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Recommendation Number 2:
 Super Omega-3 EPA/DHA with Sesame Lignans and Olive Fruit Extract
4 softgels per day.
Ingest Plenty of Omega 3 Fish Oil Supplements
The omega-3 fatty acids from cold-water fish have received an enormous amount of favorable publicity. One reason is that there have been more scientific studies to document fish oil’s multiple health benefits than perhaps any other nutrient.
Commercial fish oil supplements comes in a wide range of purities and potencies. When evaluating the safety and potency of fish oil, the following three factors should be considered:
- Stability: Fish oil can easily turn rancid, so a measurement of oxidative by-products is a critical step to ensure that the omega-3s you swallow are fresh.
- Purity: Cold-water ocean fish are rich in EPA/DHA, but are often contaminated with pollutants like PCBs, mercury, and arsenic. The fish oil you swallow should go through the purification processes needed to reduce contaminant levels to safe ranges.
- EPA-DHA consistency: The primary active ingredients in fish are the omega 3 fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Assaying fish oil to make sure it meets label claim is important to ensuring you are ingesting the desired amounts of EPA/DHA.
In order to protect consumers against unsafe and ineffective products, the Council for Responsible Nutrition has proposed strict guidelines for all fish oil products marketed in North America. The good news is that a fish oil concentrate is available today that exceeds these proposed, upgraded standards and stringent international standards.
Supportive but not conclusive evidence shows that consumption of EPA and DHA omega-3 fatty acids may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.
The Gold Standard Fish Oil Extract
Super Omega-3 EPA/DHA with Sesame Lignans & Olive Fruit Extract is a fish oil concentrate that uses a patented extraction and purification process to improve stability, reduce contaminants to virtually undetectable levels, and to protect against oxidation and peroxidation of the delicate omega-3 fatty acids.
To obtain a fish oil this clean and stable, a patented method was developed to purify the oil with an intense distillation process. The result is cleaner fish oil that has shorter heat exposure and prevents thermal (heat) degradation of the EPA/DHA. The result is an improved fish oil that exceeds the standards set by international rating agencies. Super Omega-3 is certified to contain no detectable levels of mercury, arsenic, lead, cadmium, and other toxic metals by the International Fish Oil Standards (IFOS™). This product meets or exceeds IFOS standards for PCBs, dioxins, and other contaminants, and thus has received its highest 5-star rating.
These patented distillation processes remove other impurities that lead to reflux, burping, and regurgitation in some people. The Super Omega-3 EPA/DHA also smells better by virtue of these processes and is more tolerable to people with sensitive stomachs.
What Makes Super Omega-3 EPA DHA the Best Of All Fish Oil Supplements?
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| This chart shows that GLA can follow a pro-inflammatory or anti-inflammatory pathway in the body. Sesame lignans suppress the enzyme (delta-5 desaturase) that converts DGLA into arachidonic acid. By blocking the undesirable enzyme (delta-5 desaturase), more DGLA is available for conversion into beneficial prostaglandin E1. |
Super Omega-3 is the only fish oil concentrate that provides a full spectrum blend of fatty acids and synergistic nutrients to provide optimal effects in the body.
The addition of sesame lignans to fish oil enhances its beneficial effects.1 When fats are consumed, they are broken down into compounds that either promote or suppress inflammatory reactions. Specialized enzymes in the body determine which inflammatory pathway fats will follow.
Sesame lignans inhibit a dangerous enzyme (delta-5 desaturase) that causes DGLA (dihomo-gamma linolenic acid) to be converted into arachidonic acid, a precursor to the toxic inflammatory factors prostaglandin E2 and the leukotrienes.2 (Refer to the chart to the right for a clearer understanding of these metabolic pathways).
Extending the Stability of Fish Oil in the Body
Sesame also functions as a powerful antioxidant, and its addition to fish oil lowers undesirable lipid peroxidation rates.3,4 Sesame suppresses the formation of free radicals from the DHA fraction of fish oil, which has extremely high oxidative susceptibility.5 A test of this effect was confirmed in rats fed a high DHA diet from fish oil. In the first part of the study, DHA alone lowered vitamin E levels and raised a measure of free radical damage. The addition of sesame raised plasma and liver vitamin E levels higher, increased concentrations of DHA, and completely suppressed free radical production from the DHA in tissues and serum.3
The combination of sesame and fish oil (as found in the Super Omega-3 formula) thus helps to suppress free radical production of fish oil by blocking lipid peroxidation and simultaneously boosting levels of beneficial fatty acids (such as DGLA and DHA).6,7
Increased Burning of Blood Lipids
In order for cells to produce energy, they must burn fatty acids in their mitochondria. The failure of liver mitochondria to properly burn fatty acids can result in excess accumulation of triglycerides. Triglycerides not burned in the liver accumulate in the blood and contribute to arterial occlusion and unwanted weight gain.
In two animal studies, combining sesame lignans and fish oil caused hepatic fatty acid oxidation rates to rise much higher than fish oil alone.8,9 This shows that the synergistic combination of fish oil and sesame improves mitochondrial fatty acid energy utilization to facilitate triglyceride reduction and guard against the free radicals generated as an inevitable consequence of higher cellular metabolism.3,4,8,9
The Virtues of Olive Fruit Polyphenols
Published studies have shown that the olive fruit polyphenol — hydroxytyrosol — scavenges the dangerous free radical hydrogen peroxide and reduces LDL susceptibility to oxidation.10 The oxidation of LDL plays a significant role in the development of vascular impairment.
According to two studies, as the polyphenol content of olive oil increases, there is a benefecial increase in glutathione antioxidant activity and a decrease in the oxidation of LDL.11,12 These effects are associated with improved cardiovascular health.
Super Omega-3 contains a standardized olive fruit extract to provide the full spectrum of benefits associated with the ingestion of fish and olive oils, including the potent hydroxytyrosol polyphenol.
Additional Protection Against Platelet Aggregation
When blood platelets that guard against excessive bleeding become overactivated, they can form clots inside arteries leading to acute circulatory disruptions. Fish oil’s EPA/DHA help protect against excess platelet aggregation.
An olive fruit polyphenol called oleuropein has also been shown to reduce blood platelet activity in humans,13 thus providing yet another explanation as to why those who consume a Mediterranean diet have such low rates of sudden vascular events.
Oleuropein from the olive fruit also has additional biological properties. When administered to human fibroblast skin cells cultures, oleuropein delayed the appearance of senescent (aging) structural changes and increased the lifespan of these cells by approximately 15%.14
In addition, oleuropein has been proven effective in down-regulating HER2 expression.15 These findings help explain why those who consume a Mediterranean diet have such marked reductions in problems related to excess expression of the HER2 gene, which is part of a family of genes that plays a role in regulating cell growth.
Super Omega-3 not only contains the finest omega-3 fish oil blend in the world, but also provides an olive blend standardized for hydroxytyrosol and oleuropein.
Premium Quality at an Affordable Price
Despite the costly processes involved in making this superior fish oil concentrate, the low price of Super Omega-3 EPA/DHA with Sesame Lignans & Olive Fruit Extract enables consumers to obtain the broad-spectrum benefits of this omega-3 supplement along with additional beneficial nutrients.
A bottle containing 120 softgels of Super EPA/DHA with Sesame Lignans & Olive Fruit Extract retails for $32.00. If you are a member of the Life Extension Foundation®, you can reduce your cost to only $21.00 each when four bottles are purchased at the same time.
IFOS™ certification mark is a trademark of Nutrasource Diagnostics, Inc. These products have been tested to the quality and purity standards of the IFOS™ program conducted at Nutrasource Diagnostics, Inc.
Important note: If you are taking anticoagulant drugs, use this product only under the supervision of your physician. Blood tests that measure clotting can be used to ensure these nutrients are not reducing the clotting factors in your blood to abnormal levels.
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