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Many people are suffering from cholesterol problems; everyone is worried what to do. In most cases you can control your cholesterol problem by the foods you eat or avoid. Now we are going to discuss about fish oil, one of the natural remedies to control cholesterol problem and also known as an important active ingredient in weight loss supplements.

Two known types of cholesterol are recognized, one is bad cholesterol and other is good cholesterol. Bad cholesterol causes very serious problems related to heart and good cholesterol eliminates bad cholesterol. It has been observed that fish oil has some properties which boosts good cholesterol and reduces the bad cholesterol.

The people with high cholesterol have an increased level of triglyceride in the bloodstream. High triglycerides level is one of the main sign of developing heart diseases.

Even now studies are being done to understand the effectiveness of fish oil in reducing cholesterol which in turn protects from heart health as well as heart diseases. Moreover people who eat fatty fish daily have lower risks of heart diseases.

Bad cholesterol is known as bad because it sticks to the wall of arteries when it gets oxidized. When it happen the size of artery wall narrows and reduces the blood flow. If it continues, it blocks the arteries which ultimately results in heart attack. Other name of bad cholesterol is LDL cholesterol. Good cholesterol is  known as High Density Lipoprotein (HDL ). It is known as good as it transfer the lipoprotein or cholesterol directly from the artery that surround the heart and moves it to the liver.

A very important point is that, fish oil boosts the good cholesterol level and is very essential for the body. In other words more cholesterol is being moved away from heart preventing heart diseases.

Presently researchers are unable to describe how fish oil improves heart health; however the medical world accepts that fish oil is beneficial. The food and drug administration has confirmed that omega 3 fatty acids are good for heart health and omega 3s are obtained from fish oils.

We should use fish oil although there is no explanation of how it works on cholesterol, as there are no apparent side effects observed.

Gaucher disease has become a serious treat to the community nowadays. Even though there are several available treatments to it, the main issue is the cost. Not many people afford to pay the treatment cost. Therefore, looking for an alternative cheap and effective treatment is the main interest of the researchers.

One of the ‘proven working’ treatment is by using enzyme theraphy or specifically using Cerezyme (TM). Amongst the step used in the enzyme theraphy is by using the beta-glucosidase in the inhibitory process. One novel idea is, if we can produce or design a new cheap enzyme to run the inhibitory process by some prosess in the active site. But another novel idea just pop up if we used the reverse process of designing the inhibitor rather than designing the new enzyme.

The idea seems to be good. If we can design such a strong inhibitor (or just search for it), we can reduce the amount of enzyme use for the inhibitory process as well as the amount of inhibitor; thus can reduce the overall cost. We shall see the progress of searching those cheap enzyme and new inhibitors development in shorter time by the advancement of the medical research now. Hopefully those research can be done faster, because the need of efficient and low cost treatment is the priority nowadays.