REPOST

Just thought I would like to post this again as I think it would help quite a few folks who might not have seen it before:

I do quite a bit of studying on the chemical workings and nutritional needs of the heart and body and just thought this info might be helpful to some. This is taken from a book titled "Reverse Heart Desease Now" written by a "new cardiologist" named Dr. Stephen T. Sinatra:
"Every cardiologist should be interested in the following benefits of fish oil:

Decreases Lp(a), triglycerides, and blood pressure

Increases HDL

Reduces arterial wall inflammation

Improves endothelial function

Makes blood less stickier and less likely to form clots

Stabilizes and maybe even reverses plaque, and prevents plaque rupture

Soothes heart rate variability, which counteracts arrhythmias

Contributes to the bioenergy of the heart muscle

Fish oil helps control eicosanoids, tiny, hormonelike substances produced by all your cells. these chemicals have a regulatory influence on inflammatory and immune responses, the integrity of blood vessels, and much, much more. Just like cholesterol, some eicosanoids are considered good and others bad.
The good news: you exert a good deal of control over eicosanoids by what you eat. Foods such as partially hydrogenated fats (trans fats ) and refined carbohydrates trigger the production of harmful eicosanoids and promote inflammation. Omaega-3s benefit just about every tissue in the body.
Fish oil is rpeventive and terapeutic for all arrhythmias. Atrial fibrillation patients on fish oil leave the hospital sooner following bypass surgery and are at reduced risk for bypass graft closure. They can walk farther on a treadmill test. And those who are taking nitroglycerin need less of it.
We have prescribed fish oil aggressively to patients for more than a decade. Every patient with plaque gets fish oil. They do better. And it is an incredibly nontoxic substance."

Anyone interested in finding the book, I've found that Amazon.com has paperback copies of it.

Pete

4 Comments

also try krill oil

by karma - 2008-05-13 02:05:40

krill oil should also be considered, my triglycerides were reduced by almost 2/3 rd's , I've been taking salmon/fish oil for all the reasons above., but the most noticeable change has been with krill oil. Every little bit helps. just my 2 cents.

Don't believe everything you read

by ted - 2008-05-13 09:05:02

A study by the Portland Oregon Veterana Affairs Medical Center has shown that fish oil does more harm than good for ICD patients. Those taking fish oil supplements had more episodes of dangerous heart arrhythmias that often precede heart attacks. Just because someone wrote a book, doesn't make it so. Danish studies have also implicated high fish consumption with breast cancer. We are all still learning.

danger

by agneslaney - 2008-05-14 03:05:07

Can anyone tell me if there would be any danger taking fish oil if you are on warfarin as I have to be really careful with certain foods as they affect my warfarin level

fish danger

by Pete K - 2008-05-15 06:05:39

Yes, eating large amounts of large type sea fish can lead to large amounts of mercury content which can be cancer causing amonst other ills. That's why most fish oil supplements are made from small fish which don't have long life spans (anchovies, etc.) so as to not have the heavy mercury content. Fish oil has been proven in many studies to be completely safe (unless having a fish allergy anyway) and to calm heart arrhythmias in many patients.

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