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Krill oil is one of the most talked about dietary supplements available today. Why? Because pure krill oil helps improve your health in two simple ways:

1. Helps increase your intake of omega-3 fatty acids
   
2. Helps increase your intake of antioxidants

Omega-3 fats, as you know, are essential fatty acids that promote good health while antioxidants are powerful nutrients that fight free radicals and help prevent damage from oxidation.

But before you learn more about krill oil benefits...

What Exactly is Krill Oil?

Krill oil is the natural oil derived from krill, small shrimp-like crustaceans that serve as food for whales, the world's largest mammals. A blue whale eats up to 8,000 pounds of krill each day during feeding season.

Along with plankton, krill make up the largest biomass on earth. They're also one of the most easily renewable food resources available and an excellent nutritional source from an environmental perspective.

Krill has actually been harvested as a food for both humans and domesticated animals since the 1800s, so eating krill isn't really something new.

However, one of the most important things you need to know about krill oil is not all krill oil are the same.

Omega-3 Fats and Antioxidants: Krill Oil's Dynamic Duo

Antarctic krill oil is derived from krill found in the waters of Antarctica. These red-pinkish, semi-translucent crustaceans deliver omega-3 fats in the form of phospholipids, which bring these healthy fatty acids directly to your cells. Phospholipids are the building blocks of your cell membranes and protect them from free radicals.

Antarctic krill oil also contains phosphatidyl choline, a phospholipid partially composed of choline, which is important in brain development, learning and memory. Choline is also the precursor for acetylcholine, which sends nerve signals to the brain, and for trimethylglycine, which helps protect your liver.

Fish oil and inferior types of krill oil deliver omega-3 fats not as phospholipids but in the less-beneficial form of free triglycerides.

Also, unlike fish oil and inferior krill oil, pure Antarctic krill oil also contains astaxanthin, a carotenoid antioxidant that's over 300 times more powerful than vitamins A and E, 47 times more powerful than lutein, and 34 times more powerful than CoQ10!

Besides its excellent delivery of omega-3 fats and potent antioxidant content, studies show that Neptune krill oil also provides excellent support for blood lipid health, emotional and physical relief from normal PMS (premenstrual syndrome), significant support for joints, and helps promote healthy skin.

The optimal intake of omega-3 fats and antioxidants have always been one of nutrition expert Joseph Mercola's main recommendations. That is why Dr. Mercola highly recommends New and Improved Krill Oil. Mercola regularly takes New and Improved Krill Oil because it delivers all the benefits of pure Antarctic krill in the form of capliques (two-piece hard shell capsules sealed with a band) instead of the usual gel caps to increase the krill oil's purity, cleanliness and resistance to tampering.

As if that weren't enough to trump ordinary fish oil, New and Improved Krill Oil has no fishy aftertaste and doesn't lead to reflux or belching of fish breath. More importantly, even at high dosages, no adverse side effects have been recorded.

A pure and high-quality source of optimal nutrition, New and Improved Krill Oil is one of Mercola's personal favorites. Make it yours too and take your health into a whole new level!

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