The Wonders of Fish Oil
March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Keith Scott has recently put together a great list of the reported benefits of fish oil. Check it out below:
Reported Benefits of Supplementing with Fish Oil:
- Fat Loss and improved body composition – Research has shown that fish oil seems to turn on the body’s fat burning mechanism and even better, it was shown that most of the fat loss was in the abdominal region. Yes, your belly fat!*
- Fights Inflammation – reduces the inflammation causing substances in the body. Inflammation will kill you eventually. It wreaks havoc on your body and long term health. Not to mention it is responsible for painful conditions around the body. Fish oil can help with muscle soreness and joint pain
- Improves Cardiovascular health -Fish oil lowers triglycerides, reduces the likely hood of blood clots, can lower high blood pressure, reduces chance of stroke.
- Mental Health – Reduces depression, and elevates the mood. It was even found that fish oil supplementation in children with ADHD dramatically improved their symptoms.
- Healthy Eyes – Fights Macular Degeneration, Glaucoma and dry-eye syndrome
- Boosts the immune system – Less time being sick, and better fight against colds and other illness.
- Increase s.ex drive – Do I really need to explain this any further?
- Helps with menstrual pain – Women rejoice!
- Improves digestion – So many people out there live with digestion problems. This supplement can really help with some of those issues.
- Fights Osteoporosis
- Helps to prevent cancer
- Lowers the risk of developing Alzheimer’s Disease
- Helps with Asthma
- Helps with Multiple Sclerosis
- Helps with skin problems – Eczema, and psoriasis. I can personally attest to this benefit. All of my life I battled with Eczema, and never won until I started using fish oil. Now, I rarely get an outbreak and if I do, it is short lived.
- Helps with Diabetes
- Can lower stress
- Reduces headaches
- Helps with Fibromyaglia
Low Carb Diets & Brain Cancer
March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Despite the pharmaceutical advances in cancer treatment, one of the most promising areas being explored in the fight against cancer is nutrition. Several studies in have been done in which rats have been given different types of brain cancer and then placed on a variety of dietary interventions (high carbohydrates vs. low carbohydrate). A 2007 study published in Nutrition & Metabolism showed that low carbohydrate (ketogenic) diets reduced human brain tumor size in rats between 65 and 35% depending on the type of tumor. The proposed mechanism behind the success of ketogenic diets and brain tumors is that the tumors need glucose to thrive while the brain can function very well on the ketones produced by the body in absence of dietary carbohydrates. For whatever reason this type of dietary intervention has not been studied in humans despite the complete safety of this type of treatment.
Thanks to Alwyn Cosgrove for bringing these studies to my attention.
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