Fish Oil Benefits
Fish Oil Benefits. Many studies are currently available that indicate consuming fish oil improves our health! Naturopathy is a field of study that considers nutrition on our over-all health.
The risk of cardiovascular disease, certain cancers, psoriasis, and rheumatoid arthritis goes down when we add these essential oils to our daily diets.
Fish Oils inhibit the development of plaque which blocks arteries.
Not only does it lower your bad cholesterol, it raises your good cholesterol, helps nitric acid production, reduces inflammatory processes, and reduces the infiltration of immune cells into plaque.
Triglycerides levels are lowered, especially in individuals with very high levels, when we incorporate diets high in omega-3 fatty acids. Exercise alone does not accomplish this.
Consuming fish oil helps normalize our cholesterol levels. It reduces VLDL, or bad cholesterol and raises our good cholesterol. The bad cholesterol takes the cholesterol to our body and deposits it into our arteries. The good cholesterol, HDL, takes it from our arteries to our liver to be excreted into our GI tract.
There have been studies that indicate reduction in hypertension, or high blood pressure, when we eat omega-3 fatty acids.
Additionally, we are less likely to suffer from a heart attack, our immune function improves, and omega-3's are critically important to the developing baby. All important aspects of Naturopathic Medicine.
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