I was wrong: ARA and DHA are essential fatty acids

Side note: I also experienced numbness and tingling in my limbs and feet way too easily during the past 1 year. If I sat down cross legged my feet would go numb remarkably quickly, and sometimes if I did significant physical exertion of feet and legs would get tingly and numb for a while. Pretty weird, but easy to ignore, and half the time it didn’t happen anyway. In retrospect, I think it’s possible that might have been a sign of a mild DHA deficiency, but I’m not sure. If it was, then it’s gone now, and it was the only symptom I ever had of a DHA deficiency personally. But that was pretty weird. My wife and one of my kids were different and had more clear and persistent symptoms of DHA deficiency.

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