Fish Oil Benefits
for Athletes: Omega-3 and Sport
By: Ascenta Health
This article
discusses several aspects of athletes' consumption of fatty acids and begins by
explaining the various diets that people have tried throughout the years.
People tend to take far more omega-6 fatty acids than omega-3 fatty acids,
which is not necessary and can actually promote inflammation. Omega-3's improve
performance, reduce muscle damage and soreness, improve heart and lung
function, and combat negative immune effects of intensive training. Fish oil
improves protein metabolism and increases protein synthesis. Fatty acids also
benefit athletes because they have proven to increase muscle strength and
performance. Fish oil also reduces muscle damage to such an extent that it
could replace non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen and
aspirin. Fatty acids help modify blood antioxidant status after exercise to
protect against exercise damage. Omega-3's also strengthen bones because
research has shown that higher red blood cell omega-3 levels may increase bone
mineral density.
Omega-3's improve
heart function by improving the heart's ability to pump blood and deliver
oxygen to muscles which indicates that fish oils may benefit the heart and lung
functioning in athletes with exercise-induced airway constriction.
My other article
about athletes' consumption of fish oils talked about many of these things but
not at such depth. The other article emphasized the ways to consume fish oils
but this article explains why all of the benefits of omega-3's occur. Both
videos discussed the fact that Americans consume far more omega-6s than
necessary and this article explained that this can actually cause inflammation.
Both articles talked about the improved muscle function due to fatty acid
consumption but this article discussed that increased protein synthesis causes
this to occur. This article related to a lot of what we have already invested
but it explained the reasoning behind these benefits more clearly.
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