Benefits of Wild Salmon plus Astaxanthin

Hey! Hey! What'cha up to? Glad you could click by today. Fill your mug and hoist a virtual treat onto your place then come over and sit a spell. Say...do you like salmon. Nong and I sure do. Marinate it in a little soy sauce, garlic, black pepper and grill it for a few minutes a side. Marvy! Tasty and good for you, too. Listen to what my pal, Dr. Al has to say...

There’s nothing better than a sizzling salmon steak marinated with ginger and a bit of olive oil…

Besides the great taste – and the omega-3s – salmon has another huge health benefit… it’s a little-known nutrient that might be the strongest antioxidant in the world.

It’s called astaxanthin, and it’s the pigment that gives salmon a pinkish color.

Astaxanthin is part of the carotenoid family of nutrients, like beta-carotene. Except astaxanthin is 54 times stronger than beta-carotene. And it’s 65 times stronger than vitamin C.

Astaxanthin helps you maintain a healthy control on inflammation. It actually lowers C-reactive protein (CRP). CRP is a marker of inflammation in your body. Inflammation can persist or spread when your blood vessels aren’t getting the nutrients they need.

Astaxanthin reverses that arterial malnutrition. In one study, they gave people 4 mg of astaxanthin three times a day. Their CRP dropped almost 21 percent. In contrast, the people who got no astaxanthin had their CRP creep upwards… 

And it’s not just for controlling inflammation. Astaxanthin has a benefit to your DNA. It protects DNA from damage. In another clinical trial people took either a placebo or astaxanthin. After only 8 weeks, a special genetic marker that determines DNA damage dropped by 43 percent in the group taking good doses of astaxanthin.²

Astaxanthin may just be the best antioxidant for DNA protection. It’s 800 times stronger than CoQ10, and 550 times more than vitamin E or green tea.^3,4

Salmon is a great source of astaxanthin. But buy wild salmon. It contains far more astaxanthin than farmed salmon. Four ounces of farm-raised salmon contains less than 1 mg of astaxanthin. But wild-caught sockeye salmon contains a healthy 4.5 mg.⁵

You can also find astaxanthin in pink-colored seafood like lobster, crab, and shrimp.

Astaxanthin is also available as a supplement. Here, you want to be very careful of cutting corners. You can go out on the Internet and find cheap astaxanthin. But it will be synthetic… made using petrochemicals.

What’s worse is synthetic astaxanthin is more than 20 times weaker as an antioxidant than natural astaxanthin. So those people who go for the “cheap” option are really getting robbed. They’re paying $1 for 5 cents worth of antioxidant strength.

And here’s the real shame… most companies make an astaxanthin product tell you all about the benefits from all the different scientific studies… problem is, those studies show their benefit at 10mg of natural astaxanthin. Most supplements only give you half that amount and use a much inferior form than was used in the studies.

I recommend you get at least 10 mg of natural astaxanthin every day for the best antioxidant protection possible.

"Waiter...is your salmon wild?"
"Wild? Holy crap...you should have seen it Saturday night. Doing to salmon boogie, lifting weights, self-marinating in tequila...Party! Party! Party!"

C-ya, A!

Bob