SEAL OIL: BEST SOURCE OF OMEGA 3
As Seal Oil has not been available for the past 20 years, substitutes of one description or another have become popular. The most common of these would be fish and flaxseed (Linseed) oil.
Seal Oil is superior to these substitutes for the following reasons:
- Unlike both flaxseed and fish oils, Seal Oil has only traces of Omega 6 and therefore is believed to be the product best suited to immediately and effectively reduce the imbalance. Salmon oil has anywhere from 2 - 5 times the Omega 6 content of Seal Oil. Flaxseed oil has nearly 3 times the Omega 6 content of Seal Oil. If the goal is to restore the balance of Omega 3 vs. Omega 6, why keep adding a lot of Omega 6, such as found in fish and vegetable oils?
- Most fish oils have only two of the three main ingredients of omega 3 (EPA and DHA) while Seal Oil not only has all three (DHA, EPA, and DPA) but they also appear in the same relative proportions as found naturally in the human body.
- Because Seal Oil's chemical structure allows it to more easily be absorbed into the human body, the Omega 3's in Seal Oil enter the blood stream more quickly, than other fish or flaxseed oils, producing more efficient results.
- Flaxseed oil is not a natural long-chain Omega 3. It relies on the body's ability to convert it into omega 3. This only occurs if all the body functions are fully developed and working properly. This transformation not only takes time but it is also difficult to measure the amount, if any, of omega 3 actually being converted. The very young, the aging and those suffering from various ailments may find their bodies unable to convert flaxseed oil to omega 3. Actually, the excess of omega 6 is likely to block the body's ability to convert omega 3's from other fatty acids. When we couple the fact that flaxseed oil contains 3 TIMES more omega 6 than does Seal Oil, with the fact that flaxseed oil is not a natural omega 3, it is difficult to believe that flaxseed oil could effectively reduce the dangerous omega 3 - omega 6 imbalance.
- In their book, "Protein Power," Michael and Mary Eades state, " . . . but taking flax seed oil is kind of like buying crude oil and running it through your home distillery to make gasoline for you car. If that's the only way you can get gasoline, then that's what you have to do. If you can buy the gasoline already distilled, however, it is much more efficient to do that and avoid the hassle of the home distillation process."
- Because Seal oil comes strictly from seal blubber, it is a much purer oil than fish oils which are obtained by grinding, cooking and pressing fish offal, or the whole fish.
- Seal Oil is more stable than fish oil as a long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid
