Fish Oil For Skin, Hair, and Nails

by Martha
(India)

I understand that fish oil is good for heart disease, inflammation and depression but I am more interested in the benefits it can have on my skin and nails. I’ve just started taking them in gel capsules, in hope that it will help my eczema/dry skin/dinted nails.

Martha

Answer:

Martha: one of the first symptoms you get when you have a low omega 3 diet is in your skin, hair and nails. They look dull and grow slowly.

How do you know whether you suffer from a fatty-acid imbalance? A good way to tell whether you have an imbalance is to look at your hair and skin.

If your skin is scaly or dry, if you have brittle or soft nails or if you have unmanageable hair, then you just may have a fatty-acid imbalance, or better an omega 3 deficiency. Who would think that a deficiency of Omega 3 fatty acids could be the cause of bad-hair days?

There are other indicators. We should look for such as excessive thirst, poor healing of wounds, irritability, fatigue or weakness, frequent infections, dry eyes and hyperactivity.

The majority of people can probably relate to having soft nails, dry skins, and those all too often bad-hair days!

Most good hairdressers understand that poor nutrition can cause your hair to be dull and lifeless, and it may even affect the growth of your hair. Thus, it makes sense that a good diet can improve your hair’s quality.

The same often happens with pets, their hair is an easy to see signal that they need a change in food (read my pages on pet food and omega 3 for dogs )

Omega 3 fatty acids are vital to healthy hair. When the body is starved of essential nutrients suck as the Omega 3 fatty acids, the hair can become dull and unhealthy. It is a well-known fact that Omega 3 fatty acids contain hair-growing properties.

There are three main nutrients found in Omega 3: Alpha Linolenic Acid, or ALA, Eicosapentaenoic acid, or EPA, and Docosahexaenioc acid or DHA. In addition to the sources mentioned above, you can find high amounts of Omega 3 in halibut, albacore, herring, canola oil, clams, sardines, trout, walnut and shrimp.

You can read more at Fish Oil and Hair

All the benefits from fish oil, that are more than 50, can be reduced to these main actions:

Reducing inflammation in every cell

Optimizing brain function and operation (DHA is highly present in the nervous system)

Abnormal cell proliferation control

Blood clotting control

Blood fats control

Improved immune system operation

You can get more information at Fish Oil Supplements

My best for you,

Alfredo E.

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