Health - Omega-3 and Eicosanoids
(ChiaCorp, december 14, 2007)
Besides its value in cell membranes, Omega-3 fatty acids play an important role in the adjustment of metabolic processes.
Eicosainods are hormones of local action. They regulate tissue processes, rising or lowering according to metabolic action needs at cell levels. They were just discovered because they arise at tissue level and not in a specific gland, as it happens with the pancreas or adrenals . There, they develop and act.
Eicosainods are totally formed by Omega- 3 and 6 fatty acids and appear in pairs: one increases and the other diminishes a determine body function, regulating it. When one of them is in deficit in the diet, many of chronic illnesses related today to the unbalance in the O-6 and 3 contribution, are produced in the body.
High levels of Omega-6 tend to raise the risk of inflammatory and self-inmune diseases like arthritis, lupus, psoriasis,ulcerating colitis, osteoporosis, asthma, and Alzheimer, and to make it difficult to be controlled.
