Why does my 83-years-young mother take one specific type of fish oil, and how might it be helping her stay healthy and active enough to still drive herself to the grocery store and push a cart as she shops?
While nobody is making any medical claims whatsoever for fish oil, the benefits of fish and its oil containing omega 2 fatty acids are still being praised by groups such as the American Heart Association and even the U.S. White House. Meanwhile it is also being studied by researchers for its potential to possibly help support healthy hearts and healthy blood flow. In fact, one of the main interests of researchers is how heart-friendly Omega-3 fatty acids in fish and their oil might potentially offer some nutritional support against the chance of future blood clots or thrombosis.
More study is needed before medical researchers can make any claim at all regarding how fish and its oil might help prevent blood clots, but it is good to know they are eagerly examining the potential.
The hope is that studies might find out how fish and the oil from fish might have the potential to support healthy blood flow and perhaps help keep the tiny blood platelets flowing smoothly without sticking together and causing blood clots. One doctor told me he believes this is the case, but he doesn’t make any claims, he simply tells his patients that mercury-free fish and/or fish oil are great health foods they should consider adding to their diet.
This potential health benefit is very important to me because I often sit for long periods at a desk, or while traveling in a car or airplane. I don’t want to get any blood clots in my legs from sitting in this cramped position for hours on end.
I try to take breaks and get up and walk around so I stretch my legs and get my blood flowing through my leg veins. I also take a high quality fish oil food supplement because my personal opinion is that it is better to be safe than sorry. The kind I take is very high quality at a low price and I just seem to feel better when I’m taking it than when I’m not. The more you learn about the potential heart-health benefits of healthy fish (without mercury) and the oil from healthy fish, the more you like what you learn. It is one supplement that actually seems to live up to all of the news about it.
Note: These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. Health foods and supplements are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, mitigate or prevent any disease.
In addition, another hoped-for health benefit of Omega-3 fatty acids, and most especially the DHA that are found in fish, is the potential to help support a healthy heart’s normal beating rhythm. This is an important possibility; because heart beat irregularities or arrhythmias are believed to be among the contributing conditions that may sometimes lead to heart attacks. I know that I for one want my heartbeat to be regular and steady as a clock. If eating healthy mercury-free fish and taking a supplement of fish oil can help support healthy heart, then I’m all for it. I asked my doctor and he said it was fine for me. Ask your doctor too, if it is right for you.
The problem is, how can we know that the fish we are eating does not contain mercury and PCB’s and other contaminants? The world’s oceans are pretty polluted now and many of the oily-type of fish do have bad levels of mercury in them. Many doctors warn pregnant women to avoid most fish due to this mercury risk. So many pregnant mothers take a purified fish oil supplement.
Meanwhile, the fish really that the supplement is made from really need to be healthy to begin with. One very healthy fish in particular is the Hoki fish that lives in the beautiful South Pacific ocean, off the leeward coast of New Zealand. This leeward side of the island does not have any shipping lanes and is a quiet island paradise. The fish here are healthy and clean, and so is the oil that is derived from the fish. This is the kind of fish oil supplement I take and that my Grandma of our family takes. See my bio below for more amazing facts about this.
Read on for more eye-opening information about the pure fish oil that my own research has found. And what kind of supplement I give to my 83-years-young mom, who still drives her own car and goes grocery shopping, does gardening, enjoys an active and vital life, etc. She really felt a difference after trying concentrated fish oil sourced from Hoki fish.