Natural Asthma Treatment

Some of you may have seen this before, but, as it was a very popular article I thought I should put it up again.  I received expert author status from Ezine articles for this one.  Yes, I am quite proud of that.  Here ya go.

Of Eskimos, acids and oils.

First things first.  It’s a simple premise.  If you want to figure out how to do something right, find someone who does it well and follow their example.  This is true for all things, including natural asthma treatments.

Take a look at the Inuit population of Alaska.  They exercise regularly as part of their daily lives and have a diet that is high in cold saltwater fish.  Why is this important? One look at these people and you will realise why.  Heart disease, asthma, alzheimers.  These diseases have a very low occurrence in the Inuit population.  And recently the rest of the world has begun to understand why.

Omega-3 fatty acids are an anti-inflammatory and they also play an important part in human physiology.  The long chain fatty acids known as DHA and EPA (please don’t ask me to write their full names) are used inside the cell wall membranes of the cells in your body.  They are used to create and repair the cell walls.

They help repair cells in hair, eyes, heart, lungs, even in your brain.  Omega-3’s have been touted as a panacea (cure all) of late and when you begin to understand how the body uses them you start to see why.  So lets look a little more closely at them.

As stated earlier, the human body uses long chain EPA and DHA in it’s cells.  The richest source of these fatty acids can be found in fish oil.  Primarily these come from deep cold water marine fish.  In Australia we are lucky as one of the richest and cleanest fish to get them from, “Hoki”, Continue reading →