Fish oil (魚油) and seal oil (海豹油)

Did you know, Greenland Eskimos have a low chance of having heart disease and cancer compared with other Western populations? This fact is quite interesting, when you think about all the high-fat contents of their daily diet, such as seal and whale.
Medical researches have shown beneficiary affects with cardiovascular and thrombotic diseases when your diet is complemented with sources of "n-3 PUFA", meaning seal oil, cod liver oil and whale oil.

Oils from fish and seal are quite similar in their fatty acid composition and their affects on health, although fish oils are more readily available for extraction. Seal oils also have similar EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DPA (docosapentaenoic acid) properties as fish oils. DPA was shown to have the effects of stimulating the repair of blood vessels and may have attribtued to reducing female coronary artery diseases.

One of the advantage of seal oil over fish oil is the resistance from oxidation. The n-3 PUFA fatty acid in fish and mammal oils are known to have a high rate of auto-oxidation, naturally producing chemically toxic substances that can cause cancer in humans.

The other advantage of seal oil is related to the structure of the fatty acid, in which fish oil and seal oil are esterified and consumed differently inside the body, resulting in higher n-3 PUFA levels in the erythrocyte membrane and neuronal tissue.

Cordyceps Concentrated General & Nerve Tonic (冬蟲夏草濃縮健腦補腎丸)

• Functions: It nourishes the liver and kidneys, tranquilizing the mind by nourishing the heart, tonify 'Qi' and strengthen the spleen.

• Indications: Insufficiency of Yin-blood of heart, liver and kidney, or physical exhaustion, dizziness, headache, sleeplessness, absentmindedness as a result of deficiency of 'Qi' and 'Yin'.

• Dosage: For adult, take 2 -3 capsules with warm water after meal, 2 - 3 times a day. For children reduce dosage properly or to be used only in accordance with the instructions of a registered Chinese Medicine Practitioner or Chinese Medicine Pharmacist.

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Improve blood flow with Ginkgo (銀杏)

Looks like ginkgo biloba, the magical “memory pill”, can do more than just improving memory. A recent study indicates that not only can ginkgo help better pumping blood to the brain, it also improves blood flow in patients with coronary artery disease.

Scientists at China’s Hebei Medical University tested effects of Ginkgo biloba extract on vascular blood flow in patients with coronary artery disease.

According to the researchers, ginkgo biloba extract (GBE) has well-documented cardioprotective effects on coronary flow and positive effects on vasodilation through endothelium-derived nitric oxide in experimental animals. The endothelium (inner lining) of blood vessels use nitric oxide to signal the surrounding smooth muscle to relax, thus resulting in vasodilation and increasing blood flow.

In this study, 80 patients with coronary artery disease were randomly assigned to either GBE or saline (control) groups.

Results showed that GBE significantly increased the left anterior descending coronary artery blood flow by up to about 10%. The treatment group also saw a jump in endothelium-dependent brachial artery flow-mediated dilation by as high as 69.75%.

Coronary arteries deliver blood to the heart muscle. Any coronary artery disorder or disease can have serious implications by reducing the flow of oxygen and nutrients to the heart, which may lead to a heart attack and possibly death. By improving artery blood flow, ginkgo biloba extract may serve an important role of preventing complications in patients with coronary artery disease.