Shrimp wing oil for heart health

Already in the middle of the last century, scientists determined the low frequency of heart diseases in Eskimos and explained this by a diet that contains a large amount of fish rich in fat, i.e. unsaturated fatty acids (salmon, tuna). These are omega-3 fatty acids, which have a number of important functions in the body and cannot be produced. Their influence on cardiovascular health has been considered in numerous scientific studies. Most of them confirmed their positive effect on the reduction of various undesirable cardiac events, especially arrhythmias, as well as on the reduction of the "bad" part (triglycerides), and the increase of "good" fats (HDL cholesterol), in the blood of cardiovascular patients and healthy people.

Unos dovoljne količine potrebnih omega-3 masnih kiselina teško je postići prehranom, stoga su razvijeni  lijekovi/dodaci prehani, koji su uključeni i u preporuke Europskog i Američkih kardioloških udruženja za liječenje srčanih bolesnika.

Novija ispitivanja umanjuju efekt omega-3 na  kardiovaskularne bolesti, što se tumači mnogo agresivnijim liječenjem lijekovima za smanjenje masnoće (statini), kao i promjenama u prehrani (konzumacija više ribe). Primjećena je veća korist od ovih lijekova/dodataka prehrani upravo u grupi osoba koje nisu liječene drugim lijekovima.

Omega 3 capsules differ in terms of content and amount of ingredients. Recently, the benefit of omega-3 produced from Atlantic shrimp ("krill") has been especially highlighted.Its advantages are a large amount of omega-3 fatty acids in the most favorable form for the body, additional antioxidant astaxanthin, and a lower presence of heavy metals that are found in increasing quantities in fish, as well as its availability. Further, better planned research on the impact of omega-3 fatty acids on cardiovascular diseases is needed, which will accurately determine the benefit of these substances in all categories of patients, as well as in the healthy population.

Generalna je preporuka prehrana bogata omega-3 masnim kiselinama, a srčanim bolesnicima i osobama  koje ne konzumiraju dovoljno masne ribe svakako se preporuča dodatak prehrani koji sadrži najbolju kombinaciju i dovoljnu količinu omega-3 masnih kiselina.