Krill Oil

Two of the best and yet simple ways to improve your overall health with supplements include:

* Increasing your intake of antioxidants ...
* Increasing your intake of omega-3 oils ...

Krill Oil General Information
Krill oil is full of Omega-3 essential fatty acids, antioxidants and phospholipids. Krill is a shrimp-like ocean invertebrate animal. These small creatures are important organisms of the ocean. They feed baleen whales, mantas, whale sharks and some seals. Another name of Krill is euphausiids. The name Krill comes from the Norwegian word Krill meaning “young fry of fish”. Krill are in the oceans all over the world. Considered keystone species near the bottom of the food chain. In the Southern Ocean there is a species called Antarctic Krill (Euphausia superba). The Krill are also abundant in the Antarctic Ocean and provide food for numerous aquatic animals. The Krill found there are called Neptune Krill. Krill oil is different than fish oil. Krill’s are fish but the oil is a different component.

Antioxidants are your body's #1 way to neutralize free radicals, those harmful metabolic byproducts that damage cells and tissues throughout your body.

Scientific evidence has repeatedly demonstrated that antioxidants are a cornerstone in the promotion of heart health, immune system support, and memory support. Antioxidants also appear to play a role in helping to slow your signs of aging.

You've heard by now about two fats in omega-3 oils that are crucial to your health -- DHA and EPA. These compounds are not only essential to maintaining your health -- scientific research indicates that they may also promote heart health and provide immune system and mood support.

Now in a perfect world, you would be able to get all the omega-3s you need by eating fish. Unfortunately, studies show that eating fish can potentially expose you to a high degree of contamination with industrial pollutants and toxins like mercury, PCBs, heavy metals and radioactive poisons.

In fact, the FDA and EPA have put out health advisories warning against certain fish and shellfish consumption for young children, women who are pregnant or may become pregnant, and nursing mothers.

It is recommended that you take fish oil to enhance your intake of omega-3 fats. And high-quality fish oils are certainly great products, with many important health benefits.

Antarctic Pure Krill Oil is a capsule full of genuine Neptune krill, a marine oil uniquely and synergistically combined antioxidants and omega-3s. It proved itself far superior to previously-recommended fish oils. The key reason genuine Neptune krill is so unique is the natural combination of its three functional nutrients:

* Omega-3 fatty acids, especially EPA and DHA
* Protective phospholipids
* Antioxidants

Although many foods contain antioxidants, today's poor-quality diets are nearly always insufficient in the full range of these beneficial free radical scavengers.

Essential fatty acids (EFAs) include both omega-3 fats (high in the vital compounds EPA and DHA) and omega-6 fats. EFAs cannot be manufactured in your body but are beneficial to normal health and metabolism. Therefore, EFAs must be obtained through your diet.

Although some omega-6 fats are good for your health, the balance of omega-6s to omega-3s is crucial. Unfortunately, most people consume an overabundance of omega-6 fats.

Your ancestors embraced a diet with a healthy balance of approximately equal omega-6 and omega-3 fats. But the current Western diet is far too high in omega-6 fats. The average omega-6 to omega-3 ratio is now closer to 20:1, and in some cases even 50:1. This can keep you from optimal health. Due to this imbalanced ratio, you could likely benefit from more omega-3 fats.

Besides DHA and EPA, this unique marine oil has another "secret weapon" not found in fish oils which explains why it has proven superior...

Unlike fish oils, pure Neptune krill oil carries omega-3s in the form of phospholipids -- liposomes or little packages that deliver the fatty acids directly to your body's cells. Scientific evidence to date has shown that the safest and most effective carriers of EPA and DHA are these phospholipids.

Unfortunately, standard fish oils (and inferior krill oil brands) lack this phospholipid complex. Instead they contain omega-3 fatty acids in the less-beneficial form of free triglycerides.

Why are phospholipids important?

They are the building blocks for your cell membranes, regulating cellular transport by functioning as 'gate-keepers.' In this role, they protect cell membranes from free radical attack. This unique relationship between the phospholipids and omega-3 fatty acids greatly facilitates the passage of the fatty acid molecules through your intestinal wall. This helps you in two ways...

* Makes the omega-3 fats in New and Improved Krill Oil significantly more bioavailable than those in fish oil by allowing EPA and DHA to directly enter your cells.
* Improves your omega-3 to omega-6 ratio.

Another important fact: The most predominant phospholipid in pure Neptune krill oil is phosphatidyl choline, which is partially composed of choline. Numerous studies have demonstrated the importance of choline in brain development, learning and memory. In fact, choline is particularly important for fetal and infant brain development in pregnant and nursing women. Choline is the precursor for the vital neurotransmitter acetylcholine (which sends nerve signals to the brain) and for trimethylglycine, a recognized liver protector.

Further, it also boasts a full complement of necessary antioxidants not seen in fish or cod liver oil...


Giant Whales Tell Their Tiny Health-Boosting Secret

Just what are krill anyway?

Krill are small shrimp or prawn-like creatures that feed the world's most mammoth animals -- the great whales. Toothless great whales gulp down huge quantities of krill to provide the energy they need to fuel their massive bulk. A blue whale eats up to 8,000 pounds of krill each day during feeding season.

These highly intelligent great whales aren't the only animals that depend on krill for their nutritional needs. So do seals, penguins, sea birds, squid and fish.

Tiny krill fuel giant whales...what can they do for you? The hardy Neptune type of krill harvested from harsh Antarctic waters -- the ones that comprise our New and Improved Krill Oil -- are so important they are considered a "keystone species", an organism upon which many Antarctic predators depend.

These semi-translucent crustaceans congregate in dense masses or swarms that can turn the ocean's surface pink or red.

Together with plankton, krill make up the largest biomass on earth...one of the most easily renewable food resources available, an excellent nutritional source from an environmental perspective.

Krill aren't a new source of nutrition either. They've been harvested as a food source for both humans and domesticated animals since the 1800s. Possibly even earlier in Japan where they're considered a delicacy.