Endurance and muscle recovery
More than ten years ago, I spook about omega fatty acids for the first time. At that time, it was still relatively new that certain fatty acids from this group, in particular derivatives from the omega 3 group play an important role in the development of the brains. This refers to the EPA and DHA. Since then a lot has changed and a lot more research. What got ones attention was that our food contains way too much omega 6 fatty acids which the balance between omega 3 and omega 6 can be pretty upset. Clinical trials showed that when applying the omega 3 oil during the breeding, to achieve decent profit fell in the development of the youngsters. The breedingoil is therefore sufficiently well known by now.
Standing still is going backwards, so I try to keep up, so I recently read three interesting books about the subject. A clear distinction is made between the derivatives of the omega oils and base oils omega. Of interest are mainly based omega oils in the right proportion. More on that later.As so often revolutionary ideas are drilled into the ground by the established order. Take the example of the internist from down-under in the 80s with the statement that the stomach ulcers are caused by a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori and can be resolved with a course of amoxycillin. There were at that time made billions of antacids for the symptoms so the man was declared insane and largely ignored. Now ulcers lead to stomach cancer. That makes it not being open to new ideas than all less tidy. Only when the man had swallowed a glass of water with these bacteria to prove his point, and therefore came to be on the edge, the journalists were interested in this interesting history, which will sell as a smooth story. The story started rolling and ultimately this researcher, I heard, received the Nobel Prize for medicine.
Stomach ulcer are now tackled with antibiotics and the manufactures of the heartburn resources have seen their turnover reduce. Another Nobel laureate was a German scientist in the beginning of the last century that the argument posited that cancer is caused by a lack of oxygen in the cells. During my study of this story this study was repeatedly belittled and ridiculed. After all, how could a lack of oxygen now cause cancer. The man said oxygen deficiency in the cells, and not lack of oxygen in itself. There were scientists who had gone to work and sought the solution in the administration of supplemental oxygen to patients. But the results were disappointing to call, so the bearer of the message was further ridiculed. Yet the man had based on sound scientific research. For years nothing was done with it. Cancer Research focused and focuses on the billion dollar industry of chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Only lately the focus is on improving the defense to tackle the disease. This last is a promising approach.
Late 19th century, the hardening of the oil was tackled industrial. There was a golden opening for the industrial market. Indeed, by hardening of the oils could be going to make products such as margarine. After this hardening, the oils were hydrogenated trans fats which arise. These were then processed in everywhere, including in margarine. The margarines were then promoted as a boon to mankind. They were used everywhere. In 1929, a patent was applied for and obtained the process and emerged major food groups. Trans fats were not imagine our diet. Strangely enough, the number of cancer cases that arose since even further. That line continued enhanced by when, in the early sixties, the cows fed with concentrates to be started in order to produce more milk. The omega 3 and omega 6 in the cow milk where formed from the grass they ate, shrank proportionally per liter milk. Grass is for the cows a supplier of omega oil. People therefore got even less omega oil and especially omega 3 oil. The relative content was trans fats that we humans consumed was therefore even greater.
Meanwhile, the US has made trans fats banned because people started to realize how harmful they are for their health. In the EU, they are still used. Even if it is under a certain percentage the producers do not even have to put it in their analysis.
Now, an American professor who read the story of the Nobel Prize winner from Germany discovered another way that even small amounts of trans fats can be quite harmful to your health in the long term. This American professor made a connection between the oxygen in the cells and the omega 3 and omega 6 oils. Especially between the basic omega 3 and omega 6 oil base. It is important to see a difference between the various omega oils. One oil is not the other. This made clear to ourselves why certain oils in our fly our seemed to work better than others, when we were working on the development of the oil in the beginning of this century.
Omega 3 oil has anti-inflammatory properties and omega 6 oil a proin flammatory effect. A balance between the two is important to be able to allow the various processes in the body smoothly. As mentioned, a imbalance has aroused between omega 3 and omega 6 up to 1:25 to the advantage of the omega-6 oil. The latter is absolutely undesirable. That is why there is now a hype in the application of the omega 3 oil. You can not take any butter in the hands or there is the new slogan on sale include: rich in omega 3. Nothing wrong with that to a certain extent. But it is not the whole story. There is not namely, in the base or omega 3, or a derivative thereof. The body has a need for basic omega 3 and omega 6 as long as it is in proportion.
Why? And that is precisely the interest for both humans and our pigeons.
Basic omega 3 and omega 6 fats should be combined together in the right proportions. When that happens, these fatty acids are incorporated in the walls of the cells. You might think, why is it so important. Well, the American professor helped to establish that these basic omega 3 and 6 oils in the cell walls act as if they were oxygen magnets. These omega-3 and 6, in the cell walls shall by their structure to oxygen in that there can be in the cells. In this way, the cells can continue to supply energy by means of combustion of oxygen. If cells are deprived of oxygen because then they get oxygen (anaerobic) sugar burn. That German Nobel Prize winner of 1931 had already established that cells if they do not get enough oxygen, he even mentioned a 35% reduction, they passed on anaerobic digestion that there was no turning back. Then occurs, according to this Professor Warburg, the Nobel Prize winner of 1931, a mechanism that cells turn on survival strategy. That means, dived as fast as possible and burn sugar. The road to cancer.
Are you still there, because in principle it is very simple, but you need to see it, just as puzzling. Trans fats are partially deformed omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids. In principle the body can do little with it because they do not naturally occur in the nature. But if a body gets too little omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids the body starts looking for the nearest structures it can use it to build into the cell walls. Right! Those trans fats. The annoying thing is that these trans fats do not work like oxygen magnets and are therefore worthless to the cells. The result is that the cells not getting enough oxygen. And slowly but surely……..
There is no doubt that even small amounts of trans fats installing good basic food in omega 3 and 6 fatty acids may reduce drastically. The cells will start function less even when they get controlled small amounts of trans fats. From one the other can come/follow.
The body knows she's working with defective material and wants to restore it. It sends out signals that you feel hungry. In this way it hopes to sufficiently good basic omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids, in order to restore the case. Unfortunately, it usually does not work and therefore obesity is rampant everywhere. Also, in children.
Cholesterol binds to that trans fats, and therefore forms a problem for the blood vessels. I found the description of the American professional funny. We are all working to reduce cholesterol levels in the body because it is harmful to the blood vessels and the risk of heart disease would increase. The professor said: "We can compare the trans fats with drunk people who sit behind the wheel. But instead of picking up drunk people of the road, we are trying to solve the case by removing all the cars (cholesterol) from the road. The drunks are let alone.”
There are studies that suggest that an excessive reduction of cholesterol can increase the risk of developing cancer. The cynical comments I wrote here I've just removed. Indeed, it is, in principle, an article about the pigeons.
”You only see where you are looking for, you only look for what you know”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We have seen that the basic omega 3 and omega 6 function in the cell walls as oxygen magnets. Where this is more important than in the muscle cells in the pigeon. Research in Italy for long distance runners showed that runners who were given the right proportion of basic omega 3 and omega 6, were not only faster than runners who received a placebo oil. Also, the recovery of the runners was much faster. No cramps, no muscle damage from acidification that occurs when muscles need oxygen to burn.
All these data can also be important for our pigeons. Anyway enough reason to proceed with the development of a fly oil 2.0, to give it a name. Basic omega oils in the right proportion and quality of cold pressed. For not only more oxygen during the flight in the cells is important but also the recovery after the flight. Furthermore, it is also the reduce damage to the muscle cells, which has been scientifically established is of great importance.
Good Luck!
Peter Boskamp
