Fish Oil: Omega 3 Fish Oil Helps Protect Your Skin

Did you know omega 3 fish oil is good for your skin? That’s right! It helps slow down the aging process.

I don’t mean you should start rubbing fish oil on your face. That might help slow down your social life. But if you want healthy, younger looking skin, you should consider making omega 3 fish oil supplements part of your daily skin program.

Why? Because fish oil supplements have been shown to help you look younger by protecting and moisturizing your skin.

Omega 3 fish oil, nature’s most potent and most effective anti-inflammatory agent, has been found to inhibit the chemical process that take place when your skin is exposed to damaging external forces like sun, wind and pollutants.

Your skin is your only organ that’s exposed to the elements and from the moment you’re born you’re under attack. But new evidence shows fish oil supplements can help make your skin more resistant to sunburn and other environmental forces. Fish oil has also been, found to improve skin elasticity and tone and help to prevent saggy skin and wrinkles.

When skin is exposed to excess sunlight abnormal elastin production causes the skin to stretch and collagen fibers to break down prematurely. Your body then naturally produces specific enzymes (metalloproteinases or MMPS) to repair the damage. The problem is this process is not very efficient and often breaks down entirely with added sun exposure.

But a recent study, published in the Journal for Lipid Research,
discovered omega 3 EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) fatty acids inhibited overproduction of MMPS and significantly reduced skin damage. In other words, fish oil supplementation apparently makes getting sunburn a lot more difficult. The authors of the study concluded omega 3 EPA is an effective prevention and treatment for premature skin ageing due to excessive ultra violet radiation from the sun.

And that’s very good news about fish oil, since a million new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed each year. And that’s not even counting the many millions of people, both women and men, who would benefit from omega 3 fish oil by looking as young as they can for as long as they can.

By the way, If you want more proof of the importance of fish oil omega 3 fatty acids to healthy skin, consider the fact that the first symptoms of omega 3 deficiency are dry and flaky skin, hard and cracked skin, eczema, psoriasis and acne.

So if you want to look and feel your best, start taking a good quality fish oil supplement A.S.A.P.

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