The Omega 3 and Omega 6 family contain fats called essential fatty acids (EFA’s) or Foundation Fats.
These are “essential” because our body cannot synthesize those particular forms of fatty acids, so we have to obtain them from food and they are only found in plant based food sources. The two essential fatty acids are called alpha-linolenic acid (Omega 3) and linoleic acid (Omega 6).
Essential fatty acids (EFA’s) are important for our health as they have structural & metabolic functions to do around the body. Part of our cell membrane is made from alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) and linoleic acid (LA). Nourishing our cell membranes with EFA’s will keep them flexible and permeable in order to allow nutrients and oxygen to come into the cell and wastes and toxins to go out of the cell. If our cell membranes are nourished then the biological processing within the cell will function optimally.