Alatau or Ala Too (from Turkic languages: "motley mountain") is a generic name of a number of mountain ranges in Central Asia, characterized by interleaving areas of vegetation, scattered rocks and snows. The Turkic languages are a group of related languages that are spoken by a variety of people distributed across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China with estimated 100-130 million native speakers. ... The most general definition of a mountain range is a group of mountains bordered by lowlands. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Vegetation is a general term for the plant life of an area; it refers to the ground cover provided by plants, and is by far the most abundant biotic element of the biosphere. ...
One of the main factors that interferes with n-3 conversion is too much n-6 in the diet, which is the case in the diets commonly eaten by people living in developed nations.
Too high a ratio of n-3 to n-6, such as 3.5 or 4 to 1 found in flax and flax oil, can lead to n-6 deficiency, with symptoms of deterioration that can harm all cells, tissues, glands, and organs.
ALA is very fragile to destruction by light, oxygen (air), and heat, and must therefore be protected from these influences.