NewsTarget: Flax for brain health

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The food you eat really does make a huge difference in your mood,

cognitive function and mental health. In today's feature story, we

explore how eating flaxseed and flax oil can prevent or even help

reverse mental illness and mental disorders:

http://www.newstarget.com/017048.html

 

Sambucol shown to fight bird flu

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Also, here's some timely news about an antiviral supplement (Sambucol,

which is made from elderberries) that has now been shown to kill the

bird flu virus in cell cultures. I named this product in my bird flu

book as a theoretical defense against avian influenza. Note, however,

that this research was not done in humans, so there's no proof yet

that Sambucol kills H5N1 in infected humans:

 

http://www.nutraingredients.com/news/ng.asp?n=65394-razei-bar-sambucol-bird-flu

 

 

- Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

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Flax oil isn't so great. Got your attention? Thought so.

 

Here's a summary from essential fatty acids expert Dr. Floyd

Chilton's book Inflammation Nation, that explains the details of

the inflammatory properties of oils and the essential fatty acids

in them.

 

Linoleic LA in flax oil is an omega-6 pro-inflammatory oil;

alpha-linolenic ALA is a " supposed " anti-inflammatory oil.

Here's a chart that shows the exact fatty acid components of

other common food oils:

http://members.shaw.ca/duncancrow/OilAnalysis.gif

 

The " supposed " anti-inflammatory component in flax oil, linolenic

acid ALA, can be converted only in tiny amounts to EPA and DHA

anti-inflammatory oils. Aside from this tiny conversion, science

has not established a function for the ALA; on the contrary,

science tells us it is unnecessary. Case in point, if mother's

milk contains undetectable ALA, but does have EPA/DHA the breast

fed baby survives; obviously the ALA is undetectably important,

arguably not essential at all despite the fast growth of the

baby.

 

 

The ALA component of flax oil is " commonly thought to be " a

beneficial precursor to EPA and DHA that can replace fish oil.

But because conversion of the ALA to EPA and DHA occurs in very

tiny amounts, ALA-containing foods are inadequate EPA/DHA

providers, especially if one has an imbalance.

 

 

To add to this low conversion problem, the diet most North

Americans have, high in omega-6 LA oil but low in EPA/DHA,

impairs the tiny amount of conversion of ALA to EPA/DHA that may

otherwise occur by competing for the conversion enzyme.

 

That's why we need to supplement EPA and DHA or fish oil

containing them and we don't need the flax oil.

 

Duncan