Dr. Tabatha Barber explains why free-range eggs cost more: conventional caged eggs have an omega-6 to omega-3 ratio around 50:1, while free-range eggs are closer to 1:1. Since omega-6 promotes inflammation and omega-3 doesn't, the ratio matters for chronic health.
You go to whole foods, you go to grocery store and you're like, why are these $11 for my eggs? What's going on? I'm going to tell you why it is important to consider to keep doing the free range eggs. Remember that ratio of one to one. You want to have a ratio of one to one for omega sixes and three is an ideal world. And you can go with Omega 3 is you can go a lot higher than that because omega threes do not turn into inflammation like omega 6s do. If you were to say I'm not going to do those organic, you know, whatever, like those, those chickens are probably fine. I'm going to go here and I'm going to just get this store bought usda, you know, caged eggs. You are looking at an omega ratio of approximately. And again every brand is going to be different, approximately 50 to 1. That means you're basically consuming inflammation. If you have, you maybe get from your local farm or from, you know, you get the actual free range of an egg dealer. Get your seven egg dealer. Now we're talking, guess what that ratio is. It's one to one. So there is a reason why your coaches are asking you to and your doctor are asking you to consume these things. It's not because they sound cool. It's because there's actual data. We want you to heal. Your body is going to have a hard time healing if you're eating eggs every day that have high omega 6 ratio. It's just going to have a hard time.
