Hix3r
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 Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:44 am Post subject: Some info regarding fish oil |
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I can only guess here, because I haven't read the article. Anyway probably they were referring to unsaturated fat, oil.
In fish oil probably there is a high percentage of unsaturated fatty acids, which means it is a long chain of carbon-carbon bonds and several bonds are double bonds.
Why is it so great? Well a double bond is not that stable. A particle with reaction capability easily could break it, therefore attaching itself to the chain. So it breaks the double bond but forms a new bond with one of the carbon atoms, and bonds with the fat, oil.
In the human body during the process where we transform glucose into carbon-dioxide and water, several small particles with high reaction capability is formed. But the cell can't neutralize every one of them, so they bind tho whatever they meet first, and the proteins of a cell are very sensitive to anything because if their 3D structure is disturbed they are not functioning properly. Imagine if a particle goes rampaging in your cell. It even makes its way into the nucleus and goes playing with the DNA, therefore killing or mutating the cell.
But its a natural way, several scientists think that aging has several connections to these small particles systematically destroying the cells of the body throughout the years. So for the better if you eat more unsaturated fat, oil, the particles will more likely bond to these, and not to proteins, DNA, therefore protecting the cell. Also unsaturated fat can form layers on the walls of veins, arteries, thus making its diameter smaller, raising blood pressure. Now the handymen of the body (macrophages etc.) can't really "grab" these unsaturated fat molecules because they don't have any place they can bond to, every bond is a single bond, and a lot of energy is required to break a single bond.
Anyway this is how I think it works, but would be nice if you could tel more about the article, cause they could have referred to vitamins, which also help to keep these small highly reactive molecules from doing harm, or much more things.
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