Well, good morning everybody and welcome to this morning’s call. Uh my name is Schneed Pollock. I am the general manager of Manatech Australasia, a role I’m very very proud to hold. And this morning is our regular monthly call with our most favorite speaker ever. And I can say that out loud because everybody knows it’s true. Um, Dr. Nent is Manatech’s chief science and health officer and the chairman of the scientific advisory board. He has more than 40 years of experience in the area of integrative medicine. He has tested more than 6,000 dietary supplements and products and formulated more than 100. He is internationally recognized as an expert in his field and been teaching doctors for more than 30 years. I just mentioned he’s our our favorite speaker. He’s also our most requested speaker worldwide. Now, Dr. Nent has earned multiple degrees, graduating with top honors at both the undergrad and graduate levels. His areas of study include integrative medicine, health and wellness psychology, leadership psychology, organizational psychology, neurossychology, biological anthropology, nutrition science, and business administration. Dr. Dr. Nent has served as president of the International Association of Complimentary Medicine and is president emeritus of the American Nathopathic Medical Association. He’s also a professional member of the American College of Nutrition. He was awarded the servit heart award by Manatech Associates in 2007 and I believe that was the first year that award was introduced. And Dr. agent was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, served his country with honor as a US Marine and has been a resident of Texas for nearly two decades. Um, but recently moved to Florida. Um, big move. So, Dr. Nent, good morning. Welcome. We are super excited to hear from you this morning and we’re very excited about the topic which is our omega-3 with vitamin D3. How are you doing? I’m doing well and man, I am I’m always so happy to be doing these calls because I know that I’m connecting with all of my friends in Australasia and that it’s great. So, I’m glad to be here and I’m glad to be talking about Omega3 with D3 this morning. Fantastic. So, we will we just I love this. I can just hand this show over and I get to sit back and listen just like everybody else. So, Dr. Nent, I’m sure you’ll share your slides. So, let’s take it away. I’m going to do that. We’ll do the share thing right now. Hopefully this works. There we go. Can you see my slide, Chenade? Uh, yes we can. All right, then we are ready to roll. Folks, let me tell you what, some of you have seen me present on Omega3 a few times, maybe many times, but you have not seen this presentation. Now, a little bit of it’s going to be stuff you’ve seen before, but I have a lot of new information in here that you’ve not seen before. And remember, the purpose of these calls, these health and wellness calls, is to ensure that we are giving you proper education on our products. This is an educational call, not a sales call. And so, for that reason, I’m going to be giving you a lot more information than we might do in normal marketing. For most of you, that makes you pretty happy. That’s why you’re tuned into these kinds of things. Well, we’ve got a lot to look at this morning. Well, you know, that’s your product, Omega-3 with D3 in Australasia. And in the next hour, you’re going to find out just how fantastic this product is. And you’re going to know new things about omega-3 and vitamin D3 that you didn’t know before. So, let’s start with science and benefits. Usually, I put the benefits at the end of the presentation. We’re doing this the other way around. This morning, we’re going to start with benefits and then we’re going to tell you why those benefits are there. And I’m going to give you some science from the latest scientific studies on omega-3 andor D3. Well, everyone knows that omega-3 is quote an essential fatty acid. Not everybody knows what that means. And for those of you who don’t know, these are the basics that you’re looking at at the screen right now. Brain health, anti-inflammatory. And by the way, I have to say this. If you are doing business in the US, you can’t use the word inflammatory or any version or derivation of that word. Every other country in the manatech world, but not the US. Okay, just to make that clear for everybody. So, uh we’re not talking to a US audience this morning. So, anti-inflammatory. God, it felt good to say that. Okay. Uh eye health. Most people don’t know this, but the highest concentration of DHA in a healthy human being should be in the retina of your eye. We’ll do more on that in a few moments. Maintenance of your blood lipids or blood fats, which includes triglyceride and cholesterol, and a whole lot more that you’re going to learn about in this next hour. Well, I’ve said many times in my presentation, so this is just worth quoting again, that there are hundreds of studies on the safety and on the efficacy of fish oils for memory improvement that many people are aware of for inflammation that most people are not aware of. For heart, most people think about omega-3 and heart health, but circulation goes right in with that. and of course immune support. Now EPA and DHA, a lot of people get confused with that and you know why do you need both and so on so forth. All right, I’m going to make this very very simple for you and that’s that’s I hope what I do best for our associates is take really complex topics and make it really simple because the average person doesn’t want to go earn a doctorate degree before they can start talking to people about our products. So EPA, think about EPA as supporting functions in the body and think about DHA as supporting structures in the body. Now I know you’ve never heard it said that way, but so as an example, fighting inflammation in the body, that’s a function. That’s a functional thing. Okay? Anti-thrombotic. Uh, so we’re talking about it can thin your blood a little bit and I’ll later on in this presentation I’ll talk to you a little bit about that in more detail. Nobody panic, nobody worried. There’s no reason to worry. I just but I will explain that to you when we get there. DHA supports the function or I should say the structures like your brain, your retina, cell membranes. They need DHA. And there’s much more. There’s much more. But so basically EPA is for function. DHA is for structure. That’s the best way to look at it. I’ll talk to you about ratios as well because the ratio does matter. Every living creature needs to have some amount of these two fatty acids, but every creature is different in terms of what is the proper ratio of EPA to DHA. So, we’ll get to that. Let’s do a few things that you probably didn’t know. Now, this is from a study on cytoines and inflammation and immune function. And what they found in the study is that you could reduce inflammation faster with omega-3s. You can speed up muscle recovery after workouts and and stress to the muscles faster. With omega-3, you can reduce soreness. And of course, you’ve heard me talk about this before, delayed onset muscle soreness or DOMS as it’s abbreviated. Omega-3 helps with that as well. You’re not going to see that out of US material because of our problem with sane inflammation in the United States. Okay? But this is an educational call for Australasia. So, I’m telling you the way it is and you should feel good about that that you’re getting the real deal here. All right. What about joint health? Well, you may not know this, but omega-3 helps to improve the quality of your synovial fluid. Okay, what’s synovial fluid? Someone says synovial fluid is the the lubricant in your joints. If you want your joints to move smoothly and uh and in a healthy way and feel good as we’re doing it, the lubricant in there is the synovial fluid. And of course, by doing this, it can help you with joint pain and the risk of arthritis. If you’re if you don’t have a proper balance of synovial fluid or the synenovial fluid is not good quality, you can have a lot of friction on the bones which leads to arthritis. It can support the manufacturer of cartilage as well. So these are all important areas for omega-3 under the heading of joint health and recovery from injury. So you’ve never heard me talk about that before. What about enhanced muscle protein synthesis and strength of the muscle as well? We know that muscle growth pathways are activated in part by omega-3. That omega-3 supports lean muscle retention. This is very important, by the way, if you’re on a diet because when you go on a diet, I don’t care what diet you go on, you’re going to be losing some muscle mass. There’s no way around that. You’re just going because your body when you get a reduction of calories or a reduction of any nutrient group, it’s going to start to eat your muscles before it eats your fat. Unfortunately, that’s the way it works because muscles are more nutritious and your body wants to spend less energy to get more energy if you understand what I’m saying. Okay? And of course, it enhances recovery from injury as I’ve mentioned before, but this is from a different study that confirms the same thing. Cardiovascular uh benefits of course have been talked about pretty much all over the world and most of the time when you talk about omega-3 most people their quick reaction is oh heart health and yes certainly omega-3s are important for heart health but did you know that there’s a study which you see on the screen right now that talks about improving the delivery of oxygen to your muscles and your heart of course is a muscle and lowers your resting heart rate and increases what’s known as V2 max. V2 max for for the athletes out there, they want to always increase their V2 max because that’s the way they’re using oxygen when they are stressing their muscles. Okay? And so this is from yet a different study that you’ve not heard me talk about yet. And of course we have talked about uh cognitive and mental performance with omega-3s. So many studies in that area for brain health and neurotransmitters. This particular study that you see on the screen also uh did a significant focus on the decision makingaking process. So being sharp when you want to make that decision as well as reducing mental fatigue. So uh that’s that was a pretty good study as well. Uh what about fat metabolism? Well, every once in a while I talk about this with our groups around the world, but it really should be talked about more. When you’re talking about burning fat, human beings don’t actually burn fat. I mean, everyone likes to say that around the world. Think about how uncomfortable that would be if someone lit fire to the fat on your body. I mean, so you’re not you’re not burning fat. What you’re doing is you are oxidizing the fat. You are converting the fat through an oxygen pathway if your body’s operating correctly. And that gives you energy as it converts the fat. The only purpose for fat on your body is stored energy and you want to convert it correctly and omega-3 helps you in that process. Very important for everyone but obviously very important for athletes as well. And so it can help to support weight management or fat loss is what I would prefer to say but some some countries make us say white weight management as a rule. Uh, I always say fat loss because that should be your goal. Okay. Well, our supplier has given us the exclusive on their omega-3. They sell us their very top omega-3. And the company that we buy from, they process omega-3s for lots and lots of companies. and you I don’t know if you use the term big box store uh there in Australasia but uh so uh stores like uh well I’m not supposed to mention store names but big box stores and if that doesn’t translate then someone there that is more familiar with uh American lingo can translate that but maybe you already say that so you can buy very very cheap omega-3 I mean just dirt cheap and it’s junk. And they will make junk if they have a customer that wants to buy it. And they have different grades. We buy the very top grade, the most expensive oil that they produce, their purest oil, an oil so pure that it surpasses all established standards. And their oil has more than 100 clinical studies. It is the best studied omega-3 on the market. We know it’s safe. We know it’s effective. And uh and that makes me feel really, really good about the product and recommending it. Now, I’ve given you some educational points, but I want to remind everyone that when you’re doing anything that’s related to presenting our product to a new person where whatever market you’re in, you have to follow the TGA rules. And uh so TGA makes the rules for uh Australia, New Zealand, and for Singapore. Those have to be followed in all three countries. And these are the statements that are uh allowed by the TGA when you’re making direct claims. And you can see they’re they’re pretty much the same direction as I’ve been going on, but not nearly as detailed. So, uh just wanted you to make note of that so that you know. Okay. What about diet? I always have somebody and you’ll have somebody when you’re you’re trying to introduce a new person to our products. There’s always somebody who’s going to say, “Well, you know, I eat a fantastic diet, or can I get it from my diet?” Or in the case of omega-3, we’ll get the occasional person who says, “But I eat a lot of fish.” Well, the first problem is most people eat fish that’s cooked. Now, obviously, there’s an exception, uh, you know, with a sushi and so on, but most people eat cooked fish. When you cook omega-3, if you raise omega-3 to cooking temperatures, I’m not talking about ambient temperatures around your home, okay? I’m talking about cooking temperatures. You will destroy the omega-3. You just destroy it. So, don’t expect to get any benefit after you’ve eaten your baked fish or fried fish or however you’ve cooked your fish. If you cooked it, you’re still getting the protein value, but you’re not getting the omega-3 value. So, keep that in mind. Then there’s the other problem, and that is how much are we getting of omega-3 to omega 6. This is a big problem. Omega6 is one of the essential fatty acids, as is omega 9. And I will have people all the time who will say to me, they’ll quote some uh information that they found on the internet, but it was found uh to be no longer valid maybe 30 years ago, 40 years ago. Stuff stays on the internet forever. Anything that’s posted on the internet, it stays there forever. Whether it’s right or wrong, accurate or inaccurate. So be careful when you’re doing your personal research. You need to rely on objective scientific information to make sure you’re always right. Okay. The western diet right now has about a 15:1 ratio of omega6 to omega 3. The correct ratio should be 4:1. We’re getting so much omega-6 in the western modern diet that there’s just no hope of maintaining a proper healthy balance. Too much omega6 can cause hormone imbalances. It causes inflammation. Whereas omega-3 is fighting inflammation, omega6 causes inflammation. If you get above the 4:1 ratio, all of your seed oils are going to be high in omega6. And I’ve been telling people for a very long time, decades. I’ve been telling people, don’t cook with seed oils. Don’t use seed oils. It’s not natural. And they’ll say, yeah, but a seed oil comes from a seed, and a seed is natural. It’s not natural for humans to consume it that way. And there’s more to the story than that, but the point is too much omega6 is a bad thing. You don’t want that. And currently the ratio globally is looking like about 15:1. That’s a very unhealthy ratio. So why do I not recommend a combination omega-3 69? Well, number one, you shouldn’t have additional six. There’s too much going into your body right now. All the processed foods that claim to be low fat or low cholesterol, especially the ones that claim to be low cholesterol, those are going to be made with seed oils, they’re going to be a lot of it’s going to be a lot of omega6 in there. So, you don’t want to do that. Now, the best source of omega 9, because that’s the next question, then people say, “Well, what about omega 9?” The best source of omega 9 is extra virgin olive oil. Now again remember when you raise the temperature too high on an essential fatty acid you will either destroy it completely or pretty much mostly destroy it. You’ll have very little value out of it when you do that. So don’t cook with an essential fatty acid. Don’t do that including olive oil. Now avocados also are high in omega 9 and many nuts have omega 9. But you have to be uh careful of trying to keep your ratios right. Now I want everyone to understand there is no scientific absolute scientific agreement across the board on a minimum amount of omega-3 6 or 9. The ratios are agreed upon but not the overall amounts. And there are different experts who will argue different things. They’ll say that well the you know the u the Mediterranean diet that has such a extended lifespan in very large part is due to olive oil which of course would be in very large part due to omega 9. But you don’t need much. You need about a tablespoon a day. Now I use one tablespoon a day of extra virgin olive oil. put it on my salads. On occasion, I’ll do it with some sprouted bread. I don’t eat regular bread. I I avoid that. Uh but uh you can do that. And and that gets you your omega 9. And you don’t need six. Don’t add six to your diet. There’s too much already. So, as we look at these ratios of omega-3 to omega 6, it becomes real clear real fast that the modern diet is a problem in itself. Most of you knew that already. Uh, but it’s it’s just something to be aware of. Omega-3 sources and purity. Well, this is important. This is a question that comes up for me all the time because so many people find themselves I I like to see them as victims of misinformation and I don’t maybe the word victim is a bit too strong but that’s the way I see it because there’s so much good solid objective scientific information out there but you have lots of companies that well some companies will mislead people a little it, try to imply things that aren’t quite true, and then I have to spend all kinds of time unraveling it one person at a time. That gets old. That gets really old. So, let’s let’s go through this question uh right now for everyone. The first question that comes up is why did we choose fish oil? Now, of course, um, and and folks, I’ll say in advance, you’ve heard me say this before, and you know I mean it. Those of you who are vegetarians or vegans, you know, I love you. You know I’ll support you. And no, I’m not going to support the use of any seed oil for your omegas. Can you as a vegan or vegetarian convert uh let’s say flaxseed oil into uh EPA and DHA? And the answer is yes, you can. You can, but it’s highly inefficient. You have to burn up an essential amino acid in order to do that conversion because that’s not the way the human body was designed. And so I’m not going to have the argument, you know, I won’t argue with anybody about your dietary choices. Your choices are your choices. I will honor that and I’ll still love you whether I agree with you or not. Okay? But that’s the reason we didn’t go with things like borage oil or flax oil. It’s inefficient and you have to burn up an amino acid in order to convert it. It does not make sense. Now, if your if your personal principles are to the point where it’s like, well, I have to do this. Well, then you have to do it. Okay. And I just I don’t know what else to say about that. All right. Well, the next thing that comes up is, all right, well, why did you choose fish and not krill? There’s all this great advertisement about krill. You know what? Krill is really good whale food. And there are probably at least five, maybe six species of whales who eat krill on a regular basis. It’s great whale food. Now, the advertisement with krill oil, which at first it wasn’t proven, now it has been proven, uh, is kind of misleading. Now, listen to me carefully. So, are there studies that show that krill oil is absorbed faster into your blood than fish oil? The answer is yes. But the real question is, does it matter? Now, I want you to just be real for a minute. Does it matter if an oil that needs to be kept in your body and will be in your body for at least 8 hours and in some cases and in plasma as an example, it’ll stay in plasma up to 3 days. Does it matter if it got into your bloodstream in 20 minutes or 30 minutes? Is that a reason to buy krill versus fish? That’s not a reason. Is there any science that shows that krill does a better job on all of those things, that long list of things that I’ve already talked about? The answer is no. Their sales pitch is it’s absorbed faster. Okay, I’ll go with that. That’s what the science shows. Science is science and I have to accept it. But it doesn’t matter in a practical sense. It simply doesn’t matter. What matters is that you have the ratios that you need. You have the purity that you need and that you’re going to have this in your in your body and in your plasma especially as much as 3 days. It’ll stay active in various systems for about 8 hours. depends on the individual, depends on your activity. Like if you’re an athlete, you’re going to burn it faster, right? So, anywhere between two hours and eight hours typically, but then you’ll still have some stored in your plasma for up to 3 days. Okay? In fact, they’ve done tests with omega-3 and still found evidence of omega-3 up to 3 weeks after stopping the supplement. Now, not enough to really make a difference for your health, but the idea is that they could still find some there. All right. Now, what’s the other reason? Well, let me go back in history in Manatech history for a little bit when our marketing people and senior management uh one day came to me and said, “Should we have an omega-3?” And I said, “Not unless we can make our omega-3 different than everybody else’s.” number one and only if we’re doing it from fish and I’ve already explained to you why I wouldn’t do it from flax or borage which many of them came to me and said well you know for our very very small percentage of vegans they wanted to do it that way and and I explained to them what I’ve just explained to all of you but there’s another reason and this this reason is very very important important to me religious beliefs. Just as I respect your life choices, I respect your dietary choices. They are your choices, whatever they are. Not going to argue them at all ever. And I feel the same way about religion. If your religious belief prohibits you from consuming shellfish, as it says in the book of Leviticus, both in the Hebrew and in the Christian Bible, in both of those uh documents, they talk about um I don’t remember the precise quote because I’m not a theologian, okay? But it’s something to the effect of uh the consumption of anything um without fins and scales is an abomination onto God. It’s something like that. Again, don’t those of you who know the scripture, don’t email me and get mad at me, okay? That’s just that’s basically the way I remember it. The point is there’s about two billion human beings on this planet who believe their religion and they believe that it’s important according to their religion to respect that statement in the book of Leviticus. And by the way, I think, and again, I’m not a theologian, but I think that the statement is there’s a similar statement in maybe two or three other books of the Bible. I’m not 100% sure, but but I know it is repeated. It’s not just in Leviticus uh 11:9. Okay. So the point here is 2 billion people approximately couldn’t take our omega-3 if we made it from krill. Well, I can’t have that. I want everybody to have the best omega-3 with the right ratio and the right purity. Everybody. I don’t care who you are, where you live, or what your belief systems are. That’s what I want you to have. And that’s why I told marketing that all those years ago, you know, exactly what I just told all of you. And then we made the choice to seek out the best the best quality, the purest omega-3 oil as verified by scientific testing anywhere in the world. And I feel really, really good about providing that oil to all of you. All right. All right. So, what about ratios then? I’m I’m sometimes not frequently asked about this, but sometimes. All right. Humans need a 2:1 ratio of EPA to DHA. And chovies have an approximate 2:1 ratio of EPA to DHA. Now, the labels have to reflect whatever a government tells us that they have to reflect. So, we lay it out the label as we want to lay it out. We tell the government precisely what’s in the formula, but they will still make us put on the label whatever it is they make us put on the label. So I I’m often asked, well, why does the label look different, let’s say, in Australia than it does in the US or than it does in Canada or than it does in Japan. Different rules, different governments, different rules. All right. Now, we use anchovies. Some labels in some countries will say anchovies and sardines. Some people think they’re the same thing. They’re not the same thing. Anchovies and sardines are very similar fish, but they are different species. And chovies have a 2:1 ratio of EPA to DHA. You need a 2:1 ratio of EPA DHA. not something close to it. That’s what you need. One of the reasons that using anchovies is so smart is because they already have the right ratio. Now, let’s say that you were going to buy salmon oil. Now, salmon oil does not have the right ratio. In fact, salmon oil is typically one one. It varies with salmon. It’s not consistent, but it’s typically one one ratio. sometimes higher in DHA, slightly DHA dominant, but basically one one is not what you need, folks. You need 2:1. All right. So, what do the manufacturers of the salmon oil do? Well, some of them don’t do anything. They leave it exactly as it is, one, that’s not what you need. or they will add additional fatty acid to their salmon oil to balance it up to 2:1. This is processing. It’s inefficient and it’s doing more fishing than you need to fish. So, we use anchovies because they already have the right ratios and there is no possibility of anchovies being overfished. They are not on the endangered species list and they’re not going to be. I’ll tell you what, those little guys are so fertile. They breed with reckless abandon. When a when a school of anchovies passes through the ocean, it literally blackens the ocean below them. It it blackens out the sunlight completely because their schools are so thick. Now, sometimes some sardines will be caught up in that process. If they get caught in the net, well, then they’re processed just like the anchovies. But what we’re fishing for is the anchovies. Those are the schools that we’re uh aiming at. Okay? Uh and and so now I think you should probably have a pretty good idea why I want you to use this and why I recommended anchovies uh to uh to Manatech all those years ago. So hopefully that satisfies those questions. Those cute little anchovies. There they are. Don’t like them on pizza. I have to say. But boy, I sure like the oil. Definitely like the oil. Let’s talk about purity, then. All right. You’ve got a number of uh agencies and organizations that rate oil. All all I hate to speak in absolutes, but this case I must. All of the oils, fish oil, pearl oil, all of the oils have to go through a molecular distillation. Why? Any of you who’ve ever read my book, How to Survive on a Toxic Planet, you already know the answer. If you haven’t read that book, well, then let me bring you up to speed. I don’t care how the ocean looks to your eyes or a river or a lake, any body of water. There is no place on this planet that is not being exposed to toxins, chemical toxins. No place on this planet. And there are certain Oh gosh, I folks, you have uh for instance, mining that goes on in Brazil. There’s a lot of gold in Brazil, but the way they like to do their mining is they like to flush it uh with high power hoses. And as they’re doing this, they’re pushing mercury into the Amazon, which dumps into the ocean. That’s where it eventually flows out. And the mercury’s going out there. That’s not the only source of mercury. So, I’m not going to blame Brazil for that. But there’s mercury just all over in the oceans. But that’s not the only thing. I have a lot of people that say, “Oh, mercury.” No. You have no idea how many chemicals. Oh my god. so many chemicals. You know, in my toxic planet book, I talked about more than 75,000 chemicals created by human beings after the year 1930. That never existed before 1930. That stuff wasn’t there. The stuff is going into the water. It goes into the air. When it goes into the air, it’s carried around the planet in uh weather systems. And then when the precipitation comes down, rain or snow, that takes the toxin back down into water or into soil. And of course, when it goes into soil, it eventually gets into the water table. There is no way to avoid chemicals if you live on planet Earth. You you can’t. It’s not possible. Now, as humans, we can do smart things. We can use filtration and we can use molecular distillation, but a fish can’t do that. The fish literally have to pass water through their bodies. When it passes through their gills, they’re passing the toxin through their bodies. The toxin gets into their meat and into the oil. This is why all fish oils and krill oil all of it has to be molecularly distilled. No one owns the process. No company owns the process on that. It’s a patented process that was made by a German scientist decades ago, but the patents expired. And so, yes, a patented process, but no longer enforced. Every company uses it. We all use the same process, but there’s a difference besides the standard molecular distillation. If you are using lowgrade oils, you’re going to muck up the very fine works of the distillers. And so the way most companies will counter that is they’ll use a chemical to thin the oil or they use heat to thin the oil so that they don’t muck up the distillers. We use enzymes. No chemicals, no heat. Enzymes. The enzymes then separate everything for us so it can get through the distillation process without mcking up the distillers. Folks, there’s no smarter way to do this with existing science. No smarter way. So when you have agencies like the European Union of Scientists, and trust me on this one, nobody is tougher on purity and safety standards than the European Union of Scientists. And they say that this oil is the purest, that it exceeds their standards. The Council of Responsible Nutrition, it exceeds their standards. The Global Organization for EPA and DHA, it exceeds their standards and it exceeds the standards of the US Pharmacopia. This oil is pure. Purity is important. the right source, the right ratio, the purity, and the fact that we didn’t use chemicals or heat to do the separation process that has to occur with all oils when they’re making them. And we don’t have to artificially add back things because we’re using anchovies and we already have the right ratio to begin with. It’s just really smart and really efficient. I hope all of you appreciate that as much as I do. I mean, it makes me feel so good just saying that to everybody. All right. So, why would you then choose our omega-3 with D3? Bone health, heart health, immune support, all those should be obvious. Remember your registered TGA approved claims as well. Optimal timing. I often get people say, “Well, should I take this in the morning? Should I take it in the evening? Should I take it when I’m standing on my left foot facing west? What should I do? Well, if you’re worried about inflammation, you should take it around breakfast time. In fact, you should take it with your breakfast, especially if there’s fats in your breakfast because you’ll absorb this better. post to workout for muscle recovery or before bed at night for joint repair. You’ve never heard it said that before this morning, have you? Never. Well, there you are. That’s the way you should take it. So, for inflammation, take it with breakfast. If you’re an athlete, take it right after your workout. Or if you’re just being very physically active. Maybe you’re not an athlete, but you’re just being very physically active. Or if you want to assist your body in the area of joint repair before bed at night, that’s the way to do it. Well, what if you want joint repair and anti-inflammatory? Well, then take one before bed and one in the morning. What’s that? Just make it easy for you that way. All right, let’s talk about D3. Now, I’ve spent most of the time talking about omega-3s because the science on omega-3, it just it’s astounding how much there is. And you’ve learned so much new stuff today. I know you have. All right. So, vitamin D is fat soluble. We know that if you combine D3 and omega-3, the two of them are so synergistic, they actually absorb better than you would if you took them separately. It’s very very interesting. Now, also vitamin D acts as a hormone and not so those of you who’ve been having hormone issues, female related hormone issues, that’s not don’t worry about that. It’s not that kind of oral, right? It’s produced by the skin with sunlight. But there are some thoughts here. A lot of people say, “Well, I’m in the sun all the time.” And of course in Australia, maybe not so good to be in the sun too much as you know because of what’s happened to the ozone layer decades ago down there. All right. Well, I won’t we won’t go into that in depth. All right. So, the other thing is the darker your skin, the harder it is to convert vitamin D from sunlight. The lighter your skin, the easier darken the skin, the harder. If you’re a black African, it’s going to be very very hard. But so you just, you know, on that spectrum, okay, it’s very very important for the absorption of calcium. In fact, do not expect to absorb your calcium if you don’t have enough vitamin D. And that means bone strength, bone health. It also contributes to immune balance. But there’s there’s more. There’s still another factor with converting vitamin D from sunlight which I’ll get to in a moment. Now D3, why did we choose D3 coliciferol? Why did we do that? It’s the most bioactive form. It’s better than D2 in almost every study that we’ve looked at. It works synergistically with omega-3 as I mentioned before particularly well studied for omega-3 D3 combined for immune health and for heart health and this is very very important that we’re learning more all the time about genes and there’s a lot we don’t know okay but what we do know at this point is that there’s more than a thousand genes in your body that require vitamin D if they don’t have vitamin D, the gene expression will be incorrect and you will have problems that are related to those genes not expressing themselves correctly. Very very important. So for genetics it’s important. Okay. We know that globally somewhere between 40 and 60% it varies by country of course of people are deficient in vitamin D. It’s a very common deficiency. Now, in part, it’s about some of the restrictions with converting from sunlight. And again, this has to do with the lightness or darkness of your skin. It also has to do with your age. We’ll talk about that in a moment. And the fact that most people are spending more time indoors than they are outdoors. If you’re outdoors, do take the proper precautions, okay? I mean, you know what to do hopefully. And deficiencies of vitamin D are actually linked to weak immune systems and bone loss and of course increases in inflammation. What about aging? Now you know from the very first marketing director that we had at Manatech and I have known everybody. I I worked with the original Manic Tech crew way back uh more than about three decades ago and our first marketing director and every single marketing director we’ve had since then has all had the same fantasy and that fantasy is we’re going to get people under the age of 30 in great masses to join Manatech and no matter what they do it never works. You get a few here and there, but why do we keep having people over 40 buying our products and the majority of course will be more than 55 buying the products, but over 40. Why? Because people don’t buy things unless they think they need them or want them. You don’t just buy stuff to buy stuff. If they don’t think they need a supplement, they’re not going to buy one. You don’t start feeling the signs of aging until after 40. And then it’s just a slow, small creep. And it creeps up slowly and slowly. And the older you get, the more you feel it, and the more problems you see related to it. Well, one thing I can tell you for sure, the synthesis of vitamin D3 from sunlight is directly related to aging. As you age, you do it less efficiently than you did it when you were young. I spoke with a person earlier today. In fact, now I say earlier today, it’s early morning for you, but I’m in Florida in the US and it’s it’s u evening for me. Uh here it’s it’s nearly uh 8:00 p.m. and I spoke with a person earlier today that told me that she wasn’t getting her vitamin D. And I’d mentioned her that I was going to do a a talk on this uh for Australasia uh in my evening, your morning. And and she said, “Oh, I don’t understand why I’m coming up deficient in vitamin D. I I have the same routine in the sunlight as I used to.” Yeah, but now you’re 68 years old and you can’t convert from sunlight the way you used to. Oh, there’s a lot more things we don’t do well as we age. This is the reason that the majority of people who buy dietary supplements worldwide are over the age of 55. It’s always been that way and it will always be that way. Okay? So, you have that reduced deficiency. Do not expect to get the vitamin D you need from sunlight alone as you age. What went back to Now what about recommended intakes? There is no absolute solid science on this because of the way the studies have been done. The studies have been have been done narrowly focused on on questions as science should be done by the way. But there are so many questions related to omega-3. And there are so many possibilities with both omega-3 and with D3 that we just can’t be sure. Now, the Institute of Medicine, and you see that quoted on the screen here, they say that a safe upper intake of vitamin D3 is 4,000 international units daily. If you think you need more than that, you need to speak with your physician. You need to get a blood test, simple blood test, and that blood test will tell your physician exactly how much to recommend for you. And get the blood test done regularly. If you’ve had a deficiency of vitamin D, get the blood test done on a regular basis so that you know that you’re in a safe area. Is it possible to take too much? Yes, there is something called vitamin D toxicity. However, there’s a lot of difference of opinion on at what level that occurs. It really seems to be there’s a lot of variables. I’ll say it that way. So, that’s where you need to be at a minimum. Not. Here’s something that’s come up ever since the test, the blood test for vitamin D was made available to your doctors around the world. People would be shocked. Their physicians would be shocked at people who were deficient in vitamin D. The huge numbers of people who were deficient. And then a lot of our associates would say, “Well, our omega-3 has D3 in it, so I’ll just take enough of our omega-3 product to make up that much D3.” So perhaps your physician said to you, “Use 10,000 units or something like that.” Don’t do that. Take our omega-3 product as directed on the label and follow your physician’s advice. If it turns out that you need to have more vitamin D than is provided by our omega-3, then take the additional vitamin D at the same time you take your omega-3. It’ll be absorbed better. But follow your physician’s advice. Do it based on blood tests. This is very important to do this based on blood tests. So you know this for sure. When you combine them together, you you will have more synergy and you will have a better effect. That’s precisely why Manatech put D3 in our omega-3. Rather than making an omega product and a D3 product, we put them together because they work together so beautifully and and that’s really the best way to take those two. So now you’ve pretty much gotten the gamut of new information and I hope that you’ve learned a lot. I hope a lot of you were taking some great notes uh today too. Uh so it’s lots of good information and u I’m just real pleased with that presentation on omega-3 for every love it and I love it when you’re happy too. Absolutely. Oh, the the chat is going off. So, I’m just going to say if you anybody has questions, please pop them in the chat and we will get to them. And at this point, Dr. I’m going to say a an absolute huge thank you from us. And I am going to stop the recording
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