Thursday, January 28, 2016

When was the last time you had salmon?




FARMED SALMON IS FULL OF ANTIBIOTICS AND MERCURY, HERE’S HOW TO TELL IF YOUR SALMON IS SAFE

The difference in color is thanks to astaxanthin, a bright red molecule found in algae, plankton, and krill. This stuff is powerful. Astaxanthin:
  • is a potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory [1].
  • Improves blood flow [1].
  • Protects your mitochondria by strengthening their cell membranes keeping out damaging oxygen species [2].
  • Enhances mitochondrial energy production [2].
  • Increases strength endurance by more than 50% when used as a supplement, according to one study. The study was sponsored by an astaxanthin supplement company, so take the results with a grain of salt. That said, the study was also randomized and placebo-controlled, and it had a good number of participants [3].
Wild salmon get plenty of astaxanthin from their diets – especially sockeye salmon, which almost exclusively eat astaxanthin-rich plankton. Farmed salmon eat food pellets that don’t contain natural astaxanthin, so farmers add in a synthetic version. Most commercial astaxanthin comes from petrochemicals like coal [4], and it’s not chemically identical to natural astaxanthin.

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