You don't need to be a Konformist reader to know fish & olive oils have great health benefits, but here's some new things to add to the plus list.
From CharlesPoliquin.com:
In numerous articles and in my BioSignature Modulation courses, I’ve explained that fish oil can help you burn fat by turning on lipolytic genes and reduce stored fat by turning off lipogenic genes. But for some of you, especially those of you on a budget, that may not be a good-enough reason to spend your hard-earned money on this product. That’s all about to change because now I finally have a GREAT reason for you to take fish oil:
Fish oil can help us build muscle!
Yes, you heard me right. Want bulging biceps, powerful pecs, and shoulders like boulders? Fish oil is the supplement for you...
Finally, Fish Oil Is Anabolic!
Charles Poliquin
http://www.charlespoliquin.com/ArticlesMultimedia/Articles/Article/624/Finally_Fish_Oil_is_Anabolic.aspx
And from Huffpo:
Could a traditional food have pain- and inflammation-reducing effects similar to over the counter pain medicine like ibuprofen?
Scientists from Italy, Spain, the U.S. and Australia have discovered that extra virgin olive oil can provide significant health benefits, including the ability to help reduce pain and inflammation.
This robust, flavorful oil is an example of the food as medicine concept, that foods can have a powerful impact on health.
A Mythical, Sacred Oil
From ancient Greece to the Holy Land, olive oil has been treasured. Celebrated as sacred in Greek mythology, the olive branch symbolized peace in Hellenic culture. Evidence of this ancient oil was discovered in 1901 at the "Room of the Olive Press" at Knossos on the island of Crete in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. From there olives were pressed into oil over 4,500 years ago and the olive oil was exported to North Africa and mainland Greece.
Cultivation of olive trees spread around the Mediterranean where olive oil flourished along with many early civilizations. The bible speaks of olive oil, and it has been used by Christianity and Judaism as a holy anointing oil...
Recent research has identified the antioxidant called oleocanthal, which is only found in extra-virgin olive oil. Scientists at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, in Philadelphia, found that oleocanthal in olive oil has a potency strikingly similar to that of the drug ibuprofen in inhibiting the cyclooxygenase (Cox) enzyme that causes pain and inflammation. Their findings were published in the science magazine Nature.
Given the side effects of common pain relieving drugs, finding a nutritional way to reduce pain and inflammation could be a solution for people suffering from pain.
In another study Italian researchers explain that the characteristic pungent and bitter taste of virgin olive oil have been attributed to phenols in the oil that have potential antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, chemopreventive and anti-cancer benefits.
Research on Health Benefits of Olive Oil
At the meeting of the "International conference on the healthy effect of virgin olive oil" that took place in Spain in 2005, numerous benefits of virgin olive oil from the research were outlined. They looked at the consumption of olive oil from the perspective of issues such as cardiovascular health, cancer and longevity. With respect to anti-aging they noted: "The more recent studies consistently support that the Mediterranean diet, based in virgin olive oil, is compatible with a healthier ageing and increased longevity."
Consumption of olive oil has been associated with:
•Reduction of total cholesterol and an increase in the high-density cholesterol (HDL-C), which has a protective effect on blood vessels.
•Improved sensitivity of cells to insulin, which helps to prevent the Metabolic Syndrome. Preventing Metabolic Syndrome is important, because the syndrome increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity.
•Decreased risk of cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure and Alzheimer's disease.
Potent Antioxidant Power of Olive Oil
Phenolic compounds are potent antioxidants found in virgin and extra-virgin olive oil. These compounds give unrefined olive oils their distinctive flavors and high degree of stability.
Studies indicate these compounds may be able to:
•Turn off the activity of genes that produce the kind of inflammation that causes coronary heart disease.
•Decrease production of inflammatory chemicals called thromboxanes and leukotrienes.
•Decrease the production of the most damaging form of cholesterol, oxidized LDL cholesterol.
•University of South Australia researchers note that compounds from the olive were found to be antimicrobial against various bacteria...
Here is a popular tangy and sweet recipe from my book The Fat Resistance Diet, an anti-inflammatory dietary program.
Pomegranate Lime Dressing
Pomegranate juice is an outstanding source of flavonoids which help to reduce inflammation.
1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
Juice of 1/2 lime
1 tablespoon unsweetened pomegranate juice
In a jar, shake together the extra virgin olive oil, lime juice, and pomegranate juice. Serves 1.
Leo Galland, M.D.
Practicing physician, author and leader in integrated medicine.
Olive Oil: A Natural Painkiller?
04/26/11
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-galland-md/olive-oil-painkiller-natural-painki_b_850299.html
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
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FeedBack: Fish oil may really be an 'elixir of youth'
Brought to you by the fish industry! ;-) The only true anti-aging and anti-cancer elixir is a 100% RAW FOOD DIET. The body was designed to only eat raw foods, which contain all of the enzymes within them to digest those very foods. When the body eats cooked food, not only do the white blood cells of the body rush to the stomach to attack the "poison" that it doesn't recognize (thus leading to people getting sleepy after eating), but also the body has to use up its own limited supply of enzymes to digest the food that was just ingested... thus leading to aging. Also, cancer cells can not exist in the presence of oxygen... and cooked food has all of the oxygen cooked out of it. Raw food still has its oxygen intact. Anybody selling an "elixir of youth" that is outside of these "raw food" facts is selling you a pile of BS.
Scott Rose
Brought to you by the fish industry! ;-) The only true anti-aging and anti-cancer elixir is a 100% RAW FOOD DIET. The body was designed to only eat raw foods, which contain all of the enzymes within them to digest those very foods. When the body eats cooked food, not only do the white blood cells of the body rush to the stomach to attack the "poison" that it doesn't recognize (thus leading to people getting sleepy after eating), but also the body has to use up its own limited supply of enzymes to digest the food that was just ingested... thus leading to aging. Also, cancer cells can not exist in the presence of oxygen... and cooked food has all of the oxygen cooked out of it. Raw food still has its oxygen intact. Anybody selling an "elixir of youth" that is outside of these "raw food" facts is selling you a pile of BS.
Scott Rose
Friday, January 22, 2010
Fish oil may really be an 'elixir of youth'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7028385/Fish-oil-may-really-be-an-elixir-of-youth.html
Fish oil may really be an 'elixir of youth'
Fish oil may really be an “elixir of youth" because of its effects on our biological ageing, according to a new study.
By Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent
20 Jan 2010
Fatty acids found in fish such as salmon, mackerel or sardines have long been known to protect against conditions like heart disease.
Because of the health benefits official guidelines recommend eating at least two portions of oily fish a week, but many people eat far less.
Now scientists believe that they have uncovered the reason why fish oil is so good for us.
The discovery, made in a group of heart patients, could help confirm many of the claims made about the benefits of the fatty acids, called omega-3 fatty acids.
Researchers found that they help guard a protective ‘cap’ within cells, which helps to determine how long they will live.
Studies have also suggested that fatty acids can increase the chances of survival after suffering a heart attack, reduce the mental decline associated with old age and help prevent changes in the eye that can lead to blindness.
Tests on rats have shown that they live around a third longer if they are given a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids.
"These findings raise the possibility that omega-3 fatty acids may protect against cellular ageing in patients with coronary heart disease," said Dr Ramin Farzaneh-Far from the University of California at San Francisco, writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Cellular ageing is thought to be linked an increased risk of developing conditions like heart disease and cancer.
Scientists are still unsure, however, whether it has any relation to other symptoms of physical ageing, such as wrinkles.
Researchers have found that the acids slow down the rate at which these caps, which protect DNA and keep it organised within a part of the cell, shorten.
Called telomeres, these ‘caps’ become shorter each time cell divides.
Too short and they can leave DNA open to damage, and even eventually cause the cell to die. This rate of shortening varies but the new research has found that it is affected by fish oil.
A study on 608 patients with heart disease shows that those with high levels of omega-3 fatty acids in their diet over five years had longer ‘caps’ than those with low levels.
A higher than average intake of fish oil cut the rate of shortening by 32 per cent, the study found.
June Davison, from the British Heart Foundation, said: "This is an interesting study which may offer a further explanation as to why a dietary intake of omega-3 fats from fish can help to protect your heart.
"It is well established that a dietary intake of omega-3 is good for heart health. Oily fish, such as salmon, mackerel or sardines, is a nutritious source of omega-3."
Fish oil may really be an 'elixir of youth'
Fish oil may really be an “elixir of youth" because of its effects on our biological ageing, according to a new study.
By Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent
20 Jan 2010
Fatty acids found in fish such as salmon, mackerel or sardines have long been known to protect against conditions like heart disease.
Because of the health benefits official guidelines recommend eating at least two portions of oily fish a week, but many people eat far less.
Now scientists believe that they have uncovered the reason why fish oil is so good for us.
The discovery, made in a group of heart patients, could help confirm many of the claims made about the benefits of the fatty acids, called omega-3 fatty acids.
Researchers found that they help guard a protective ‘cap’ within cells, which helps to determine how long they will live.
Studies have also suggested that fatty acids can increase the chances of survival after suffering a heart attack, reduce the mental decline associated with old age and help prevent changes in the eye that can lead to blindness.
Tests on rats have shown that they live around a third longer if they are given a diet high in omega-3 fatty acids.
"These findings raise the possibility that omega-3 fatty acids may protect against cellular ageing in patients with coronary heart disease," said Dr Ramin Farzaneh-Far from the University of California at San Francisco, writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Cellular ageing is thought to be linked an increased risk of developing conditions like heart disease and cancer.
Scientists are still unsure, however, whether it has any relation to other symptoms of physical ageing, such as wrinkles.
Researchers have found that the acids slow down the rate at which these caps, which protect DNA and keep it organised within a part of the cell, shorten.
Called telomeres, these ‘caps’ become shorter each time cell divides.
Too short and they can leave DNA open to damage, and even eventually cause the cell to die. This rate of shortening varies but the new research has found that it is affected by fish oil.
A study on 608 patients with heart disease shows that those with high levels of omega-3 fatty acids in their diet over five years had longer ‘caps’ than those with low levels.
A higher than average intake of fish oil cut the rate of shortening by 32 per cent, the study found.
June Davison, from the British Heart Foundation, said: "This is an interesting study which may offer a further explanation as to why a dietary intake of omega-3 fats from fish can help to protect your heart.
"It is well established that a dietary intake of omega-3 is good for heart health. Oily fish, such as salmon, mackerel or sardines, is a nutritious source of omega-3."
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Fish Oil Supplements Help With Heart Failure
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/31/AR2008083100444.html
Fish Oil Supplements Help With Heart Failure
By Ed Edelson
HealthDay Reporter
Sunday, August 31, 2008
(HealthDay News) -- Daily supplements of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids -- the kind found in fish oil -- reduced deaths and hospitalizations of people with heart failure, an Italian study found.
But a cholesterol-lowering statin drug had no beneficial effect in a parallel heart failure trial.
"This confirms what we've been seeing for a couple of decades in observational studies," Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, said of the fish oil trial. "There is a benefit of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids for heart failure patients."
Both findings were published online Aug. 31 in the journalThe Lancetand presented at a meeting of the European Society of Cardiology, in Munich, Germany.
The omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) study, done by a consortium of 357 Italian cardiology centers, enlisted more than 7,000 people diagnosed with heart failure, which is the progressive loss of the heart's ability to pump blood. Half took a daily capsule containing omega-3 PUFA, the other half took a capsule with a placebo. The death rate in the PUFA group was 27 percent, compared to 29 percent in the placebo group.
That reduction might not seem like much, but it impressed Mozaffarian, who has done his own PUFA studies.
"There are few treatments we have in medicine that affect total mortality in patients," he said. "Just a handful of treatments affect total mortality. Even a small move percentage-wise is a very important effect."
In absolute terms, the Italian researchers reported that 56 people with heart failure would have to take PUFA supplements for about four years to avoid one death. The supplements also reduced hospitalizations, with one less hospitalization or death for every 44 people taking the supplements for four years.
Similar results have been reported in two earlier trials, Mozaffarian said. But they did not have the strict conditions of the Italian study, which were placebo-controlled and "double-blind," meaning that neither the physicians nor the participants knew who was getting the active substance rather than the placebo.
"You always like to have a placebo-controlled trial," he said.
But the positive trial results don't mean that anyone with heart failure can start taking fish oil supplements on their own, said Dr. Gregg Fonarow, professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, who wrote an editorial accompanying the journal report.
"They used a specific formulation, a prescription formulation," Fonarow said. "Heart failure is a very high-risk condition. It is absolutely critical for patients, whether it is a prescription medicine or modification of diet or a supplement, that they consult their physician."
The negative results of the statin trial were a surprise, Fonarow said. It included more than 4,500 people with heart failure, half of whom took the statin rosuvastatin (Crestor), while the other half took a placebo. The death rate was 29 percent in the statin group, 28 percent in the placebo group.
The result doesn't mean that a statin should not be prescribed for someone with heart failure and high cholesterol, Fonarow said. "There were no safety concerns," he said. "The drug was well tolerated. It indicates that heart failure, in and of itself, should not be reason to start a patient on a statin."
The study "doesn't shut the door" on the use of statins for heart failure, Mozaffarian said, "but it closes it partly. Maybe another statin would have a benefit. It definitely makes us question the benefit of statins in heart failure, but it doesn't close the door completely."
Another report in the same issue of the journal that was led by British cardiologists described a trial of the drug ivabradine, which reduces the heart rate, in people with coronary artery disease and an unusually fast heart rate. The drug reduced deaths and hospitalizations significantly, the researchers said.
More information
Learn more about heart failure and its treatment from the American Heart Association.
SOURCES: Dariush Mozaffarian, M.D., associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston; Gregg Fonarow, M.D., professor of cardiovascular medicine, University of California, Los Angeles; Aug. 31, 2008, European Society of Cardiology meeting, Munich, Germany; Aug. 31, 2008, The Lancet, online
Fish Oil Supplements Help With Heart Failure
By Ed Edelson
HealthDay Reporter
Sunday, August 31, 2008
(HealthDay News) -- Daily supplements of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids -- the kind found in fish oil -- reduced deaths and hospitalizations of people with heart failure, an Italian study found.
But a cholesterol-lowering statin drug had no beneficial effect in a parallel heart failure trial.
"This confirms what we've been seeing for a couple of decades in observational studies," Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, said of the fish oil trial. "There is a benefit of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids for heart failure patients."
Both findings were published online Aug. 31 in the journalThe Lancetand presented at a meeting of the European Society of Cardiology, in Munich, Germany.
The omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) study, done by a consortium of 357 Italian cardiology centers, enlisted more than 7,000 people diagnosed with heart failure, which is the progressive loss of the heart's ability to pump blood. Half took a daily capsule containing omega-3 PUFA, the other half took a capsule with a placebo. The death rate in the PUFA group was 27 percent, compared to 29 percent in the placebo group.
That reduction might not seem like much, but it impressed Mozaffarian, who has done his own PUFA studies.
"There are few treatments we have in medicine that affect total mortality in patients," he said. "Just a handful of treatments affect total mortality. Even a small move percentage-wise is a very important effect."
In absolute terms, the Italian researchers reported that 56 people with heart failure would have to take PUFA supplements for about four years to avoid one death. The supplements also reduced hospitalizations, with one less hospitalization or death for every 44 people taking the supplements for four years.
Similar results have been reported in two earlier trials, Mozaffarian said. But they did not have the strict conditions of the Italian study, which were placebo-controlled and "double-blind," meaning that neither the physicians nor the participants knew who was getting the active substance rather than the placebo.
"You always like to have a placebo-controlled trial," he said.
But the positive trial results don't mean that anyone with heart failure can start taking fish oil supplements on their own, said Dr. Gregg Fonarow, professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, who wrote an editorial accompanying the journal report.
"They used a specific formulation, a prescription formulation," Fonarow said. "Heart failure is a very high-risk condition. It is absolutely critical for patients, whether it is a prescription medicine or modification of diet or a supplement, that they consult their physician."
The negative results of the statin trial were a surprise, Fonarow said. It included more than 4,500 people with heart failure, half of whom took the statin rosuvastatin (Crestor), while the other half took a placebo. The death rate was 29 percent in the statin group, 28 percent in the placebo group.
The result doesn't mean that a statin should not be prescribed for someone with heart failure and high cholesterol, Fonarow said. "There were no safety concerns," he said. "The drug was well tolerated. It indicates that heart failure, in and of itself, should not be reason to start a patient on a statin."
The study "doesn't shut the door" on the use of statins for heart failure, Mozaffarian said, "but it closes it partly. Maybe another statin would have a benefit. It definitely makes us question the benefit of statins in heart failure, but it doesn't close the door completely."
Another report in the same issue of the journal that was led by British cardiologists described a trial of the drug ivabradine, which reduces the heart rate, in people with coronary artery disease and an unusually fast heart rate. The drug reduced deaths and hospitalizations significantly, the researchers said.
More information
Learn more about heart failure and its treatment from the American Heart Association.
SOURCES: Dariush Mozaffarian, M.D., associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston; Gregg Fonarow, M.D., professor of cardiovascular medicine, University of California, Los Angeles; Aug. 31, 2008, European Society of Cardiology meeting, Munich, Germany; Aug. 31, 2008, The Lancet, online
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