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Omega 3 Supplement - Is It A Good Idea To Take Fish Oil As A Supplement?
Question: Omega 3 Supplement. I am a 19 year old male with good health. I have heard many benefits of fish oil. Is it a good idea to take it as a supplement everyday? What are the side effects? Should I ask my doctor first? By Drew
Answer: Omega 3 Supplement. It is very easy to miss the point as to why we should supplement everyday with fish oil. Omega 3 fats are ESSENTIAL fatty acids. As such we need them in our diet to stay healthy. The reason to supplement is that our diets have 20 to 50 times LESS omega 3 than what we need. This unbalance in the amounts of omega 3 creates the down payment for the diseases of modern age like, obesity, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and a host of disorders related to accelerated aging. All body cells have a membrane. Each membrane is mainly made of essential fats, or essential fatty acids, Omega 6 and Omega 3. If the membrane has too much Omega 6 it becomes hard, viscous and there are problems for food, energy and hormone transfer. When Omega 3 is sufficient the membrane is thinner, less viscous, more elastic, less inflamed. Too much 3 Omega and the membrane “drips”. Too much Omega 6 and is clogged. It has been established that the appropriate Omega 6/Omega 3 ratio is near 1:1. In our modern life this ratio has changed to around 20:1, and some times up to 50:1. We eat too much Omega 6.
It is estimated that 90% or more of people in the Western world are deficient in omega 3 fatty acids and most get far too much of the omega-6 fatty acids. Vegetarian diets, for example, tend to be very high in omega-6. About 50 years ago the vegetable oil manufactures started a war on Saturated and Tropical fats (coconut).
They won the war but the consumer lost its health, in the mean time. Disorders like heart disease, diabetes, obesity, etc., became everybody’s problem.
By the 90s we learned that the ratio of omega 6/ omega 3 should be close to 1/1, in order to maintain good health. That meant we should start increasing the omega 3 we ate and decreasing the omega 6(too many vegetable oils everywhere). For more on this go to my pages What is Omega 3 and Omega 3 Deficiency. My best for you, Alfredo E. P.S. Don’t forget your daily fish oil for your entire family. You can find omega 3 fish oil, molecularly distilled, free of impurities and sent anywhere in the World at low reasonable price, please click here
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