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(Message started by: Katherinecm on Jun 21^st, 2006, 1:30pm)

Title: GLA?
Post by Katherinecm on Jun 21^st, 2006, 1:30pm

Hey, on my whole blood sugar investigation thing I came across some info about Taurine working to make you more sensitive to insulin. While searching for info on Taurine and disease I found some info on GLA, Gamma-linolenic acid, which supposively helps both to break down lipids in the blood and to help "normalize blood vessels." It's also an anti-inflammatory.

Has anyone tried taking GLA supplements?

Title: Re: GLA?
Post by floridian on Jun 21^st, 2006, 6:48pm

I take fish oil, which (like GLA) is an omega-3 fatty acid. I have speculated that those might help some people, but can't say for sure. I have been in remission for a few years, but is it due to fish oil, (or the magnesium, melatonin, B-vitamins, and other things I take), or I am just getting a break? Dunno.

Consumer Reports has gone so far as to reccomend all middle age adults take a fish oil supplement (mostly for the cardio benefits). But it also helps with the immune system and nervous system - generally improving a person's autonomic function, but not proven to reverse the autonomic imbalance in cluterheads.