What is Omega 3?
Omega 3 fatty acid – Alpha linoleic acid ALA found in flax seed or linseed is the essential vegetarian
omega 3 fatty acid. Essential means we cannot synthesize ALA in our body.
We must get it from our food or supplement from ALA we can make EPA and DHA in our body. EPA and DHA can also be directly obtained from fish and fish oil. RWNLF provides ALA from linseed in the form of supplement such as soft gel form and in the form of Omega 3 enriched foods – Egg, Milk and Chicken etc.
Why Omega 3?
Our modern diet is very deficient in omega -fatty acid. Increase in severity of several chronic degenerative diseases
such as diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, cancer, mental illness etc is attributed to the low availability of this
crucial essential nutrient in our modern diet. Omega 3 fatty acid is needed for all ages from conception to death.
Omega 3 fatty is must, for expecting mother, for successful full term pregnancy and fetus health, for the child for normal brain growth,
for adult cardio protection, regulating insulin and sugar, for aged eye health, arthritis, cancer, mental health.
How is Omega 3?
There are three main forms of Omega 3 fatty acid. ALA, found in linseed is the essential form of Omega 3 fatty acid. ALA is converted
into long chain fatty acids Eicosopentanoic acid (EPA) and decosahexanoic acid (DHA) in human body.
EPA, primarily anti-inflammatory, forms hundreds of eicosanoids and lipid modulators regulating thousands of reactions within the cellsf.
DHA is an important
component of brain and nervous tissue. ALA, competing with Omega 6 linoleic acid (LA), suppresses inflammatory arachidonic acid formation.
Presently with excessive intake of Omega 6 LA through edible oil, inflammatory pathways are dominant in modern man, leading to unprecedented increase in
chronic degenerative diseases in modern society. So it is important to increase intake of Omega 3 in the form of ALA.
