Genetic Adaptation of Fat Metabolism Key to Development of Human Brain

About 300,000 years ago people didn’t have many options when it came to food and nutrients. That’s why the human body automatically produced large amounts of Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids. This adaptation actually was useful and helpful for humans then. However, this adaptation in today’s life would actually result in disorders like cardiovascular disease. The reason being that now you can get these fatty acids in vegetable oils or from eating fish easily. There are two key enzymes that do produce the fatty acids from vegetable oils and we are the only humans that actually have that unique genetic variant. So having to obtain these fatty acids easily in our everyday diet and our bodies producing can lead to many issues to your bodies; since we shouldn’t have too much of it. This article actually make sense cause back then we really didn't have much when it came to food or surviving so we were lucky enough that our bodies were able naturally make these fatty acids to help us survive but who could have thought that would actually hurt us now just because we have many types of food that we can obtain fatty acids from.