KRILL OIL:
An Omega-3 Powerhouse
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Omega-3 fatty acids are known to decrease triglyceride levels and blood pressure, reduce inflammatory markers, improve endothelial function, and prevent blood from clogging too easily. Fish oil has been the standard bearer for some time, but krill oil has recently become available and it merits serious consideration as it has a few advantages over fish oil. First, krill oil is much more easily digestible as it is water soluble to a greater degree than standard fish oil. Secondly, krill oil has a phospholipids outer layer. This is important because to do any good in your body, the omega-3s must be able to get inside the cells: the cells wall is made of phospholipids, so the krill oil is already in the proper form to gain admittance with no conversion required. Thirdly, the astaxanthin in krill oil protects the omega-3s from oxidation. Michael Eades, MD, writes, “The antioxidant potency of krill is such that when compared to fish oil in terms of ORAC (oxygen radical absorbance capacity) values, it was found to be 48 times more potent than fish oil.”
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A study published in Alternative Medicine Review showed that, in their test subjects, a 3.0 granm/day dose of krill oil over a 90-day period reduced total cholesterol by 18 percent, reduced LDL by 39 percent, increased HDL by 60 percent, and lowered triglycerides by 27 percent.
The icing on the cake, as it were, is that krill oil is very ecologically responsible: the biomass of krill is estimated to be five times greater than the collective biomass of all the fish species commercially harvested today.
AKER BIOMARINE
Sustainable Krill Harvester
Nutrition Business Journal has recognized Aker BioMarine for its role in building the sustainable krill fishery infrastructure with it’s NBJ’s 2012 award for “Investing in the Future.”
Aker BioMarine has invested in creating a controlled krill supply chain in the Antarctic, with a long-term focus on sustainable harvesting. In cooperation with World Wild Fund for Nature-Norway to its certification from the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) to its collaboration with the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resource’s, Aker works to ensure the future of the company as well as the krill fishery at large.
Aker BioMarine is the only krill harvester certified by MSC, an international nonprofit organization with an independent certifying body and a public assessment process. In order to maintain MSC Certification, companies must maintain certain benchmarks and conditions verified by annual audits.
Natural Solutions
March 2013
