Looking for the Best Source of Omega-3? Try Krill Oil
If you're looking for the best possible way to get your daily requirement of omega-3, you may have just found it. There are many ways to get the essential fatty acids that your body needs for optimum health -- eating cold-water fish, flax seeds, and walnuts. But if you've been dissatisfied with these choices, you just might be interested in krill oil.
Krill oil explained
Just what exactly are krill? They are small shrimp or prawn-like creatures. But don't let their size fool you, they feed the world's largest animals -- the great whales. During feeding season, blue whales eat up to 8,000 pounds of krill each day.
Harvested from the Antarctic waters where they swarm in dense masses that sometimes turn the water pink, they are one of the world's largest biomasses on earth and are an easily renewable food resource. This means you get to take advantage of krill oil without worrying about endangering a species.
Krill oil is the oil found naturally in krill and sold as a nutritional supplement for omega-3. In addition to being popular for its high fatty acid content, it is also popular because it contains an antioxidant called astaxanthin. Free radicals cause cancer and premature aging and studies show that antioxidants are what kill the free radicals in your body.
Benefits of krill oil
By taking krill oil, you are getting a double whammy of healthy supplements -- omega-3 and antioxidants. Among other reasons people like krill oil is the fact that it does not cause 'fishy burps' like regular fish oil and doesn't leave an aftertaste.
Krill oil is helpful in fighting high cholesterol levels, PMS, and arthritis. It makes the omega-3 fats more available than those found in fish oil by allowing EPA and DHA to directly enter your cells. It also improves your omega-3 to omega-6 ratio. All this adds up to one healthy supplement.
If you're interested in taking krill oil, you need to remember that people who are allergic to seafood or have bleeding disorders shouldn't take krill oil and, as always, check with your family doctor or caregiver before you take any supplements.
