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The Benefits of Using Flax Seed for Sports Performance
Flax seed has been around for quite some time, but it wasn’t until recently that many people realized just how beneficial it was for athletes. Flax seed contains high amounts of alpha linolenic acid (ALA), a type of Omega-3 fatty acid that is converted in the body to hormone-like compounds that play an important role in construction of healthy cell walls, transportation of oxygen to body cells, proper growth of tissues such as muscle, and metabolism of energy for the heart muscle.
Why Men Should Eat Flax Seed
But is there any reason why men should add more flax seed to their diet? Indeed there is! In fact, there are several reasons men may want to eat more flax seed.
Flax Helps Protect Against Breast Cancer by Influencing Estrogen Metabolism
Two clinical studies found postmenopausal women who ate a diet supplemented with 10g or 25g of milled flax for 7 weeks or 16 weeks2 increased the excretion of 2-hydroxyestrone in their urine, without increasing the excretion of 16∝-hydroxyestrone.
Adding Flaxseed to Any Meal
Flaxseed has been a part of a healthy human diet for much longer then you may realize. The first recorded use of flaxseed in cooking goes all the way back to ancient Mesopotamia where it has been growing for many thousand years. Back then of course it was used for food, but was [...]
Flax and Menopause
The ‘active’ mammalian lignans produced in the body with flax consumption have hormonal effects in women and may help to relieve menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes. They act by binding to estrogen receptors on cell membranes. These mammalian lignans are not as powerful as natural estrogens, but they can act as either estrogen [...]
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