What about omega 3 fish supplements for cardiology? Most people, including some doctors, have heard of the connection but are pretty vague on how and why it works. This article will address the tie in to the cardiovascular system - not just the heart.
According to the American Heart Association [AHA], many of the hundreds of thousands of cardiac deaths each year are preventable. Diet and exercise are certainly two long accepted methods for prevention. However, omega 3 fish supplements for cardiology is something that has been accepted in Europe and Asia for years. It is slowly but surely finding acceptance in the U.S. medical community.
Omega 3 fatty essential acids are found mainly in fish oil from various cold water species. They are called essential because our body can not make them.
This is the beginning of the problem. Unless you are unusually diligent, you probably have an omega 3 deficiency. That would make you normal. Most researchers in the field believe that the majority of people in the Western world have such a deficiency.
How does that affect us?
Omega 3s help the cardiovascular system in several ways:
First, as a blood thinner. Stay with me on this one. Everyone knows about high cholesterol causing blood clots - some consumers even know that fish oil reduces LDL [the "bad"] cholesterol.
What is not so well known is that an overactive immune system contributes to the problem. Omega 3s keep our system in balance - something that is very difficult in the modern world. Pollution, processed foods, fast foods and vegetable oils rev up our immune responses like a pit crew at the Indy 500.
This results in too many platelets floating around in the blood. They tend to coat artery walls, in effect "hardening" them. Constricted, less flexible arteries are guaranteed to raise your risk of a stroke or heart attack.
Also, omega 3s are part of every cell membrane in our body. In the heart they maintain "ion channels" for the ions sodium, potassium and calcium. Without the right amounts of these ions, the hearts "electrical" system goes haywire. People who do not survive heart attacks usually succumb to cardiac arrhythmia - wildly erratic electrical activity of cardiac cells.
In Europe they take omega 3 fish supplements for cardiology very seriously. In a N.Y. Times interview, Dr. Massimo Santini, chief of cardiology at Rome's San Filippo Neri Hospital, said that failure to prescribe fish oil to a heart patient "would be considered tantamount to malpractice."
The AHA recommends 1-2 grams per day of fish oil supplements - more if under a doctors care. I personally take 2 grams daily of a quality product. I have never had any heart problems. I want to keep it that way.
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