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Buy: The Omega Rx Zone: The Power of the New High-Dose Fish Oil ISBN: 9780060501624 Publisher: HarperAudio Introducing the next generation of the Zone–a revolutionary new plan that enhances brainpower, improves physical performance, and builds amazing disease-fighting power. Abridged. |
Chapter One
The Continuing Evolution of the Zone
The distinguishing feature that makes us human is our constant search to understand the world around us. In that search, there are two types of questions you can ask. One is how things work the way they do, and the other is why things occur in the first place. The “how” questions are the backbone of science, whereas the “why” questions are usually the foundation of philosophy. In medicine, the “why” questions are rarely asked because there are no obvious answers, and the chances for success are very low. Furthermore, even if you do successfully answer a “why” question, your answer is likely to generate a violent reaction in the medical community if it in any way suggests a significant deviation from the status quo.
In my own case, I have pondered a very basic “why” question for the past twenty years: Why do we develop chronic disease? Although the medical establishment has developed a massive infrastructure to treat the symptoms of chronic disease, we have made very little progress in understanding its underlying cause.
I reasoned many years ago that the best chance I had for success at answering this fundamental “why” question was to understand the world of hormones. Until recently, most people used the word hormones only to describe puberty or an overactive sex drive. Now hormones are the subject of many a cocktail party conversation because they appear to be the magical elixir that will keep you young and vital: hormone replacement therapy for females and testosterone and replacement for males. Hormones are so important because they orchestrate an incredibly complex flow of biological information in the body. I truly believed that hormones were the overriding factor that determined whether we would be chronically sick or well. Controlling these hormones, I theorized, would be the key to preventing chronic disease. I also speculated that hormonal control could be achieved primarily through our diet.
All my Zone books are based on the premise that you have the power to control your hormones through your diet. Hormones are the key to your future, and in particular to longevity, optimal health, and ultimately remaining human. In fact, improved hormonal control is like a philosophers’ stone that allows you to enjoy better health, better performance, better relationships, and a longer life.
Once you learn to control your hormones, you have a magical “drug” that can:
- Prevent heart disease
- Reverse cancer
- Reduce pain and inflammation
- Treat neurological disease
But if you can treat those diseases with this “drug,” then the same “drug” can also:
- Reverse the aging process
- Make you smarter
- Make you thinner
- Improve your physical performance
- Improve your relationships with others
If controlling your hormones is the way to a longer and better life, is there any drug out there that allows you to do this consistently and with no side effects? Fortunately a “drug” exists that takes you off the path to disease and puts you on the path to wellness. It’s not a pill or injection or even a gene transplant; it’s the food you eat. But for this “drug” to work you have to take it at the right time and at the right dosage for the rest of your life.
HOW IS THE OMEGA RX ZONE DIFFERENT FROM THE ZONE?
I first introduced the Zone seven years ago. The Zone is not some mystical place; it is a physiological state of your body in which the hormones that can be controlled by the diet are balanced for optimal health. Furthermore, the Zone is defined by very precise clinical parameters in the blood. These blood tests are based on the dynamic balance of two key hormonal systems (insulin and eicosanoids) that can be controlled by my dietary program. My earlier recommendations still remain the best way to control insulin, but only the new emphasis on high dose fish oil can truly allow you to achieve the full potential of the Omega Rx Zone. This is because the Omega Rx Zone is ultimately about improved eicosanoid control. In essence, you should think of the Omega Rx Zone as a top of a mountain, and my dietary recommendations as the best pathway to it.
As I mentioned in the introduction, there are three components to my dietary plan:
1. Balancing protein and carbohydrate at every meal
This controls insulin levels.2. Calorie restriction without hunger or deprivation
This is the only proven way to increase longevity.3. Supplementation with high dose fish oil
This alters eicosanoids.
The first two components follow my original dietary recommendations to move a person toward the Zone. The third component is completely new and boosts the health benefits obtainable in the Omega Rx Zone to new heights.
People in the medical community may raise their eyebrows when they hear how much fish oil I’m suggesting to reach the full potential of the Omega Rx Zone. My recommendations, however, are backed up by sound science. Equally important, I have had the opportunity to use high dose fish oil in a number of seemingly hopeless situations, and each time I have been amazed at the results. There are patients with dementia who returned from the living dead. There are cancer patients who can now look forward to a much longer life than they ever expected. There are young children with severe attention deficient disorder who had a complete reversal of behavior within three weeks. There is a patient who was scheduled to have both feet amputated because of nonhealing diabetic ulcers — yet after four months of using high dose fish oil, the wounds healed completely and the amputations were never done. There was a housebound woman with chronic pain who was on oxygen twenty-four hours a day because of obstructive pulmonary disease; within four weeks of starting to take high dose fish oil, she was off oxygen, walking, and pain-free. There was a woman who had such severe fibromyalgia that she rarely got out…
This book is not intended to replace medical advice or to be a substitute for a physician. If you are sick or suspect you are sick, you should see a physician. If you are taking prescription medication, you should never change your diet (for better or worse) without consulting your physician, because any dietary change will affect the metabolism of that prescription drug.
Prevention will always be the best medicine. However, prevention can be undertaken only by the individual, and that includes eating correctly. This is the foundation of a healthy lifestyle. You have to eat, so you may as well eat wisely.
Although this book is about food, the author and the publisher expressly disclaim responsibility for any adverse effects arising from following the advice given in this book without appropriate medical supervision.
Continues…
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September 23rd, 2008 at 9:41 am
Great Concepts - Opens Your Mind To Healthier Living,
Until I read the first Zone book I was a frequent fast food customer, eating loads and loads of high fat or high carbohydrate foods with no clue that these meals should be “balanced”. Prior to reading the book, my idea of a balanced meal was a burger, fries and diet coke.
Many of the concepts in the book are a little daunting at first. When I started following the ideas I had charts showing me the exact proportion of fat-carb-protein. Too confusing for my simple mind- I soon switched to Sears’ recommendation of using one fist sized portion of protein to two fist-sized portions of favorable carbohydrates.
I’ve begun following his advice on Omega 3, although I most admit that I purchased the cheaper Omega 3 which he sells on his zoneperfect site…and it is significantly more convenient to buy online which eliminates frequent searches of the store shelves.
I also love the ZonePerfect bars which can be purchased quite cheaply on sale (and at some of the wholesale clubs).
The end result of my focus on diet? 30lb weight loss in about 4 months. This was helped along by a regular exercise plan.
I strongly recommend this book even if you only use it as a kicking off point for upgrading your diet.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:49 am
This is a great book for the lay reader. It introduces one to a set of difficult concepts without ever talking down to you but not requiring you to get a degree in biochemistry before reading it. There is a wealth of references to studies done by major universities around the world which is really appreciated. I started using the Zone Dietary protocols in 1995 when his first book was published, Enter the Zone. It worked just as he said it would. Over the last two years I’ve strayed and gained about 10 lbs of unwanted body fat. Having recently gotten myself reorganized, I’ve started again and not only has the fat just melted off, but my BP has lowered. I’ve also started taking the Omega3 and can tell a difference. There are other books on Omega3 but Sears has a way of dealing with the subject that gives one the sense of talking to a family member about the stars: he’s right there and present and witty and smart. I only wish I’d known about Omega3 years ago. It, too, works. And what in this day of endless infomercials is more fascinating than to find something that works just as its promoter says it will???
My only criticism of the book is in the editing and proof reading. The publishers should be horse whipped.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:52 am
This is the definitely the best book available on this topic - avoid all others because they aren’t any informative than a brochure (I’ve bought them all).
He presents highly specific information while still not getting too academic.
One caveat: you certainly don’t have to get his outrageously expensive fish oil products. I get the Natural Factor’s Dr. Murray fish oil from either iherb.com, vitaminlife.com, or http://www.thdv.com. I also get 1/3 of my daily fish oil from puritan’s pride (consumerlab.com says they’re free of all toxins)
In general, he gets a little too paranoid about contaminants. Check out consumerlab.com for acceptable products.
Good Luck!
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:57 am
This is the definitely the best book available on this topic - avoid all others because they aren’t any informative than a brochure (I’ve bought them all).
He presents highly specific information while still not getting too academic.
One caveat: you certainly don’t have to get his outrageously expensive fish oil products. I get the Natural Factor’s Dr. Murray fish oil from either iherb.com, vitaminlife.com, or http://www.thdv.com. I also get 1/3 of my daily fish oil from puritan’s pride (consumerlab.com says they’re free of all toxins)
In general, he gets a little too paranoid about contaminants. Check out consumerlab.com for acceptable products.
Good Luck!