Flax benefits are primarily due to the important nutrition from flaxseed's omega 3, fiber, protein and flax hull lignans.

The health benefits of flaxseed will vary for different people based on what nutrients each person's body may be lacking.

When you provide your body with the nutrients it needs, your body is able to better heal itself.

3 Tbs of Omega 3 Golden Flax Seed gives you:

• As much Omega 3 as 1 pound of fish
  
• Protein -10 grams
  
• Fiber - Gives you HALF of your daily requirements of fiber (the amount many people are only eating in a day)
  
• Flax Hull Lignans - 800x more lignans than any other food on the planet! Lignans help to fight cancer, inflammation, heart disease and even get rid of Hot Flashes among other benefits!
  

A Summary of Flax Health Benefits:

Flax Helps Bad Cholesterol -Heart Disease

The fiber, omega 3 and lignans in flaxseed help heal the arteries and the blood circulatory system while moving toxins and cholesterol out of the body, which helps a person decrease their elevated bad cholesterol level. Read more about Flax seed and Cholesterol.

Flax can help with Weight Loss

The Omega 3 in flax helps tell your brain you are full, while the protein and fiber take your body a long time to digest -so, you are actually fuller for longer! As part of a balanced diet and an exercise program, flaxseed can make a huge difference in your process to lose weight and helping prevent cravings and munchies! Read more about Weight Loss and Flax.

Flax Helps Diabetes/Stabilize Blood Sugar

Not only is flax a low glycemic food, but flax omega 3 helps tell your brain you are satiated while the fiber and protein give your body more energy for a longer time helping regulate and stabilize blood sugars. Read more about Flax for Diabetics.

Flax helps decrease Inflammation

Omega 3 essential fatty acids have been studied for their properties in decreasing inflammation. Lignans also have also been shown in studies to have a powerful role in decreasing inflammation helping the body heal. Flax can help with inflammatory disorders such as ASTHMA, ALLERGIES, ARTHRITIS, SINUSITIS, etc.

Flax is a Brain Food

The brain needs Omega 3 to be able to do it's every day work. Omega 3 is an essential fatty acid that your body cannot make -you must get it through eating a balanced diet (not baked, cooked or processed food).

Omega 3 oil is essential for children in development and is often neglected. Omega 3 is very important for prevention of Alzheimer's and Dementia. Essential Omega 3 oil can help with Depression, Sleeping, ADHD, Difficulty Sleeping, etc.

Most of our diets are made up of cooked, baked and processed foods and we simply are not getting enough Omega 3 in our diets and our brains are suffering in many ways. It is no wonder things like Depression, ADHD, Difficulty Sleeping, etc are on the rise. Read more about Brain Omega 3 Flax.

Flax helps Prevent Cancer

Excellent studies on Flax Lignans showing they help to prevent and fight cancer. Lignans help to protect and heal the body. After Skin Cancer, Prostate Cancer is the most common cancer in mean and Breast Cancer is the most common cancer for women. Studies done show that flaxseed and lignans can help fight breast cancer and prostate cancer.

As always more research is needed on flax hull lignans, but it is encouraging that flax is researched at all because it is a food and not an expensive pharmaceutical.

Flax helps relieve + eliminate Hot Flashes

Flax Lignans are an excellent and natural plant source of estrogen. Flax Hull LIGNANS and Isoflavones may be an alternative/supplement to Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). Flax can relieve hot flashes, night sweats and promote vaginal moisture, without side effects of HRT. Many women have been able to decrease and/or completely get rid of Hot Flashes.

Flax can help the Digestive System

Flax soluble and insoluble fiber gently moves waste and toxins out of the body while preventing constipation and providing constipation relief. Flax mucilage fiber has healing and soothing properties to decrease bowel irritation with IBS, CROHN'S DISEASE, DIVERTICULOSIS and DIVERTICULITIS. Lignans help to decrease inflammation and heal the digestive system.

Read more about Flax benefits for Constipation Relief, about Flax Fiber including soluble fiber, and about how food is digested.

Flax helps with Healthy Skin

Flax Omega 3 helps decrease and heal ACNE, PSORIASIS, ECZEMA, and DRY SKIN.

Flax helps to boost the Immune System

Flax Lignans can help the body heal itself. Omega 3 in flaxseed has many healing properties as well. When you give your body the nutrition it needs, your body is better able to heal itself. Flax can also help with FIBROMYALGIA.

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There are many flax benefits and flaxseed is an economical food that offers you great nutrition!

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