Fish Oil and Omega 3 Health Benefits Fish Oil: Psoriasis Suffers Get Help From Fish Oil
Over the last twenty years or so, there have been several well-designed studies showing fish oil omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) can significantly reduce the itching, rash and scaling of psoriasis, as well as decrease the area of skin affected.
Omega 3 PUFAs are nature’s most potent anti-inflammatory agents. That’s why they’re so effective against arthritis, bursitis, colitis and y other inflammatory condition ending in “-itis.” And that’s good news for people afflicted with psoriasis.
Why? Because psoriasis is a life-long, non-contagious inflammatory skin disease. Plaque psoriasis is the most common form. It’s characterized by patches of skin that become inflamed and covered itchy white scale. Nearly 8 million people in the States are affected with this painful and often embarrassing disease.
Psoriasis varies greatly between one person and another. Some patients have few limited lesions. While others are so severely affected it spreads over large areas of skin. For some, in fact, it can become extremely serious and develop into psoriatic arthritis causing severe joint pain, stiffness and swelling.
And, like I said, eating more fatty fish such as salmon, sardines, herring or tongol tuna or taking a good quality daily fish oil supplement containing a combined one gram or more of omega 3 DHA and EPA fatty acids can help provide relief for the discomfort of psoriasis rash and itching.
But, amazingly, fish oil not only works as a supplement. It also works if you squeeze it out of a capsule and rub it on your itchy skin. That’s the conclusion of a team of researchers at the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Medicine in Argentina. (Clinical and Experimentology Dermatology, Vol. 17: 159-62)
Again, fish fish fish. If the fish is farm raised, it is fed cereal. Animals fed cereal grains lose their omega3. Cattle in the US are fed cereal grains, so they lose their omega3. If the cattle, or the fish, eat grean leafy plant food or algae, they have omega3. There's nothing special about fish, except that they used to eat algae, until we started farm raising them, then they lost their omega3's just like the cows did. Eat fish or cows that eat grass/algae, and they both have omega3. Are they trying to hide the fact that cereal grains are an unnatural food that harm animals who eat them? I guess so. I guess that's why they never talk about grassfed beef, and the heaping amounts of omega3 it contains.
Over the last twenty years or so, there have been several well-designed studies showing fish oil omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) can significantly reduce the itching, rash and scaling of psoriasis, as well as decrease the area of skin affected.
Omega 3 PUFAs are nature’s most potent anti-inflammatory agents. That’s why they’re so effective against arthritis, bursitis, colitis and y other inflammatory condition ending in “-itis.” And that’s good news for people afflicted with psoriasis.
Why? Because psoriasis is a life-long, non-contagious inflammatory skin disease. Plaque psoriasis is the most common form. It’s characterized by patches of skin that become inflamed and covered itchy white scale. Nearly 8 million people in the States are affected with this painful and often embarrassing disease.
Psoriasis varies greatly between one person and another. Some patients have few limited lesions. While others are so severely affected it spreads over large areas of skin. For some, in fact, it can become extremely serious and develop into psoriatic arthritis causing severe joint pain, stiffness and swelling.
And, like I said, eating more fatty fish such as salmon, sardines, herring or tongol tuna or taking a good quality daily fish oil supplement containing a combined one gram or more of omega 3 DHA and EPA fatty acids can help provide relief for the discomfort of psoriasis rash and itching.
But, amazingly, fish oil not only works as a supplement. It also works if you squeeze it out of a capsule and rub it on your itchy skin. That’s the conclusion of a team of researchers at the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Medicine in Argentina. (Clinical and Experimentology Dermatology, Vol. 17: 159-62)
Again, fish fish fish. If the fish is farm raised, it is fed cereal. Animals fed cereal grains lose their omega3. Cattle in the US are fed cereal grains, so they lose their omega3. If the cattle, or the fish, eat grean leafy plant food or algae, they have omega3. There's nothing special about fish, except that they used to eat algae, until we started farm raising them, then they lost their omega3's just like the cows did. Eat fish or cows that eat grass/algae, and they both have omega3. Are they trying to hide the fact that cereal grains are an unnatural food that harm animals who eat them? I guess so. I guess that's why they never talk about grassfed beef, and the heaping amounts of omega3 it contains.
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