It is universally known that humans ascended in Africa and migrated out to different parts of the world. Humans are land animals and the digestive systems and teeth are quite similar to the great apes like baboon, chimpanzee and gorilla. These are massive strong animals. Baboon and gorilla are vegetarian animals and the chimp does not eat a lot of meat, either. Surprisingly one of the three great apes does not eat any fish. All their food is eaten raw and there’s not a single research that shows that those primates roast their food over a fire. So thee great source of omega 3 are from living plants they eat, not from fish.
How and when does fish come into the human diet? If our ancestors are catching fish way back then, on lakes in the African plains, it surely wasn’t omega 3 loaded, arctic, cold-water fish. It would have been fish from warmer waters, which don’t have high levels of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) since they simply don’t need them. Instead, warm water fish are rich in saturated fats with at least 14Xs LESS EPA/DHA than the cold water fish.
They don’t need or want the long-chain PUFAs because they don’t need the “anti-freeze.” In fact, long-chain PUFAs in a warm climate might be a real danger. They would be far more susceptible to oxidative damage than the saturated fatty acids found in warm water fish. Therefore, logic tells us that rich, omega 3 bearing fish cannot be a required part of the human diet. If they were, the human species would not have made it this far. (“Influence of omega-3 fatty acids on the prostaglandin-metabolism in healthy volunteers … synergistic effect of omega 6 and omega 3 fatty acids at low doses which is greater than the effect of high doses of n-3 fatty acids alone.” Prostaglandins in the Cardiovascular System, 1992.)
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