It’s hard to imagine that one of the of the world’s most serious health problems, visceral (gut) fat, (dubbed the killing fat because of its association with heart disease and diabetes) can be reduced, if not eliminated, by simply ingesting a small amount of oil extracted from a tiny sea organism Calanus finmarchicus found off the coast of Norway,—a sea organism whose phenomenal health benefits lay dormant, actually ignored by leading scientists, until a Norwegian outlier, Dr. Jan Raa, decided to look deeper.
What he discovered would shock the scientific community and contribute to Dr. Raa earning Norway’s most prestigious award, the Commander of St. Olav, presented by the King himself! Here’s how it all began: