Is The Fish Oil Effect For Everyone?

Why do so many people think that you should take fish oil. What does it do for you? The NCBI, National Center for Biotechnology Information suggests that the potential antithrombotic effect of fish oils may theoretically increase the risk for bleeding. Why would increasing the risk of bleeding be good for you?

Fish Oil thins the blood 

 

What has been proven is that taking fish oil thins your blood. Blood thinning can reduce the risk of stroke, heart attacks and other cardiovascular diseases by improving circulation and reducing the risk of blood clots. With that understanding, fish oil is good for you.

What does the idea of blood thinning have to do with your teeth? It is not really a concern, but more an observation. When you are having surgery... dental surgery, or any other kind of medical surgery you may ooze a bit more with thinner blood. There have been no studies or concerns that this is a problem for the surgical procedure.

According to the Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, fish oil also reduces heart rate and oxygen consumption during exercise without a decrement in performance. Unless anyone can find some other information, this all sounds pretty good to me.

The two most used blood thinners include warfarin and Factor Xa inhibitors

 

Warfarin injection is an anticoagulant. This anticoagulant is used to decrease the clotting ability of the blood and to help prevent harmful clots from forming in the blood vessels. Factor Xa inhibitors are generally used as prophylaxis in patients having hip and knee replacement surgery, where blood clots can form and lead to deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.

It is controversial, but it has been found that taking fish oil with warfarin has cause problems.  Patients undergoing anticoagulation therapy with warfarin should be educated about and monitored for possible drug-herb interactions, according to the Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Arizona.  The Department of Emergency Medicine at the Medical Sciences/University of Tehran reported a similar issue.

The most often used blood thinning drug that people with atrial fibrillation use has been warfarin, a vitamin K antagonist. Factor Xa inhibitors significantly reduced the number of strokes and systemic embolic events compared with warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation.

People have claimed that Best Nattokinase has worked well to lower blood pressure by using the enzyme Nattokinase, however, the study that I found by the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Changhua Christian Hospital in Taiwan, claims blood lipids were unaffected by nattokinase.

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