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Jerry Hickey, Ph.: [00:00:40] For decades, we’ve known that fish oils are very important for health. They nourish your brain and your eyes in fact, they help make your brain. Your brain has a high fat content and a lot of this is fat from fish oils. In fact, there is data that fish oils reduce the risk of dementias and reduce the risk of developing depression. And they are needed for rods and cones, for fine vision, for color vision. And interestingly, the level of fish oils declines on the brain of those with age. So it’s good to either eat more fish or take a fish oil supplement. Fish oils and fish have a role in muscle, but also bone health. They’re very important for your heart, they help prevent the heart from racing inordinately. They help prevent sudden cardiac death, which alone makes it important to eat fish or take a fish oil supplement. So you don’t need any other reason besides lower the risk of sudden cardiac death. There’s many, many, many studies showing this sudden cardiac death, the heart stops beating and it doesn’t start again. And it’s a killer, it kills over 200,000 Americans each year. So these fish become inordinately important. They help lower a type of fat. Some people are not familiar with called triglycerides, triglycerides are one of the greasy fats in your bloodstream that can lead to heart disease and strokes. And also, if they’re too high, they’re bad for the liver, they could be bad for the kidneys, they’re certainly bad for the heart. Now, fish oils, they supply long chain fatty acids, the most well known are and the dominant ones actually are EPA and DHA. They’re actually a category of fats called polyunsaturated fatty acids, which can be abbreviated PUFAS. Now these healthy fats, the EPA and DHA have noteworthy anti-inflammatory activity. They should be part of an anti-inflammatory diet, you know, like a diet low in red meat and processed foods and sugars and high in vegetables and fruits and healthy foods, whole grains. So they have strong anti-inflammatory activity and they’re now proven to have properties that help prevent and help fight, help assuage arthritis. So they are good for your joints.† [00:03:03]
[00:03:07] So welcome to my episode. Fish oils are good for your joints and krill might be superior. My name is Jerry Hickey. I’m a licensed pharmacist who specializes in nutrition. Welcome to the episode. You can find all of our episodes for free wherever you listen to podcasts or just go to invitehealth.com/podcast and if you could please subscribe and leave a review. You can also find InVite on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at InVite Health.† [00:03:33]
[00:03:35] So you can eat fish. That is, of course, cleaner, healthier type fish, you know, fish oils. They make a part of the brain, they make a part of your eyes. They have a lot of benefits. They have some ability, it seems, to lower the risk of breast cancer and possibly colon cancer. They are involved with muscle health. They are involved with bone health. They are involved with the rate of the heart rhythm. They are involved with correcting the immune system, so it’s not overly active because our immune system has a very powerful arsenal of of weapons, a very powerful army. It’s all the armed forces in one our immune system so officials to help prevent us from an overactive immune system. But then there is krill oil, which is actually what I take. I do eat fish. My wife is always making branzino or a barramundi or sole, but salmon. Salmon is common in the house. But I take krill oil capsules too every day. There’s a number of things in krill oil that are very healthy for you, that are not common in the diet. It’s not just fish oils.† [00:04:49]
[00:04:49] Krill is called Euphausiacea Superba. That’s latin binomial name. It’s tiny crustaceans so it’s a relative it’s a much smaller relative of shrimp. So if you’re allergic to shrimp, you’re going to be allergic to krill. Krill is the most common biomass, living biomass, organic biological biomass in the oceans. I mean, when you look at the krill floating on top of the sea in Antarctica, it’s covered in this red krill. The redness comes from a combination of the fish oils a little bit, but mostly from an antioxidant, a very powerful carotenoid called astaxanthin. Astaxanthin’s pinkish, it gives colors to salmon and it gives color to flamingos and a little bit to crabs and lobsters, etc. But it’s very high in acrylic acid.† [00:05:37]
[00:05:40] So it’s a tiny crustacean and like salmon, it’s loaded with fish oils. But it seems that these are more absorbable than the fish oils in a fish oil capsule. They’re attached to phospholipids. Phospholipids in and of themselves are incredibly important for humans they’re anti-inflammatory, they’re needed for your memory, they needed for your nerve function, they’re needed for muscle coordination, they’re needed to keep the liver healthy, they’re needed for your good cholesterol, HDL, to clean out your arteries and prevent a buildup of fat in the arteries, or build up, of cholesterol in the arterial walls. So they’re incredibly important the phospholipids, they’re key to good memory, they’re key to protecting the brain.† [00:06:23]
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[00:06:26] So krill supplies phospholipids which is good in itself you’ll also get phospholipids a little bit in grains, you’ll get it in legumes and you get it in fish. And because the phospholipids are attached to the fish oils, the fish oils are not damaged by your digestive juices and your stomach acids. So it’s intact and these phospholipids aid, the absorption of the fish oils. So a smaller krill oil capsule can actually give you more fish oils into your body, can actually get more fish oils onto your body many times to the big fish oil capsule. So it’s an excellent source plus, if you get certain brands, they’re really fresh and clean. Now the antioxidants excuse me, the anti-inflammatory activity of a krill is amplified by the high concentration of phospholipids, especially phosphatidylcholine. Phosphatidylcholine has the additional benefit of getting into your brain and creating acetylcholine for your memory and for logic, and solving problems, and remembering things, and learning. So the fish oils are attached to a great deal of these phospholipids, especially phosphatidylcholine, and it makes the fish oils better, more active for your health in general, but especially for your joint health. So let’s get into that.† [00:07:51]
[00:07:52] The University of Adelaide, along with research institutions, other research institutions and Australia like CSIRO, is a big research institution over there. They just released a new study on krill oil and arthritic joints. It’s published in the September issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. But interestingly, the discussion starts off with how common is osteoarthritis, how painful can it be, how disabling is it? There’s about 100 forms of arthritis, some of them you’ll never hear about. The most common is osteoarthritis, which is the wear and tear when people get in like their hip or their knee. The second most common, but nowhere as common as osteoarthritis is rheumatoid arthritis. Then there’s like lupus arthritis and psoriatic arthritis. There’s less and fewer and fewer of these cases as you go down the line. So forms of arthritis are extremely rare. So osteoarthritis is pretty common, that’s the one that you see the athletes getting knee replacement surgery for older people getting knee replacement surgery for typically. So they just published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition a September issue, like I mentioned this discussion. And they also say that NSAIDS are often used for this, but there’s a problem. So let me tell you that problem NSAIDS could be really toxic, they can have a lot of side effects, they could be dangerous. NSAIDS can trigger a stroke within the first week of use. That could trigger severe bleeding ulcers that are hard for doctors to find I mean, literally, people bleed to death in emergency rooms from these bleeding ulcers. When you go to have a test on your digestive tract and it’s you make an appointment for it, the doctors give you things to clean out your intestines and your digestive tract. So it’s easy for them to find things and see things right, like when you get a colonoscopy. But if you have a bleeding ulcer from like ibuprofen or you know, like Advil or NeoProfen or Motrin or Aleve or any of the prescriptions, there’s many of these prescription drugs like Diclofenac, which is called Voltaren. If you get a bleeding ulcer from these and you’re brought into the emergency room, it’s a medicine. It has all kinds of fluids and foods and mucus and everything. They can’t many times they can’t find where the bleeding come from I believe the figure is over 19,000 people a year bleed to death like that in emergency rooms and hospitals on these drugs. But they do trigger heart attacks, they do trigger strokes, they do cause high blood pressure, they do cause heart failure, they do cause kidney damage, they can be toxic to the eyes, they are toxic to your hearing. So you don’t want to be on these drugs long term for your needs if you don’t have to.† [00:10:33]
[00:10:36] So these researchers are saying, well, NSAIDS are a problem. We need an option so is there a safer yet still effective option? And the answer is yes, fish oils and especially krill oil. So this new study is 235 otherwise healthy adults. They range in age between 40 to 65. They’re all diagnosed with mild to moderate osteoarthritis at four different institutions in Australia, four different clinics. The knee pain really dropped with the krill oil. Now this is interesting, you can affect your pain with your brain. So when they give a placebo for pain, that helps pain. So anything that helps better than a placebo is real. And the krill oil was much better for pain than placebo, than the power of the mind. And this wasn’t a randomized fashion you know, a placebo controlled fashion over a six month period. So the krill truly had an effect on reducing knee pain above and beyond what the brain can do, and it reduced stiffness, these people were able to function better, they were less stiff getting out of bed and playing sports, etc. It improved their physical function, it improved their quality of life. By the way the krill was extremely safe to use. So, I mean, the knee was working better, they had a greater range of motion. That’s how much you can bend your knee without pain, how far you could walk, how comfortable you were walking up and down stairs.† [00:12:04]
[00:12:05] Now, that’s not the only study like this. PloS one had a study. PloS one is a great American group of journals that we pay for out of tax payer funds. And it’s meant to disseminate studies to places where doctors and clinicians cannot afford to get these studies. So for instance, a Dr. with a single practice in some small town in Wyoming and doesn’t really have access to all these big libraries like tufts of Harvard etc. So they can go to ploS one and get the studies for free. So ploS one’s a great group of journals, it’s not just one journal. So this was performed by Japanese researchers in Japan in arthritis clinics throughout Japan. But there was also a bunch of Chinese academic research institutions involved, it was a randomized, placebo controlled human clinical trial. So these are standardized studies I’m telling you about, it was adults with knee pain, arthritis, and it was krill oil versus placebo. They only gave it for 30 days, which is really a short time. But very quickly, it reduced knee pain. Very quickly, it was helping improve knee stiffness. For instance, when they were trying to sleep at night, they had less knee pain. It was easier to sleep, when they were standing, when they were holding something, when they were walking. They had a bigger improvement and range of motion versus placebo. Once again placebo, the power of the brain on pain is amazing.† [00:13:32]
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[00:13:32] So once again the krill worked better. But this is in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition this is a different kind of study. That’s researchers in Canada. It’s a randomized, placebo controlled human clinical trial so once again, a gold standard study. And it’s 90 patients with inflammation and arthritis. They had an increase in their CR-P. Let me explain what that is. I get that tested twice a year for this reason. There’s autoimmune diseases in my family, but there’s also heart attacks in my family. As CR-P is released from liver when you’re inflamed. So it’s a proxy for inflammation. So if it goes up, we know you’re inflamed, if it goes down, your inflammation has subsided. We don’t know what CR-P itself does it might even help protect you a little bit. We’re not quite sure what CR-P does, but we know what goes up when you’re inflamed and they can measure, they can quantify and qualify what’s going on because like normal depends on the lab. Some labs normal is 1 to 3 because they have a different way of testing it. Other labs, it’s one or less. So if it’s elevated a little bit, you’re developing plaque in your arteries. If it’s elevated more, not only are you developing plaque in your arteries, hardening of the arteries, it’s called or Athero-Genesis, the genesis of plaque in your arteries. But not only that, that plaque is highly inflamed and unstable like there’s bleeding sores on the outside. That plaque, that plaque is like akin to wax, that cholesterol plaque and it can break off and cause a stroke or a heart attack. So you want to keep your eye and your CR-P, it stands for C-reactive protein. And within 30 days, krill oil reduced CR-P by 31%, whereas the CR-P and the people in placebo actually increased. So there was a big difference between the krill oil and the people on placebo. It went up in the people on placebo because they’re getting more and more inflamed. But krill oil reduced pain scores by 29% within the first couple of weeks. It reduced stiffness by 20% and an improved functional impairment by 23% within the first several weeks. Functional impairment is, hey, I can’t I can’t climb the stairs that easily. I can’t get on the golf course, I can’t play pickleball. So here’s a related type of story because fish oils are good for your muscles. Now, krill not only has the fish oils, also it has choline, and that’s phosphatidylcholine, which improves brain, nerve, eye, muscle coordination. So that’s cool, like if you’re a pitcher or a golfer or something, but not only that, fishers are good for your muscles. And the choline in the phosphatidylcholine allows muscles to work. It creates something called acetylcholine that allows muscles to fire. So krill is better for your muscles, in my opinion, than fish oils.† [00:16:16]
[00:16:18] So this is the University of Glasgow, which would be in Scotland, the University of Western Australia and Nottingham, Trent University, which would be England. It’s in the Journal of Clinical Nutrition and it’s 102 men and women over the age of 65. They did not exercise regularly, they got some activity, not much. So that was at baseline then- so at baseline means before they gave them the krill oil or the placebo. So at baseline they looked at their muscles and their muscle strength at six weeks and at six months. And here’s what they found. From baseline on krill oil and people that were not active, knee strength improved. Knee strength actually improved over a six month supplementation, but so did their grip strength. That’s really interesting older people with stronger grip strength, they’re much less likely to die prematurely. Muscle thickness actually improved. This is important because it helps stabilize your knees and makes your muscles strong. You’re less likely to fall and break your knee. You less likely to fall and break your hip. But also, when you stabilize the muscles around the knee, it helps with knee pain. So not only helping with falling, you’re helping the knee preserve the health of the knee. So the krill oil over a six month period, improved muscle strength and muscle size in older people to a clinically important degree of clinically significant degree.† [00:17:51]
[00:17:53] Of course, you should exercise I get a lot of exercise. I ride a bike, I play pickleball, I lift a lot of weights, I do a lot of walking, I do hiking when I can. Like if I’m in California or someplace I swim, I get a lot of exercise. I get exercise every day, but I do take two krill every morning. Even though I eat fish several times a week, I’m doing krill. It lowers inflammation, it reduces your risk of dementia, it reduces your risk of sudden cardiac death, it’s great for your liver, it helps get fat out of your liver, that’s the choline content. It’s good for your muscles, it’s good for your bones. There’s no reason not to take krill if you get a good formula. And I would take two a day. Two a day with breakfast, do it at breakfast. Get it out. Get it out of the way. This way, you remember.† [00:18:39]
[00:18:40] Thanks for listening. You could find all of our episodes for free or wherever you listen to podcasts or just go to invitehealth.com/podcast and they want me to say please subscribe and leave a review. And I think that’s important, if you could oblige us. You can find all of our episodes for free wherever you listen. So there you go. But you can also find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at InVite Health. Thanks for listening. Hope to see you next time. Another episode of InVite Health podcast and it’s Jerry Hickey signing off. Have a great day.† [00:18:40]
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[00:00:40] Welcome to another podcast at InViteⓇ Health. Today we’ll be talking about bromelain and the numerous benefits this supplement has been studied to have. My name is Melissa Bistricer and I am a registered dietitian. I am so excited to bring to you the nutritional aspect of the nutrients here at InViteⓇ Health. Nutrition food for thought: Every time you eat or drink, you are either feeding or fighting a disease. Remember, having a healthy, balanced diet does matter. InViteⓇ Health promotes an integrative approach in providing vitamins into your daily life to increase your quality of life. In conjunction with nutrients, it is also important to learn and include other lifestyle modifications like nutrition, exercise and sleep. These practices, with the use of vitamins, will promote optimal benefits in your daily life.† [00:01:30]
[00:01:31] Now let’s get onto the topic of bromelain and why we should have a bottle on hand at all times. Don’t forget that bromelain is naturally found in pineapple. Bromelain is a proteolytic enzyme generally found in the stems of pineapple. Though pineapple does contain citric acid, which may contribute to discomfort, the acid is not the main culprit here, though. Pineapple is the only fruit that contains bromelain, which helps to digest proteins. Do you ever feel like when you’re eating raw pineapple it hurts to eat? Well, that is simply because the bromelain is digesting the tender skin inside your mouth. Pineapple is known to be a great tenderizer for meats due to the enzyme bromelain has, which softens the muscle fibers. The protein in the meat is broken down and increases meat’s potential to absorb moisture. This is the reason why pineapple is the preferred method to tenderize meat. Don’t think just because you eat some pineapple on pizza, you will get all the benefits because there’s so little on it, it won’t be effective enough. Wait. Isn’t this a controversial topic? Do you eat your pizza with pineapple? Well, I personally don’t like it, but who’s asking me anyways? Now, let’s not get into politics of pizza and pineapple. Let’s get back to the scientific part.† [00:02:46]
[00:02:47] In the body, the proteolytic enzyme stimulates the body’s digestive process to support digestion by breaking down proteins into smaller components. The proteolytic enzymes are called cysteine proteinase, which is the breakdown of protein to help digest foods. It can also help combat diarrhea. The thought is this that it can counteract the effects of intestinal pathogens such as Vibrio or E Coli. Ever having a really, really heavy meal? Like imagine on Thanksgiving when you feast over that turkey, the gravy, the stuffing. Oh, and sweet potato pie, too. You may feel slightly bloated. Therefore, just taking 1 to 2 capsules of the bromelain can help break down the proteins and the heavy feeling in your stomach.† [00:03:31]
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[00:03:32] Bromelain also has other beneficial components, such as helping acute inflammation, headaches, or even if you twist your ankle and need some relief. Instead of taking the non-steroidal anti-inflammatories called NSAIDs, which can cause potential liver and kidney damage in the future. Unfortunately, Americans generally turn to NSAIDs or prescription drugs as they are the only effective remedies for common disorders. Although studies have been showing that natural therapies, rather than medications for arthritis have been effective, there has been evidence to prove that the drugs for arthritis, so Vioxx and Bextra, were later withdrawn due to lethal adverse reaction. In hindsight, NSAIDs have a warning about potential to increase risks for heart attacks and stroke with their use. Medical history has been advancing, and several natural alternatives have been seen to work with no side effects. Bromelain has been one of those anti-inflammatory nutrients that have been overlooked in the past. Bromelain-based formulations have been clinically studied to show more effective benefits than anti-inflammatory prescription drugs, to relieve pain and inflammation. A general over-all beneficial supplement to have always in your medicine cabinet to turn to rather than Advil, Motrin or Aleve is bromelain. Pain reliever drugs, either prescribed or brought over-the-counter, that can lead to other chronic complications such as gastric ulcers or liver kidney damage. Bromelain has powerful proteolytic enzymes, which again benefits digestive enhancement.† [00:05:18]
[00:05:19] Athletes have used bromelain as well to help manage joint injuries. Those undergoing surgery used to speed recovery time. Bromelain has a powerful proteolytic enzyme which, again, benefits digestive enhancement. Athletes have used bromelain as well to help manage joint injuries and those undergoing surgery use it to speed recovery time. The use of bromelain on reducing the pain of osteoarthritis… Recent studies from, from Germany on 90 patients who suffer from osteoarthritis of the hip. The study is a randomized controlled trial, with half the participants receiving a bromelain supplement and other receiving an anti-inflammatory drug called diclofenac. The results indicated that the use of bromelain may be beneficial in treatment of patients with osteoarthritis of the hip with the signs of inflammation to help with high pain levels. Other studies have resulted in the same outcome, comparing bromelain with the, with diclofenac. The patient also reported decreased joint tenderness, pain, swelling and improvement of motion at the end of the day.† [00:06:23]
[00:06:24] In another research study from the United Kingdom, from a three-month study, looked at the effectiveness of the dose of bromelain. There was one group that was receiving 200mg of bromelain and one group that was receiving 400mg of bromelain. The participants had mild acute pain. When they were given 200mg, there was a 41% decrease of pain. And when given 400mg of bromelain, there was a 59% decrease in pain. With the higher dose of 400mg of bromelain, it was observed to help the stiffness and physical function, though the study also indicated that bromelain is also effective in improving general well-being in healthy individuals who suffer from mild knee pain. Evidence-based complementary alternative medicine demonstrates that bromelain supports joint health.† [00:07:14]
[00:07:15] Bromelain has been shown to have numerous therapeutic benefits to support lungs and joint. It also regulates prostaglandin levels, the sign of chronic inflammation, therefore helping to provide comfort and joint modulation of certain immune cells to support respiratory health. Bromelain has also been helpful in healing minor injuries such as sprains, strains and other traumas. Bromelain has also helped to speed up surgical help to support pain relief. A study was completed with a combination of bromelain, trypsin and rutoside on individuals taking the supplements two weeks following surgery for a fixed fracture. The group that received the bromelain has positive reduction in post-operative swelling.† [00:07:58]
[00:07:59] At Mount Sinai, they have completed research as well, determining that bromelain has a multitude of benefits, such as treating indigestion and reducing inflammation. There even has been evidence that bromelain has helped with inflammatory bowel disease, such as ulcerative colitis, which can be caused by cramping, pain, diarrhea and weight loss. The Annals of Internal Medicine has published reports on two individuals who suffered from ulcerative colitis, which have not yet benefited from any conventional therapy but have benefited from bromelain supplementation. Bromelain helps relieve symptoms such as frequent diarrhea. Further investigation on the use of bromelain on inflammatory bowel disorders, according to North Carolina’s Duke University needs to be studied to fully understand and assess the use of bromelain on inflammatory bowel disorders. Biomedical reports that bromine is safe and successful for therapeutic use worldwide for conditions such as bronchitis, sinusitis, arthritis and inflammation. Sinusitis is the painful inflammation of the sinuses cavities that cause bacterial, fungal or viral infections. A recent study showed that bromelain has multiple benefits on sinuses health by thinning the nasal secretions and inhibiting the production of inflammatory prostaglandins. The German commission E actually approved bromelain to treat swelling and inflammation after surgery, specifically sinus surgeries.† [00:09:26]
[00:09:27] Bromelain has also been effective for skin disorders called pityriasis lichenoid chronica, which is a skin disease that is caused by the development of small scaling raised spots on the skin. This disorder has no clinically proven treatment, but a study was completed on several individuals given a bromelain supplement, with complete recovery and no adverse effects. It has properties of immunomodulatory and anti-neoplastic effects to help with anti-inflammation and antimicrobial effects.† [00:09:59]
[00:10:00] Lastly, probably the most exciting news that research has been coming out with suggesting that the use of bromelain and the effects it has on anti-cancer therapeutic agents. A recent study was conducted on mice to assess the use of bromelain on anti-cancer effects. Further research still has to be completed to see the use of bromelain in anti-cancer therapy. The bromelain can work through several mechanisms, though, including inhibiting the tumor growth, decreasing tumor growth and boosting the immune systems and anti-cancer activity.† [00:10:31]
[00:10:32] With all the benefits, it is also important to note that there are some safety cautions to be aware of. If you have an allergy to pineapple or pineapple juice, bromelain should not be taken. Be aware certain prescribed medications may interact with taking bromelain. Make sure to talk to a healthcare provider if taking any prescribed medications. Well lastly, bromelain, as mentioned, does come from pineapples, but don’t think you can eat an entire pineapple, as it will not be enough to be effective. That’s why I have the bromelain supplements sold at invitehealth.com, so go check it out.† [00:11:07]
[00:11:07] Take charge of your health today and talk with one of our healthcare providers about any complementary health approaches to use. Together, we can make a shared, well-informed decision for you. If you have any further questions, you are always welcome to chat with me as a nutritionist or any of our other healthcare providers to assist you at invitehealth.com. Or you can email me directly at [email protected]. That’s m-b as in boy-i-s-t-r-i-c-e-r at invitehealth.com. I am Melissa Bistricer, RDN, ready to share the knowledge to help you modify your lifestyle to live a happier, more successful life. I am looking forward to continuing to provide you with educational podcasts and blog posts. Again, nutrition food for thought: Every time you eat or drink, you are either feeding or fighting the disease. Remember, having a healthy, balanced diet does matter. Have a great day and tune in for the next podcast, coming to you soon.† [00:11:07]
