Guest guest Posted August 8, 2002 Report Share Posted August 8, 2002 In his book " The Age Free Zone, " Dr. Barry Sears points out that too much insulin in your system--resulting from eating too many calories or the wrong ratio or kinds of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats--can reduce your aerobic capacity. It does this is three basic ways. First it produces too many bronchoconstrictors, which narrow our airways. Second, it constricts the capillaries around our lung tissue, which reduces oxygen flow to the cells. And third, it reduces the flexibility of our red blood cells, thus making it more difficult for them to carry oxygen to where it is needed. If you are truly interested in improving your aerobic capacity, therefore, you will need to look at what and how much you eat and begin making any necessary adjustments. Sears spells out one possible approach to this is his many books. In his new book, " The Omega RX Zone " , Dr. Sears discusses how high- dose fish oil may be able to help with COPD (including asthma, bronchitis, and emphysema), as well as numerous other health problems, including arthritis, high blood pressure, depression, gastrointestinal probmes, heart disease, and many more. Anyone with these problems may well benefit from reading his new book and starting on a high-dose fish oil program. He suggests a variety of lab tests that you can take both before and after starting a high- dose fish-oil program to verify the changes in your blood chemistry. Sears maintains, however, that the fish oils you find in health food stores are not potent and pure enough (they contain too many saturated fats and other substances) to be used in the very high doses (often five grams and more a day) required for such problems, and has therefore developed his own " pharmaceutical grade " brand using technology only recently available. Each gram of this fish oil contains 600 mg of long-chain fatty acids (twice the amount that you will find in health-food-grade fish oil capsules). It contains 400 mg of EPA and 200 mg of DHA. Sears says that this is the most effective ratio of EPA to DHA and is virtually the same ratio as that used in all scientific studies conducted with pharmaceutical-grade fish oil reporting clinical benefits. You can check out the Internet to see what brands of pharmaceutical fish oil exist (to be pharmaceutical grade, each gram of fish oil should contain a total of at least 600 mg of EPA and DHA). Sears maintains in his book, though, that he knows of only one other brand besides his own that is pharmaceutical grade; it comes from Omega Natural Health (www.omegabrite.com). According to Sears, this brand does not, however, offer the 2/1 ratio of EPA to DHA found the " pharmaceutical grade " scientific studies that have been done. You can learn more about the Sears Labs Omega RX formula (pharmaceutical grade fish oil) by visiting Sears Labs on the web at http://www.searslabs.com/authenticbreathing Based on my own remarkable experiences with the Sears Labs fish oil, I have recently become affiliated with Sears Labs and wholeheartedly recommend this fish oil for anyone who is interested in both better breathing and better health. With my best wishes to all, Dennis Lewis http://www.authentic-breathing.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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