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Aug 5
There may be yet more benefits from taking a good omega 3 fish oil supplement. I emphasize good (and pure) because there are a lot out there that can be close to worthless because they are either loaded with mercury and other contaminants, or they are not potent enough to do any good.
A quality omega 3 dietary supplement will absorb into the body properly and actually do the things it’s supposed to such as help protect heart health, blood pressure, make your skin glow, and generally boost your overall health. Now, we add another benefit when it comes to taking fish oil when pregnant.
Apparently, research has found that women that took fish oil supplements during pregnancy had infants that seemed to be more resistent to the common cold. Specifically, their babies seemed to be more protected against the common cold because their immune systems seem to have a boost from the omega 3 fatty acids their mothers took during their gestation in the womb.
The specific omega fatty acid that the mothers with healthier babies took was DHA. This is a specific acid that is found in some omega 3 fatty acid supplements, and fish oil.
Why the boost in immunity from taking the omega 3 supplement? Well, it is well known that these acids have some great protective properties on many cells in the body. Turns out they also may help in the development of certain types of cells in the body, namely the immune functional cells.
It is thought that this is the reason behind the baby’s increased immunity function due to the supplementation. To gain the most benefit, the mother likely would want to take the supplement the entire time during her pregnancy, as the more trimesters she gets in, the more she can help her baby’s cells develop.
This is more great news on this supplement, and the great part is that it is a relatively inexpensive one to take.
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Why Probiotics are Important
Filed under Nutritional SupplementsMay 23Probiotics, by definition, are live microorganisms that are beneficial to the host organism. The most common type of probiotics are lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria but there are also some yeasts and bacilli. Food sources that are the most common for probiotic consumption are yogurts, soy yogurts and dietary supplements.
Specific medical reasons for consuming probiotics are for atopic diseases, urogenital infections, relief of chronic inflammatory bowel diseases and prevention of diarrhea that is pathogen induced. They also keep candida in check, and ensure you do not get yeast imbalances.
You don’t have to have a disease process to consume probiotics and benefit from them. They work well to keep healthy people’s immune systems strong, so we all can stay healthy.
Probiotics can help by creating a more acidic environment in the digestive tract which helps to inhibit the reproduction of pathogens. A number of different kinds of probiotics produce natural substances that decrease the disease causing organisms in your body.
For optimum immunity, your digestive tract is an important part of your body’s defenses. Most of the bacteria in our body occur in the digestive tract and these are actually beneficial to our immune system.
Research done on probiotics shows that many of them function to aid mucus membranes and immune cells working together to fight off infection. In a German study, scientists found that the consumption of probiotic supplements decreased the duration of colds by 2 days.
Because most Americans eat highly processed foods, there is little fiber in their systems for probiotics to feed on. This, in turn, is causing deficits of probiotics in their systems. With an increase in fiber to your diet, the probiotics that naturally occur in your gut will thrive and protect you better against disease.
Inversely, the more you increase processed foods and sugars in your diet, the less the probiotics in your body, leaving your immune system weakened. Some herbal colon cleansing products help to not only cleanse out old waste, but also to replenish the probiotics in the intestines that keep the colon and intestines healthy and functioning well.
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Apr 28
Vitamins and nutritional supplements are items we take to improve our health so we should have some common sense in how we use them. Storage should be noted on the label of your vitamins and supplements.
Most vitamin labels say to keep them tightly sealed and to store in a cool dry place. Read your label to see what kind of storage applies to your vitamins and supplements and comply with what is recommended.
Pay attention to what kind of vitamins you are taking to determine if you should take yours with just water or eat some food with it. The recommendation for taking a multivitamin is to take them with a meal.
The reasoning behind this is that most of the fat soluble vitamins, which are vitamins A,D,E and K, are absorbed better when they are taken together with some fat, you could even pair it with an omega 3 supplement, since this is fat. The other logic behind this practice is that it will reduce stomach upset.
Do not expect to get benefits from your vitamins if your diet is poor. There is no substitute for eating a healthful diet with lean protein sources, lots of fruits and vegetables and whole grains. A vitamin pill will not improve your health and immunity to disease without eating a quality healthy diet.
The concept that more is better does not apply to vitamin supplementation. Overdoing one particular vitamin or mineral can actually harm your health. Taking a multivitamin is usually preferred to singling out just one vitamin in large doses. Staying within the normal range of the RDA printed on the label is the usual recommendation.
For all of your health care needs, you should inform your health care professionals of any and all vitamins and supplements you are taking. A lot of people think that vitamins and supplements are not medications, so they feel there is no need to mention them.
This is not the case. For an example of the importance of this communication, a high dose of fish oil can inhibit blood clotting. This medical fact could be very important if you’re given an anticoagulant such as Coumadin or if you need any surgical procedure.
Another reason this is important is that vitamins and supplements can interfere with how effective prescribed medication will be. If your physician doesn’t know about your vitamins or supplements, it could have harmful consequences.
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Nov 22
Omega 3 fatty acids have been known as a great help for everything from the health and appearance of your skin and hair to the health of your heart, circulatory system, and your brain function. It’s even been implicated as a tool to help treat depression long term because of the way it works in the brain.
It was thought that a component of fish oil supplements, or omega 3 fatty acid supplements called DHA, may help to slow the progression of alzheimer’s disease and cushion the blow of it, or even help to treat it, since alzheimers patients were usually showing a deficiency in this particular fatty acid. However, a study that was funded has proven apparently that DHA’s do not help to treat or slow the progression of this unfortunate disease.
The confusing piece to this puzzle is that seemingly there was a lot of placebo and anecdotal evidence that those who get a lot of these beneficial fatty acids in their diet have reduced risk of, or slowed development of, alzheimers. However, when it was put into a clinical study the benefits to existing alzheimers patients just weren’t able to be proven.
I still say that omega 3 dietary supplements are one of the supplements that everyone should take. While it may not help with cognitive abilities when a disease has already started, it certainly may still help protect against them, and increase your quality of life in the mean time. It’s multiple anti inflammatory and antioxidant benefits are still present, that has not changed.
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Mar 28
We know that omega 3 fatty acids have proven multiple times over to be an excellent additional supplement to the diet. Not just a supplement for omega 3′s though, you also should really try to get these in your diet through the foods you eat as well, since foods are typically broken down better into the individual nutrients they were meant to be.
They also work more synergistically with other healthy ingredients in whole foods than just a supplement alone does. However, that being said, I still take an very pure omega 3 supplement every day, just to make sure I am getting plenty of this well tolerated, overall health and energy and beauty boosting nutrient into my system. If I’m going a week without eating a lot of fish, nuts or avocados, I especially am grateful to have my trusty little omega 3 supplement around.
New research is showing quite a statistically interesting connection between a high grade, high potency new omega 3 supplement (the name was not disclosed, but there are several great ones on the market that may not be the cheapest, but they are very pure and high grade) and the reduction of potentially cancerous bowel polyps.
As you may or may not have heard, bowel polyps, or colon polyps, are known for having the potential to grow into larger, potentially cancerous, tumors. When people who were genetically prone to growing polyps in their bowels took the high grade omega 3 oil, it showed a remarkable ability to reduce the size of their polyps, whereas those on placebo realized a gain in the size, and now slowing of growth.
So, add another health benefit to the incredible omega 3 fat. Not only does it help protect your heart and promote circulatory health, make your skin look great, protect your tissues, help regulate the bloos sugar, and a host of other great benefits, it also may be a super cancer fighter. There is no reason to not start eating some serious white fatty fish in your diet, and incorporating those avocadoes, almonds, walnuts, and other omega 3 foods into your lifestyle NOW.
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