it's processed. Right?

Yeah. So true. Yeah.

And then when you put it in bottles, if it's in a plastic bottle or it's in a glass bottle, glass is pretty good for packaging. Plastic, no. Yeah. Because especially for liquids and especially for oils, oils swell plastic and then plastic leaches into oils quicker than into water. You know, if it's burnt or if you had to salt it and roast it, they do that to to hide rancid tastes on seeds and nuts. So get your stuff fresh, raw, organic. Get it, get it, get it the way nature made it. You know, instead of walnut pieces, buy the damn walnuts and crack them yourself because then you get it because they're well protected inside the seeds because they have to be, you know, they have to be alive for a whole season so that they can then drop on the ground, fall in the ground, then split out of the nut and seed and grow roots and grow. Eat things, eat things the way nature made them. Fresh, whole, raw, organic.

Now, how does the balance of essential fatty acids in our diet impact the body's inflammatory response?

Okay. So when, when, when it comes to oils, there are only two things of all the whole universe of fats and oils. There are only two things you need, omega-6 and omega-3. Linoleic acid is the omega-6, alpha-linolenic acid is the omega-3. They are the essential fatty acids by the definition I gave. You need them both and you need them in the right ratio because they go through the same system in your cells to be turned into a whole bunch of derivatives that have hormone-like regulating substances in every cell in the body lifelong. Super important. But they both have functions. And what we've done is we have increased our omega-6 intake. Twice, maybe 4 times, maybe 10 times. And we've lowered our omega-3 intake to 1/6 of what people got in 1850. So we've changed the ratio. And what happens, because they use the same system, when you get too much of one, it crowds out the other. And when you get too much of the other, it crowds out the one. So the ratio between the two has to be right. What most people get way too much omega-6 and way too little omega-3. 99% of the population does not get enough omega-3. For optimum health. And the research says that when you increase omega-3s in the diet, provided they're not damaged and not toxic, if you increase your omega-3s in the diet, you can improve virtually every major degenerative condition of our time. And what that means is to the extent that these improve, to that extent they were caused by omega-3 deficiency. Because omega-3 can only fix what lack of omega-3 causes. There's no crossover. If magnesium caused your problem, omega-3 won't fix it. Then you have to take magnesium. So very specific. It's very specific. 99% not getting enough, and virtually every major degenerative disease has omega deficiency as part of its cause.

And then what are some of your favorite ways to take in omega-3?

Yeah. So, so let me, let me, let me finish the answer to the previous question. So we get the omega-6s. We got way lots and we don't get enough omega-3s. So that's one problem. We don't get enough omega-3s in terms of the amount. That's the second problem. And the third problem is we get our oils damaged by the processing and by food preparation. Those are the three areas that need to be fixed. And omega-3 and 6 have some competing functions. So omega, one of them has antioxidant, one of these, it's called series One, eicosanoids, these are the hormone-like regulating substances. One of them has anti-inflammatory effects and another one, series 2, has inflammatory effects. And it's important in healing. And omega-3 runs shotgun on the whole system because it only makes anti-inflammatory eicosanoids. Okay. So, so we've lost a shotgun on the system by lowering our omega-3s too much. And the second reason you can get omega, you can get inflammation from omega-6 is from the damaged molecules in it. When you have put damaged molecules into the body, molecules that never existed in nature, then your immune system creates inflammation to try to isolate these molecules and then try to figure out ways to take them down. Well, if it can't figure out how to take them down because they never existed in nature, So it doesn't have arrows for those. Then you get chronic inflammation from damaged omega-6. So there's a good kind of inflammation and a bad kind of inflammation that comes from omega-6. The good kind is for healing and the bad kind is from damaged molecules.

Very interesting. Because we have issues obviously in dentistry like chronic gingivitis, periodontitis, you know, and we need the right ratio of essential fatty acids. What we do see, we actually have studies to show that periodontal disease gets better with intake of omega-3 fatty acids. Fatty acids.

Yeah. If they're not damaged.

Yeah. If they're not damaged. That's true.

Yeah. If they're not damaged. Yeah.

Yeah.

So, and we, and we found that out too. We worked with, with dentists in Norway and that's what they told us. We give them Urozol. We developed a blend that does the ratio right. That isn't, that aren't damaged. Both of them are not damaged. The ratio is twice as much omega-3s, omega-6s, because most people are getting too much omega-6s and we want people off the omega-6s that are damaged. So we put undamaged omega-6s in it. And so the dentist in Norway gave them the oil blend and it improved their gingivitis. I have a, I have something else I do for gingivitis that, but that's not oil, but I'll, I'll tell, I'll let you know in a minute.

Definitely. Definitely. Okay. So, um, the other question I asked you was how do you advise people to take omega-3s?

Oh yeah. Okay. So the richest source of omega-3. Plant-based is flaxseed. And flaxseed has lots of other things in it. But when you take flaxseed, you have to blend it or you have to break it up somehow because the COVID on it is very tough. Because the flaxseed wants to make another flax plant. It doesn't want to feed you necessarily, right? You have to break it up. Otherwise, if you can eat the flaxseed whole, you get some benefit with bowel regularity. But literally those seeds will come out the other end. You can plant them and they will still grow and you won't get any of the nutrients from it. So you have to break them up. So it's best in a smoothie or a shake, or you grind it up and put it on your oatmeal or whatever it is you do. So that's the richest source of omega-3. Omega-6, all seeds and nuts contain them. Then you have to figure out how do you get the ratio right? 5 tablespoons of flax with 3 tablespoons of sesame and or sunflower will get you about the ratio that we work with.

With.

And then the other way to do it is you get, you get, you get the stuff that we did the homework on because if you try to figure out the seeds and nuts, they all have different amounts of oils and they all have different fatty acid profiles and it gets kind of complicated if you don't know what you're doing. So we basically did that work and we created a blend that, that, that has the right ratio, that has the best ratio. And it's in glass. And it's refrigerated in the factory and it's protected from light, from light, oxygen, heat. It's in glass. It's a, there's a box around it to keep the light out completely. And you find it in the refrigerator in the stores and you refrigerate it at home and you add it to food after it comes off the heat source. You never, ever, ever, ever want to use a really good oil for frying because frying does more damage to the liquid oils than it does to the hard fats. And, you know, of course, now people are going to eat more tallow and lard and stuff like that, coconut fat. Problem is those oils don't get you the essential fatty acids you need. So it's like they say, okay, oils are bad, so let's do this. Well, the reason we got into oils because this was not enough. So, you know, we're talking about history. It's like 150 years of history. They go back and forth and trends, and half the time what people are telling you when they're pushing the trends is BS. There's some very high-profile people who are saying seed oils are bad and omega-6s are bad, and they're completely wrong. They're blaming the seeds and the oils when they should be blaming the damage. And we fixed that problem 40 years ago.

Yeah, I didn't realize that we have to keep oils in a dark bottle. How sensitive are they?

Well, it's because if you put them in a transparent bottle, light goes in and light creates free radicals. And free radicals have chain reactions because electrons like to be paired. So if you kick an electron out of orbit and now it's single, it'll steal an electron out of a pair. So you get these chain reactions, 30,000 reactions before they all settle down again for every photon. The oils are all in Transparent bottles on the shelf in the light, ton of light doing damage to them. Oxygen creates rancidity and high temperature creates, twists the molecules and turns into trans fatty acids. Hmm.

Interesting.

So best thing is, best thing is keep them in the, keep them in the, in the dark glass bottle. Once you open it, keep it in the fridge and use it up within 8 weeks. That's what we recommend.

Okay.

Fish oils are 5 times more sensitive than the seed oils, and they're always rancid. That's why you get those disgusting burps. And that's also if you get it in a bottle, if you open the bottle, you take out a little bit and you put it in the fridge, in days you can smell the rancidity. That's how sensitive they are. They're like fish oils are 156 times more sensitive than saturated fats to damage done by light, oxygen, and heat. Wow.

Because I know a lot of the Fish oil capsules even are not refrigerated.

Well, the, the refrigeration is more about oxygen. When you put, you put the oil in a capsule, you're kind of keeping the oxygen out. But the problem with the fish oils is actually twofold. If you know, there was a time when I was a kid where eating fish was a really good idea. We ate salmon and because it has omega-3s, EPA and DHA. But that changed. And there were studies that showed that fish oils are good for you. But that changed about 20, maybe 25 years ago, because they found out, you know, that our oceans are our sewers. Everything we dump on land goes downhill, ends up in the ocean. And if it's fat soluble, it ends up in the fat in creatures, and then it concentrates up the food chain. So the algae have the least, and then it goes to krill, and then it goes to little fish, and then it goes to big fish, and it concentrates. Each time from one creature to another one. And so the fish are now very toxic and the fish oils used to have 1,300 parts per billion of PCBs, dioxins, and pesticides in them. Wow. And they're super toxic. They're associated with cancer, birth defects, and something else. Cancer, birth defects, and anyway, really bad stuff. And there is no safe levels. So the government said, you know what, you need to bring it down from 1,300 parts per billion down to 90. But to do that, you have to do more processing. So that means the fish oils got more and more processing damage in exchange for having less of these toxic substances. And the processing damage— now when you look at the fish oils, all the things they make claims for that were true 20, 30 years ago, are not true anymore. The fish oils do not help your brain. And in fact, I talked to somebody yesterday who said, by the way, I just saw a study. He read me the study that fish oils actually increase Alzheimer's rather than decreasing it in that study. Wow. So, yeah. If you're going to use a supplement, then I would say do krill oil because krill oil isn't damaged. The fish oil is damaged. They make it out of rotten heads and rotten guts, and then they keep them in a big tank and they're fermenting and rotting away. And then they take this gunk and then they do a chemical feast on and pull out some EPA and DHA and then they sell that and make money on it. And I would not touch the fish oils with a 10-foot pole. And the industry has always been lying about it, saying your body cannot convert plant omega-3s into fish omega-3s. It's actually not true. It's the same system that converts omega-6, converts omega-3. Problem is we're not getting enough omega-3, and the plant-based is 5 times more stable than the fish oil omega-3.

Interesting. Very interesting. Now, what are your 3 non-negotiable rules for getting essential fatty acids right to ensure we're supporting our health in every way?

Okay. There is good research that shows that eating seeds and nuts is associated with longevity. So eat seeds and nuts. Flax for omega-3, anything else for omega-6s, because everything else has omega-6s in. Flax has a lot of omega-3. So flax and something. Eat this and eat them fresh, whole, raw, organic. Okay, so that would be one, number one. Number two, the way we measure optimal intake is how skin feels. When you get both in the right ratio, they form a barrier in the skin against the loss of moisture, and you end up with soft, smooth, velvety skin. If your skin is dry, you need more oil. If eating seeds and nuts doesn't get you soft, smooth, velvety skin, and I can't do it that way, but some people might be able to, so try it, right? If you don't, if you still need more, then use the oil blend. And in winter, you need more than in summer, because in winter you burn more of it for energy, for warmth. So I use maybe 3, 4 tablespoons in winter and 2 or 3 in summer. And I measure it by skin fit. And your energy level, when you get them right, your energy levels will be really nice, way better energy. Omega-3s actually increase metabolic rate, increase energy levels, and increase performance if you do your sport to performance. We measured in Norway, in, wait a minute, was it? Yeah, in Norway. We did a study in a gym and it showed that when athletes did their sport to exhaustion and they took a tablespoon per 50 pounds of body weight per day of the oil blend, their performance to exhaustion increased by 40 to 60% in 30 days.

Wow.

Yeah, major.

Impressive.

Omega-3s are unbelievable. And we had tons of different teams taking them. But they never talk about it because we thought they would advertise our stuff because they got such good results with it. But actually when they get an edge, they keep it to themselves because it's so competitive.

Oh my God.

I know. I was shocked. I was shocked. Oh my God.

But I'm glad you're here to talk about it. That's important.

Yeah. So, uh, so, okay. So, so eat seeds and nuts, then take, take the oil blend if to get your to get your skin soft and velvety. And it's ballpark a tablespoon per 50 pounds of body weight per day. Mix in food, spread out over the course of the day, more in winter than in summer. And that's two. And what's the third one? Honestly, I'm going to jump ship on the third one. Here's what I'm going to tell you. Of all the things to do in your life, the number one, more important, most important is to find your way to the peace, to the contentment, to the calmness, to the sacred within you that is your universal essence. Because one day your body, no matter how good you treat it, will crash. The body is a terminal condition, but the peace will not crash because you are that universal essence in your deepest nature. And then the second one on top of that is you are unconditional empowering love as life energy, which is a fraction of solar energy. Which flows through you and is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient in your body. Those two, so I cheated, so I jumped ship and now I gave you four.

I love it. Yeah, it's so important.

And those two, when you take time every day to be with yourself, to tune into what's within you that is unbelievably awesome, the quality of your life will become unbelievably good. And when your quality of life is good and you like being around, then making the changes you may need to make to take care of your body become pretty easy.

Yeah, I agree with you on that. Finding peace is so important, especially in the world we live in today.

Yeah, and the only reason we don't have peace in that world is everybody's looking out there for what can only be found in here.

So true.

And then somebody bumps into you and then you got to bump into them twice as hard and then they bump into you 4 times as hard. And then you have a war. You know, it's like, what the hell? You know, you'd think after the second war, we would have said, sat down and said, damn it, we gotta have peace. Because it was such a mess. And did they do that? Nobody did that. Nobody. Nobody in politics knows anything about peace. So then they redefine peace not as an experience. They define peace as the absence of war. When the shooting stops is peace. No, that's not peace. That's a ceasefire. The hate's still the same. That's not peace. So we live in a time when we really need to take that seriously.

Yeah, that's great advice. Just look within, you know, find peace there and the universe around us will change.

Yeah, because everything you're looking for on the outside, you already got on the inside. And on the inside is way better than you're ever going to find it on the outside.

It's so true. Now, you're giving us 2 free chapters.

I am.

From your new book. Yes, Your Body Needs an Oil Change.

Oh my God. I don't set that up. I didn't know that.

That's okay. I think it's a great—

But that's what the book looks like.

Yeah, I love it. That is such a great title.

Your Body Needs an Oil Change.

Yes, it really does.

And this is what the other one looks like. That's my show. Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill. That's my show. Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill is sort of the Bible on oils.

What kind of information are people going to find in Your Body Needs an Oil Change?

Well, The Body Needs an Oil Change because I'm changing because oils is what I've been doing for 45 years. Then I got into digestion. And by the way, talking about gingivitis and mouth, one of the other things that I wanted to drop on you is I brush my teeth with probiotics every night before I go to bed.

So do I. I'm amazed.

That's great.

Really?

Yes. And what you find when you do that, you wake up with exponentially less severe bad breath in the morning. 'Cause breath is bad in the morning because when you, when you sleep, you don't swallow. So if you have rot bacteria in your mouth when you go to bed, yeah, then you, you know, we, we used to say, oh yeah, then you wake up in the morning and you think you're a shit salesman with a mouthful of samples.

Yes. The way we look at oral health changed. We need to take care of the good bacteria and it'll take care of us.

100%. So, so the oil is good for that. Probiotics are good for that.

Amazing.

When I get colds, I, I break up digestive enzymes in my mouth because they take the protein coat off viruses and put them out of commission. So for all the respiratory viruses, digestive enzymes rich in protease are really good. You just open them in your mouth, swish them around in your mouth because they'll put the viruses out of commission before they even get into your cells. Amazing. So that's, yeah. So, so Anyway, so I started working with digestion, then I started working with greens, then I started looking at what else affects health. And the answer came, everything affects health. And so I started working on human nature and total health based in nature and human nature. That's what I'm working on now. And Your Body Needs an Oil Change is an update on the oils, but it also starts to get into that direction. Because we have lived here for 200,000 years. We have the two things that are most important in our lives. It's like, what is this? Who am I? How does this work? What's it good for? Why am I here? Where did I come from? Where do I go when I die? You know, all the existential questions, right? That nobody really has a good handle on, that we just get a lot of BS from. People who—

I love it.

Yeah. So that And the same thing with health. Every day you got something going on with your health, right? So what is health? Health based in nature and human nature, and to turn those two into teachable fields. So the beginnings of that are in your body needs an oil change, because you can't just oil, you know, it's like you can't just say, okay, well, I'm not going to do it. You know, I've got cancer or I've got osteoarthritis or I've got, I don't know, you know, I've got my teeth are rotting or what, You say, well, all I'm going to do is take omega-3s. No, no, no, no, it doesn't work like that. You have to give everything its due.

And so well said, Udo, well said.

Yeah. And then how do you do that? You got to know who you are and you got to know what total health is and give, you know, there are 10 parts to total health and each part has a different nature, a different function, needs a different kind of attention on a regular basis, goes off in a different way and responds to a different kind of intervention. So literally, when you're living your life, you need to take some time with yourself. You need to drink your water. You need to go pee. You need to sleep. You know, all the things we know. You need to do all of them, not just one thing. You can't do it with prayer, and you can't do it with vitamin C just all by itself, and you can't do it with omega-3s all by themselves. Right?

Very good advice.

And so then you develop a lifestyle where everything gets its due. And if you give everything its due, you'll have an amazing life no matter how long or how short it might be.

So with those words of wisdom, Udo, I want to thank you for really enlightening us, not just on omega-3s, but really a holistic way of looking at life, which we need to stop and really understand. I agree with you 100%.

Yeah, that is, that is what holistic health is about, right? Is giving everything its due.

Absolutely. Yeah. So thank you so much for being on my show today, The Holistic Dentistry Show. I'm looking forward to reading your next book because it sounds like there's going to be another one.

Yeah, there's going to— it's going to be a fat one. I've got 10,000 pages of notes.

Oh, that's amazing. That's amazing.

Yeah.

And everyone, thank you so much for joining us on today's show. If you enjoyed the show, please share it with one of your family or in your community, one of your friends, and go ahead and message us on my YouTube channel if there's any other topics you'd like to see. And in the show notes below, we will post the links for Udo's book and how to get the free gift. Until next time.

And maybe, maybe you need to bring me back to talk about total health and human nature.

I would love to have you back to talk about that. Yes, yes, absolutely. Everyone, until next time, stay healthy.

Yes, I will.

Thank you so much for joining me this week. Please make sure you check out the show notes. For any links mentioned in the show. If you like today's show, please invite your friends to listen as well. That would mean a lot to me. Do you have a question you'd like me to answer? Message me on Instagram @DrSandaMoldovan. This is Dr. Sanda Moldovan, and remember, your mouth is the gateway to your health, so take care of it in the most natural and best way possible.