Meg-Epa-Caps

1000 mg... Essential Fatty Acids... Give Your Body the EFAs it can't produce on its own!

Important For...Regulation of blood pressure, heart function, gastrointestinal function, kidney function, blood clotting, nerve transmission  and steroid production.

Meg-Epa-Caps-1000 mg 

Essential Fatty Acids Are Essential ....

While saturated fats have gotten a bad reputation—and rightly so—not all fats are bad. Certain unsaturated fats called essential fatty acids (EFAs) are vital to the functioning of your body. The membranes of every one of your cells are made of fatty acids. When there is a deficiency of EFAs in your diet, your cells must use other fats, such as saturated fats or trans fatty acids. Cell membranes made with these other fats are more rigid and less efficient at letting nutrients enter, which contributes to many health problems.

EFAs are also precursors to prostaglandins, hormone-like substances that are important to the regulation of blood pressure, heart function, gastrointestinal function, kidney function, blood clotting, nerve transmission, steroid production and hormone synthesis.

EFAs are made up of omega-3 (alpha-linoleic acid or LNA) fatty acids. Because your body can’t manufacture these fatty acids, it is important to supplement your diet with EFAs. This is especially true of omega-3 fatty acids, because we eat so few natural sources of omega-3 fats—cold-water fish oils and flax seed oil. Omega-3 oil supplements can reduce the incidence of high cholesterol, stroke, heart attack, angina, high blood pressure, rheumatoid arthritis and cancer.

By substantially increasing your intake of essential fatty acids, you can get a much more favourable ratio of polyunsaturated fats to saturated fats. This can have long-lasting and often dramatic health benefits. Fish and flax seed oils are an important source of omega-3 fatty acids—eicosapentanoic acid (EPA) and dodecahexanoic acid (DHA).

For healthy adults, 1,000 mg of fish oil is recommended (with 180 mg EPA and 120 mg DHA) omega-3 fatty acids.

If you have heart disease or lipid disorders or are diabetic, discuss EFAs with your physician before taking them.