Borage Oil GLA 240 mg

Borage — Borago officinalis, the bristly blue-flowered herb that Pliny called the plant that makes a man merry — produces a seed oil richer in gamma-linolenic acid than any other common botanical source. Evening primrose runs around 9% GLA; black currant seed around 16%. Borage reaches 20 to 24%.

GLA sits one step downstream of linoleic acid in the omega-6 pathway. The body is supposed to make it, using an enzyme called delta-6-desaturase, but that conversion is the slow step, and it is easily impeded — by age, by alcohol, by low magnesium or zinc, by a diet heavy in trans fats. Supplying GLA directly steps past that bottleneck.

From there GLA elongates to dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid, the precursor to the series-1 prostaglandins, which participate in the normal regulation of inflammatory signaling and in maintaining the skin's barrier lipids. It is a structural nutrient as much as a functional one.

Each softgel supplies 240 mg of GLA. Free of corn, soy, yeast, wheat, egg, dairy, and other common food and chemical allergens.

60 softgels.

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