There can’t be many people left in the world who haven’t heard something about omega 3 fats (fatty acids).
But did you know omega 3’s are a family of fatty acids, with eight members of the family?
a bit about omega 3 fatty acids…
If you eat sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, flaxseeds, or walnuts, you’ll be getting an omega 3 fat called alpha linolenic acid, or ALA for short. It’s an essential fat your body can’t make, so you need to get it in your food. Or in a supplement.
In our bodies ALA is converted eventually to an omega 3 fatty acid called docosahexaenoic acid (usually abbreviated to DHA). Most people have seen the letters DHA.
Each one of the steps between ALA and DHA produces a separate omega 3 fatty acid. There are eight of them in total. Every one has its own important job to do, as well as acting in unison with the other family members.
Unfortunately, the steps are easily disrupted by everyday events – a nasty cold, or stress, for example – so people often aren’t producing enough of the individual family members. Also, making matters worse, is the relative absence of omega-3-rich items from average food choices.
That’s where GNLD’s Omega 3 Salmon Oil Plus comes in… it makes sure you have a supply of the whole omega 3 family you need for optimum health. If you want to read about this unique supplement, you can get the pdf here (620 KB)
What do omega 3’s do?
It’s a very long list! Here are some of the things omega 3’s do for us…
- they form part of the structure of all our cell membranes, helping to keep them soft and supple
- they’re involved in the production of sex hormones
- they’re necessary for making hormone-like substances called prostaglandins that control important processes like blood clotting, blood fat levels, inflammation, skin integrity…
- they help control the body’s water balance
- they’re crucial for brain, nerve, and eye function
Who says we need omega 3’s?
Most countries around the world have Associations dedicated to education and prevention of specific diseases. Diseases like heart disease, diabetes, cancer, obesity, and arthritis. And the Associations all have similar advice about staying healthy, including… eat at least 2 good portions of oily fish every week. That recommendation is made because all the Associations know the importance of a regular intake of omega 3 fatty acids.
Can you put your hand on your heart (or your knee joints!) and swear you eat oily fish twice a week, every week, every year?
You can? Fantastic!
Sadly, you’re in the minority. Most adults choose not to eat oily fish at all. And if they don’t eat oily fish, their children don’t eat oily fish.
How about pollution concerns?
Even if you do eat oily fish twice a week, you may justifiably have concerns about possible contamination. For example, fish living near the mouth of any large river flowing into the sea, are going to be exposed to an assortment of chemicals from all the factories, farms, and homes upstream.
And it’s not just around estuaries. A few years ago, a Norwegian study of fish in the Arctic regions showed the presence of chemicals such as the widely-used fire retardant, polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE), and other persistent organic pollutants (POP’s).
Because these industrial pollutants are fat soluble, they’re stored in the fish, and then in the animals that eat the fish… including us! They’re thought to have adverse effects on the glandular systems of both animals and humans.
The study is just one of many studies showing ocean pollution and contamination of fish. We can be sure the situation hasn’t improved since the study was completed in 2004! If you want to read the Norwegian study, you can get it here (pdf 194 KB).
Possible contamination of fish is why expectant mothers are often advised to limit their fish consumption to one serving a week. But moms-to-be have the highest dietary need of omega 3 fatty acids to ensure proper eye, nerve, and brain development of their babies.
There’s some specific info about the omega 3 requirements of moms-to-be in the awareness publication of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in the UK, called ‘You and Your Family’. Click here to read it online.
How can we get the omega 3’s we need, without the risk of pollutants?
GNLD Omega 3 Salmon Oil Plus
When it was released in 2006, GNLD’s technology allowed them to test their Omega 3 Salmon Oil Plus for an industry-leading 160 possible contaminants.The acceptable tolerance level was set at zero… another industry leading number! Since then, GNLD has improved its unique technology to such an extent, that they’re now able to test for over 300 possible contaminants! And the tolerance level is still zero.
So you can be absolutely sure you’re getting all the pure goodness of the whole omega 3 family, and none of the stuff you don’t want. And there’s no hidden vitamin A, or vitamin D, either.
GNLD Omega 3 Salmon Oil Plus provides all 8 members of the omega 3 family
Every 3-capsule serving of Omega 3 Salmon Oil Plus is guaranteed to deliver a total of 1070 mg of the whole omega 3 family, comprising 460 mg EPA, 480 mg DHA, 50 mg DPA, and 80 mg of the other (mixed) omega 3 fatty acids.
GNLD Omega 3 Salmon Oil Plus is a truly unique product. It’s the first, and still the only supplement of its kind to provide pure, standardised amounts of all eight members of the omega 3 family involved in human nutrition.
Benefits of GNLD Omega 3 Salmon Oil Plus
A recent study with 31 healthy adult volunteers – 16 women and 15 men, whose ages ranged from 35 to 65 – was presented (by invitation) at a meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in 2008. The study looked at the effects of supplementation with 3 capsules a day of GNLD’s Omega 3 Salmon Oil Plus, over a period of just 8 weeks.
Studies elsewhere have been done with larger doses over a longer period, with people who already have health challenges.
GNLD wanted to see if Salmon Oil Plus would have any beneficial protection for healthy people, in a short period of time, using a small amount.
The clinical trial was conducted with the direction and guidance of Dr Arianna Carughi, who is a Stanford Fellow and member of GNLD’s Scientific Advisory Board. However, all blood samples at the start, after 4 weeks, and after 8 weeks were collected, analysed and reviewed by independent experts, to ensure no company bias.
Here’s a description of the health benefits they found.
(Click here if you want to skip to just the summary of benefits)
lowered triglycerides…
The level of triglycerides – a type of fat in the blood – gives a good idea of the risk of developing cardiovascular disease. In general, the lower the amount of triglycerides, the lower the risk of developing heart disease.
Even those people in the study, who started with triglycerides in the range normally considered safe, experienced an average reduction of 17%. One person’s blood triglycerides, which were found to be unexpectedly high at the start (436 mg/dL), dropped to 210 mg/dL in just 8 weeks… a whopping 52% improvement!
improved omega 3-to-omega 6 ratios…
The amount of omega 3 fatty acids compared with the amount of omega 6 fatty acids in cell walls, is a further indicator of the risk to cardiovascular health. Supplementation with Omega 3 Salmon Oil Plus produced a 43% improvement in the omega 3-to-omega 6 ratio. That’s a really big heart health benefit!
raised cardio-protective omega 3 index…
Three recent population studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, showed a direct relationship between the omega 3 index and cardiac arrest. The higher the index, the lower the risk of a your heart stopping.
Omega 3 Salmon Oil Plus supplementation resulted in a rapid rise of 38% in this important omega 3 index. And of course, the significant rise means a corresponding fall in the risk of sudden death from heart failure.
proven anti-inflammatory benefits…
The effects of low-level (or silent) inflammation over a long period of time have been directly implicated in the epidemic of chronic disease that is seen around the world. By the way, inflammation is also one of the recognised driving forces of the ageing process.
Whether you’ve got silent inflammation or not, depends on the balance between omega 3 fatty acids and another substance, called arachidonic acid. Both are normally present in the membranes of our cells, in balance with each other. However, if there’s much more arachidonic acid than omega 3 fatty acid, the balance is tipped towards inflammation, with a resultant increase in disease risk.
And you’ll also look older than you really are!
Omega 3 Salmon Oil was able to displace arachidonic acid from cell membranes by 9.6% in just 8 weeks. Tipping the scales like this in favour of reduced inflammation means a healthier life, with fewer wrinkles!
lowered inflammatory index…
Inflammatory index is becoming an increasingly important means of assessing the risk of developing chronic diseases. It’s determined from a series of medical tests, analyses, and calculations. The higher the number, the greater the risk of disease.
All the volunteers in GNLD’s study were considered healthy, with an average inflammatory index of 2,5.
However, after only 4 weeks of supplementation with Omega 3 Salmon Oil Plus, the average value dropped by 60% to 1,0.
And then it dropped even further to 0,8 at the 8-week point.
This represents a phenomenal 68% reduction in the inflammatory index, meaning a huge reduction in the chance of developing chronic diseases.
scale of protection…
After years of investigating the relationship between fatty acid levels and cardiovascular disease, experts have established a scale of protection based on the omega 3 index. The scale has values between 0% and 10%.
Results from seven large studies of cardiovascular disease have shown that the zone of greatest benefit is in the range between 6.5% and 9.5%.
And it was also shown the omega 3 index doesn’t have to change much to have enormous protection benefits. A small increase in the omega 3 index, producing an increase from 6.5% to 8.5% in the scale of protection, equated to a whopping 70% reduction in the risk of fatal heart attack.
Data from GNLD’s Omega 3 Salmon Oil Plus study showed that after only 8 weeks of supplementation, the scale of protection rose from 6.24% to 8.5%. That’s a rise that means not only a huge increase in heart protection, but it’s also in the zone of greatest benefit, too.
This recent study of GNLD’s unique Omega 3 Salmon Oil Plus supplement confirmed…
- it’s readily absorbed from the intestines
- it’s utilised by the body
- it reduces significantly the risk factors of cardiovascular disease
- it lowers the amount of inflammation by restoring the fatty acid balance in the cells
- it reduces the risk of developing inflammatory conditions, like heart disease and joint degeneration
There’s no doubt it. GNLD’s Omega 3 Salmon Oil Plus supplement, taken regularly every day, will improve almost every part of you!
Visit GNLD’s new Omega 3 Salmon Oil Plus website if you’d like lots more info here.
Or if you’ve already made up your mind you need it, please read on…
What’s it cost?
A pot of 90 capsules costs R311 (suggested retail price).
Delivery in South Africa...
We’ll pack and post it to you for R35, Post Office counter-to-counter service, with tracking number.
Or we can arrange for GNLD to courier it to your door for only R50… that’s just R15 more than by post, and you don’t have to go and collect it from your nearest Post Office.
Special offers…
Order two pots and get…
- 50% rebate on the courier delivery (pay R25 instead of R50).
Order a six-pack and get…
- 100% rebate on the courier delivery (pay nothing for delivery)
- your own GNLD starter kit with membership for 12 months. Then you’ll be able to buy any number of products you want from all of GNLD’s ranges, at wholesale price, direct from GNLD, for a whole year.
How to get yours?
We’re still busy with the online shopping set-up, so please order from us by phone (031-765-1014), fax (086-518-9915), sms/cell (083-534-1458), or email.
