Omega 3 fish oil and fatty acids – What are they and what do they do?
Essential fatty acids (EFAs) are the good fats that everyone needs in order to maintain optimal health. These good fats raise your levels of good cholesterol, and compete with bad fats, such as bad cholesterol, by sending it to the liver to be broken down and excreted. One key function of EFAs is that they help the body produce prostaglandins, which regulate functions such as heart rate, blood clotting, blood pressure, fertility and conception. Essential Fatty Acids – Getting them in your diet? A good supply of EFAs is absolutely vital if all our organs are to function at a comfortable level of health. Theres just one problem: the body cannot produce them by itself. That means they must come from the diet, and today our diets are very much lacking in the right quantity and quality of essential fatty acids. Deficiency and imbalance of EFAs is especially pronounced in the Western world, with its abundance of junk food. EFAs are whats known as long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, which
