How Synergy Helps Weight Loss

Posted: March 8th, 2009 | Author: Dr. Bill | No Comments »

I’m getting a little extra work in today since all is quiet around the house. The wife is off somewhere on a mission, and the cats all seem to have taken a snow day. Usually there are at  least one or two crying out for attention, but  it’s almost as if someone issued a sleep command, and they all obeyed. That’s a rare event, let me tell you.

I just finished reading a very interesting article in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published in 2007 that shows a couple of very interesting conclusions.

One conclusion was that study members who took fish oil and did moderate exercise lost weight. They also had increases in muscle mass, and profound changes in cardiac risk factors.

Those who took fish oil and did not exercise did not lose weight, and neither did a group taking sunflower oil.

The weight loss group took between 3 and 6 grams of fish oil per day. Now normally less would suffice for most people, but I suspect the folks in this study had fairly significant weight problems, and would need more than the average bear.

In an article which reviewed the study the author points out something else, which is exactly what I’ve been saying.

1. You get what you pay for. You should get a high potency molecularly distilled pharmaceutical grade fish oil, free of contaminants and PCBs.

2. Your fish oil should not taste fishy, or give you “fish burps.” This is why you should only take fish oil that has an enteric coating. This insures the softgels travel deep into the digestive system before they are released.

3. Flax oil is not a good substitute. You would need to ingest 12 grams of flaxseed oil to get the benefit of two high quality fish oil softgels. And you might just have to spend a lot more time in the water closet than you want to.

If you want to create synergy for weight loss, try enteric coated pharmaceutical grade fish oil, good food, and moderate exercise.

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