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supplementing with fish oil

mrdeadly99 Posts: 124 Joined: 2005/09/21	2006/02/06, 02:18 PM i remember reading somewhere (maybe arnolds book) that supplementing with 6g of fish oil a day helps reduce body fat and gain muscle. am i just imagining this, or is it true?
David1201086 Posts: 253 Joined: 2004/06/15	2006/02/07, 05:54 PM Here's an excerpt by John Berardi about fish oil... "Finally, if you've been around the T-mag community for a while you'll know that my favorite fats are those in fish oil. Delarue et al (1996) showed that fish oil supplementation (6g/day added to the diet) dramatically changed the metabolism of fats and carbohydrates. During an OGTT (oral glucose tolerance test - drinking a big 75g whack of liquid sugar and measuring the subjects for 2 hours afterward), the fish oil group burned 27g of fat vs. 20g in the placebo group. The fish oil group also burned 28g or carbs while storing 36g and the placebo group burned 51g of carbs while storing only 14g. In addition, baseline insulin was 30% lower in fish oil group and insulin responses to OGTT were 50% lower in the fish oil group. What this tells us is that fish oil allows the body to burn more fat and store more muscle glycogen, repartitioning fuel away from fat cells toward muscle cells. Since fish oils are polyunsaturated fats, it's important to not only increase fish-oil intake, it's important to shift the ratio of polyunsaturated fat to saturated fat (P/S). Van Marken, Lichtenbelt et al (1997) showed that the polyunsaturated fat to saturated fat ratio is important to metabolic rate. A higher ratio of P/S leads to metabolic increases (22% increase in TEF and 3% increase in daily RMR). "
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2006/02/10, 01:18 PM Omega 3's can help with fat burn. One of many reasons folks cannot burn fat as efficiently as others are high intake of w6's and low intake of w3's. The reason for this may be the membranes which surround each of the body's cells are not functioning in the way they should because their composition is out of balance. In fact, some research is now showing that weight loss was greater on a calorie-restricted diet when a small amount of fish oil was added to the diet, compared to the same diet when olive oil was added instead of the fish oil. -------------- Strength and Honor!
mrdeadly99 Posts: 124 Joined: 2005/09/21	2006/02/10, 02:53 PM thank you david and bb1