Discover the incredible health benefits of olive oil and how it can enhance your well-being. Packed with healthy fats like poly and monounsaturated fats, olive oil helps balance hormones and boosts your body's natural fat-burning ability. The omega-3 fatty acids in olive oil are essential for daily functions such as hormone creation, artery health, and preventing heart disease, dementia, depression, and diabetes. Rich in antioxidant polyphenols and Vitamin E, olive oil has potent anti-inflammatory properties. Additionally, incorporating olive oil into your diet aids in the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins like A, D, E, and K, giving your body a nutrient boost.
HEALTH BENEFITS OF OLIVE OIL
- HEALTHY FATS (POLY AND MONOUNSATURATED VERSUS SATURATED): help balance hormones, boost your bodys natural fat burning ability
- OMEGA 3s: These fatty acids are essential for many of our bodies’ daily functions
- create hormones
- clear plaque from arteries
- lower blood pressure and triglycerides
- prevent heart disease, dementia, depression and diabetes
- ANTI-INFLAMMATORY: Rich in antioxidant polyphenols and Vitamin E
- NUTRIENT BOOSTING: Using olive oil in your diet helps your body absorb fat soluble vitamins like A, D, E, and K
AVOID THESE OILS they are highly processed, refined, inflammatory, and high in saturated trans fats:
- CANOLA/RAPESEED
- SUNFLOWER
- CORN
- SOYBEAN
- PALM
- SAFFLOWER
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN AN OLIVE OIL:
ORGANIC: Pesticides and herbicides are widely known carcinogens and have also been linked to depression, anxiety, asthma, ADHD and Parkinson’s.
EXTRA VIRGIN: This ensures its unrefined
COLD PRESSED/EXPELLER PRESSED: This means its pressed mechanically and doesn't use heat or chemicals to extract the oil from ripe olives
SINGLE ORIGIN: Ensures that it is pure and not a blend of oils and ensures the best growing conditions, harvesting times to yield a superior quality olive oil
LOW ACID: The lower the acidity of an olive oil, the richer in Omega 3s
* MYTH BUSTER: When using high quality olive oil, you don’t need to worry about smoke point. High quality olive oil is very stable when heated and can
be used to bake, sauté and even fry up to 410°
SKIN BENEFITS OF OLIVE OIL:
HYDRATION: Rich in squalene and vitamin E to help skin absorbent retain moisture
EXFOLIATING: Olive oil contains alpha hydroxy acids or AHAs that stimulate the shedding of dead skin cells and encourage the growth of new skin cells
ANTI-INFLAMMATORY: Antioxidants help soothe and calm irritated skin, helping with skin issues like psoriasis, rosacea, eczema and acne
ANTI-AGING: Vitamin E helps protect against free radicals and reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles