Cod Liver Oil

  Written by Chris Masterjohn    Updated 15 December 2011 When sunlight of the ultraviolet-B (UVB) wavelength strikes the skin, it is absorbed by 7-dehydrocholesterol, a steroid and precursor to cholesterol, splitting open one of its carbon rings and thus converting it into the secosteroid previtamin D3. While 7-dehydrocholesterol is tucked tightly within the lipids of skin cell membranes, previtamin D3 is an unstable compound that over a brief period of time converts into vitamin D3, causing it to be released from the cell membrane.12 Vitamin D3 then travels into the blood where it binds to vitamin D-binding protein (DBP).16 Eventually, it is delivered...

Cod Liver Oil: The Number One Superfood Health Topics - Cod Liver Oil by Krispin Sullivan Cod liver oil is very good for you, more than you ever knew. Doctor Price was right, as usual. Research studies ranging from 1918-2001 give cod liver oil an A+ rating. This marvelous golden oil contains large amounts of elongated omega-3 fatty acids, preformed vitamin A and the sunlight vitamin D, essential nutrients that are hard to obtain in sufficient amounts in the modern diet. Samples may also naturally contain small amounts of the important bone- and blood-maintainer vitamin K. There is hardly a disease in the...

Fermented Cod Liver Oil: The Yin and the Yang, are the discussion perspective from this Chinese Medicine author that is written by Leslie McGee. You can buy Fermented Cod Liver Oil in Australia from Nourishing Ecology e-Store in Australia and have Australia Post Express Post shippping deliver it to your door.   The Yin and Yang of Cod Liver Oil  By Leslie McGee My training is in Chinese medicine, and although cod liver oil has its roots in Scandinavia; we can look at any food or supplement through the prism of Chinese medicine theory. As I have learned more about the research on cod liver oil,...