The One Omega Number Everyone Should Know | Genx Hits Menopause E26
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Host Heather Reilly Hiemstra won a drawing at the most recent SRQ Women's Expo — and what she won gave her a whole new understanding of omega fatty acid numbers and what they mean to our health & longevity.
In “One Omega Number Everyone Should Know”, Heather sits down with Dr. Jeanine Fedorko, chiropractic physician and 35-year functional wellness veteran, to unpack the one ratio most doctors never test and almost nobody has in range: omega-6 to omega-3.
Your body has an inflammation dial — and for 99% of Americans, it's been cranked past the safety line for years.If your joints ache, your energy flatlines, or you've been dutifully swallowing fish oil for years and still feel off — this episode will explain exactly why, and what to do about it in 120 days or less.
Conversations include
- The Ratio That Runs Everything Why the omega-6 to omega-3 balance — ideally 3:1, but averaging 99:1 in American test results — determines whether your cells can receive nutrients, release toxins, or do either at all. Dr. Jeanine explains why a rigid, omega-6-dominant cell wall is the wall every other protocol is quietly hitting.
- 73% of the Grocery Store Is Working Against You A frank breakdown of where excess omega-6s hide — safflower, sunflower, corn, and vegetable oils; frozen meals; salad dressings; even high-end restaurant kitchens — and why simply "eating healthy" isn't enough to correct decades of imbalance.
- The Polyphenol Difference Why most fish oils — including algae-based formulas — are either stripped of their natural antioxidants during purification or quietly rancid by the time they reach you, and how re-binding early-harvest olive oil polyphenols to the omega-3 molecule changes what actually reaches the cell wall.
- Your 120-Day Window The science of red blood cell turnover and why Dr. Jeanine's own ratio dropped from 24:1 to 3.6:1 in just 60 days — and what that means for the minimum time any nutritional intervention deserves before you form an opinion.
- Test-Based Nutrition How a simple at-home finger-prick test (under $200) gives you a before-and-after number, why this ratio almost never appears on standard lab panels — and why even when it does, it rarely gets flagged or addressed.
Episode Highlights
"Your cell wall is so rigid when your omega-6 is so much higher than your omega-3 that I can't get my good stuff in and I can't get your bad stuff out. So unless I fix this, good luck with everything else."
— Dr. Janine Fedorko"We don't have to be inflamed and on fire from the inside out all the time. The problem is the inflammation gets turned on — and then it doesn't get turned back off. Even myself, I came out at 24 to 1. My thumb joints, my big toe — the areas you get degenerative changes in just with time. I did have those going on. And I'm already starting to feel better in areas I didn't even realize."
— Dr. Janine Fedorko"The endocannabinoid system literally doesn't function if you do not have a good substratum of omega in your body. It just won't function."
— Heather"97% of people tested around the globe are coming back out of balance. And in America, we're high achievers — 99% of us are coming back out of balance. And I did test my own, and even myself came out at 24 to 1."
— Dr. Janine Fedorko"Your red blood cells have a life of 120 days. So anything you ever try — whether it's this product or some other recommendation — you have to give something three to four months before you have an opinion, because your body has not had a chance to make the changes to actually show you that it's working. If you stop anything prior to that timeframe, you honestly didn't try it."
— Dr. Janine FedorkoTune in to find out the one number Dr. Janine says 100% of people need to know — and how unlocking that ratio may be the key that finally lets everything else you're doing work.
About Dr. Jeanine Fedorko
Dr. Jeanine Fedorko is a chiropractic physician with 35 years of clinical practice focused on root-cause, whole-body wellness. Her work spans hormonal health, detoxification, parasite and gallbladder protocols, and test-based nutritional intervention.
Rather than seeing the body as a collection of symptoms, she honors the connection between the physical, emotional, chemical, and energetic layers of being. Through tools such as hair analysis, saliva hormone testing, and advanced interpretation of blood work, she uncovers the deeper imbalances that may be holding you back from true wellness.
Her work extends beyond the physical. Using modalities like Emotion Code and Body Code, she gently supports the release of trapped emotions and the clearing of the Heart Wall—creating space for the body to heal as it was always designed to. Reconnective Healings reconnect us to the strings of time and strands of DNA that we have been disconnected from and put us on our life path more noticeably.
What makes her approach unique is the way she weaves science and intuition together. You are not just treated—you are guided, educated, and empowered to understand your body and reconnect with its innate intelligence.
Find out more at drjeaninefedorko.com
