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The recommendations are legion:
30% of your daily calories
should come from fat.
Get about 90 grams of fats a day.
Get
lots of Omega-3 fatty acids.
The Western diet contains very
little GLA, so make sure you get some regularly.
Make sure
to get some coconut oil every day.
Try to grab a handful
of walnuts every day.
Add extra-virgin olive oil to your
vegetables.
In addition to getting animal-based omega 3 fatty
acids, get some plant-based omegas, too.
Make sure your ratio
of omega-6 fatty acids to omega-3 fatty acids is approximately 2 or 3 to 1, lest
you develop all kinds of inflammatory diseases, including heart disease.
Include
medium-chain triglycerides (MCT) in your diet because of their rapid conversion
to energy.
Sure, after I've
done all that, every single day, maybe I'll have some time left over to, I don't
know, HAVE A LIFE?
C'mon!
Who's got the time, dedication, or wherewithal to do all that!?!
Not
us. That's for sure.
Look,
if you eat like a bodybuilder, it's standard operating procedure to make an effort
to achieve a certain macronutrient ratio. As an example, we might strive for a
diet consisting of 40% protein, 30% carbohydrates, and 30% fat.
And
some even shoot for a lower carbohydrate percentage, replacing the omitted carbs
with even more fat.
That's
all fine in theory, but practice is another thing because it's just hard to do.
Now
Biotest has already given you the best source of anti-inflammatory omega-3s on
the planet in Flameout, but we've neglected (who hasn't?) the rest of the fatty-acid
picture.
In other words,
we left some of our bases uncovered. Flameout covers our fish oil (omega-3) and
Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) needs, but that leaves a big hole for the other
essential fats, fats that are collectively important for optimizing body composition,
hormone production, bone health, and immune function, among other things.
So
most of us at Biotest, in order to cover the other fatty acid bases, would chug
some olive oil here and there, fry our foods in coconut oil (when we could find
it), and then, on the off-chance someone had some highly coveted borage oil in
the refrigerator, we'd appropriate (polite word for steal) some.
In
essence, we were fat marauders, finding it where we could but rarely getting the
proper amounts, and even more rarely getting the proper ratios we needed for health
or for optimum body composition.
So,
to make our lives easier, in addition to making it exponentially easier to maintain
a healthy body, we applied horse sense to the problem.
We
decided to create a partner to Flameout, the Robin to its Batman, or the Batman
to its Robin. We had to create a fatty-acid softgel that contained all the rest
of the healthful, functional fatty acids we need to take every day, the ones we
need to be leaner, more muscular, more energetic, more healthy, and to have purty
skin like one of those harp seals that get their skulls bashed in every year for
their silky pelts.
And
in addition to all those healthful goals, we had to create something that would
make it easier to meet our daily macronutrient ratio for fats in general.
So
say hello to Biotest's FA3™ Super Complex. (You don't really need to say,
"Hello," it's just a figure of speech.)
Biotest's
FA3 Super Complex contains the highest quality and purest available forms of lauric
acid, oleic acid, and gamma-linoleic acid (GLA).
These
are derived from special, standardized forms of organic virgin coconut oil, certified
organic olive oil, and borage oil, all incorporated into a self-emulsifying delivery
system that substantially enhances digestion and bioavailability.
Lauric Acid 1,350 mg
Oleic Acid 815 mg
Gamma-linolenic Acid 455 mg
Linoleic Acid 875 mg
Take
6 to 9 capsules a day (depending on your body weight and dietary habits), along
with a serving of Flameout, and you've met your fatty acid needs for the day.*
*Meeting
your fatty acid needs is no small feat, because in today's industrialized food
culture, hardly anyone ever meets their ideal fatty acid needs unless they really,
really try.
When I started writing
this article, I was working under the assumption that people understand the need
for functional fatty acids, but as I pored through the research, I realized that
there was a lot of stuff I didn't know and a lot of stuff that I'd forgotten,
so it stood to reason that maybe some of you might stand to benefit from a refresher
course on what the above fatty acids do.
No
sweat.
Generally speaking, "free"
fatty acids perform a host of functions from actually being incorporated into
your cell membranes, being metabolized into inflammatory mediators, binding to
DNA to upregulating metabolic machinery, facilitating the production of anabolic
hormones, or being metabolized for energy.
As
far as the specific fatty acids in FA3, here's a brief list of their functions:
• Provides rapid burst of energy (through
metabolization of MCTS*)
•
Stimulates metabolism
• Is beneficial to skin
•
Contributes to prostate health
*MCTs,
or Medium Chain Triglycerides, have a shorter "chain length" than many
other fats and because of this unique structure, are burned more readily than
other types of fat, thus providing rapid energy with less fat storage.
• Increases Testosterone production*
•
Is cardioprotective (beneficial effects on the heart, cholesterol levels, and
blood pressure)
• Combats degenerative disease
*An
animal study just published in "Lipids" reports that olive oil, or more
specifically, oleic acid, increases the rate at which the testes produce Testosterone.
The Leydig cells in the testes make Testosterone from cholesterol. A diet rich
in olive oil and coconut oil (oleic acid and lauric acid) apparently helps the
cells absorb more cholesterol. In short, the more cholesterol the Leydig cell
has available, the higher the rate of Testosterone production. Incidentally, the
testes of the animals on the oleic acid and lauric acid diet actually got heavier.
• Stimulates metabolism through activation
of brown fat
• Is anti-inflammatory
•
Is anti-estrogenic
• Improves cholesterol levels
•
Improves skin health
• Is essential in natural production of
steroid hormones
• Is essential in controlling cellular
metabolism
• Is anti-inflammatory
And
these are just a small sample of the purported effects of the functional fatty
acids in FA3. Heck, it's a pretty safe bet that if you Googled practically any
medical condition in conjunction with one of the above fatty acids, you'd find
some research to support their use.
In
fact, my initial thought was to list references supporting the above benefits,
but there are so many, the task was downright daunting, so much so that I didn't
bother. Suffice it to say, the healthy benefits of the functional fatty acid in
FA3 comprise a very, very, long list. Some of the purported effects have yet to
be proven conclusively, but no one can argue that the overall benefits of the
fatty acids in FA3, taken in sufficient quantities, aren't pretty damn impressive.
If
you want to start making your life easier right away, if you want to start getting
healthier right away, if you want to improve your body composition right away,
all at an extremely reasonable and affordable price, get yourself some FA3.
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