Borage Oil
Borage oil or Borage. L is a source of essential acids. There are many healthy properties of borage oil in Viviendosanos you count them.
Borage oil is obtained from the seeds of the plant called "borage". It belongs to a large family of vegetables called the Boraginaceae. Through food we eat substances necessary for proper nutrition. Among these substances are essential fatty acids.
Our body is incapable of producing and extracted from food. Borage oil is one of those foods because it has different essential fatty acids.
Borage oil contains:
- linoleic acid
- gamma-linoleic acid
- oleic acid (such as olive oil)
Linoleic acid found in plants, but the second type (gamma-linoleic) is more difficult to find in food. Hence the importance of intake from borage oil, then around 25% of its composition is gamma-linoleic acid
Borage Oil Properties 
- Borage oil benefits atherosclerosis and contributes to lower cholesterol. Being rich in unsaturated fat. Prescription is used in case of hypercholesterolemia, hypertension and who have had cardiovascular problems.
- Since gamma-linolenic acid occurring molecules called prostagraldina s, the prostagraldinas are countless benefits to our health are precursors to the hormones that regulate body functions.
- Borage oil helps regulate the effects of hormones like estrogen and progesterone, is used as treatment of premenstrual syndrome.
- Borage oil has excellent properties used on the skin. It is emollient and skin softener.
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