Omega-3, The New Superhero!

Title: 10 Reasons Every Lifter, Runner And Athlete Needs Omega-3S

Author: K. Aleisha Fetters

Link: http://www.mensfitness.com/nutrition/supplements/10-reasons-every-lifter-runner-and-athlete-needs-omega-3s-0

Summary: Overall, Omega-3 can also increase your recovery speed, increase your muscle growth over night, increase your reaction time, reduce muscle soreness, reduce injuries, and possibly achieve PR's faster than your normal pace (better sports performance). Specifically, muscles tear in your body and the Omega-3 specializes in repairing these tears, therefore, allowing a quicker recovery. After excercising, your body transforms the consumed protein into proteins for your muscles. That process is called protein synthesis; which is increased with Omega-3. Injuries are also prevented by decreasing the tissue degrading in your body therefore boosting the blood and oxygen flowing into your muscles. Not only does do these fatty acids boost your athletic performance, but they also maintain keeping the important organs in your body healthy. The human body cannot produce Omega-3's so we must rely on our diet. There are three types of Omega-3 fatty acids: EPA, DHA, and ALA. EPA and DHA are the chemically long chained fatty acids that you find from fish. ALA are short chained fatty acids that you find in avocados and nuts. While all these benefits may seem too god to be true, our body can only burn through DHA, so the other two fatty acids must be converted into DHA before use. This process in our body is inefficient because the conversion only yields less than 2% of how much the body started to react with.

Connection Summary: This article touched basis in the introduction to how there is already scientifically proven heart benefits from taking Omega-3. Many of us have also done some researches on how these fatty acids increase muscle strength and prevent injuries to multiple parts of the body. My first article specifically talked about how Omega-3 directly benefits the heart and its muscles. There seems to be a strong tie between the fatty acids and muscles in our body. And many other articles specifically focused on the DHA fatty acid because this demonstrates the most healing power out of all the other Omega-3 fatty acids.