Posted on 08/31/2009 11:16:43 AM PDT by decimon
Never mind - got my answer. Thanks for the info.
Three words... Cod Liver Oil. You can buy it plain for “real men” or flavored.
Fish oils pills can and often do turn rancid and change to trans fats.
Then, according to this paper you and probably the majority of us who eat fish three or more times per week are over medicating or perhaps taking toxic doses.
If you google DHA dosages it’s common to recommend 2 to 3gms per day.
The case of aspirin may be similar. One would think that since heart disease seems to be a process of inflammation in the walls of the arteries, and since aspirin is a potent anti-inflammatory medicine, one would think that more is better, however researchers have found that there is a balance and that an 80mg is actually optimum, and there is no increased benefit the more you take.
(please see: http://cme.medscape.com/viewarticle/556309 )
So perhaps it’s the same with DHA. On the other hand, who the h*ll knows.
Also, I didn’t read the whole article, the DHA was given as a supplement or the equivalent in food? DHA is recommended together with Selenium, and Vit E. Was that brought up in the article?
I picked this up at a used gar lot...
Wiping coffee from my screen.
Check out Heart Scan Blog by Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist who has been reducing atherosclerotic plaque in his patients. His recommendations are: 1. elimination of all wheat, cornstarch & sugar in the diet; 2. high fat intake; 3. Slo-Niacin; 4. 3,000 mg/day fish oil.
http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/
I take 2400 mg a day.
Hmmmm.
I read my bottle 'facts' after reading your comment. Here's what mine says:
Natural Fish Oil 2400 mg (2 softgels) --Total Omega 3 Fatty Acids (with EPA and DHA) 720 mg.
Looks like we have the same, I'm taking two softgels daily.
Except that mine lists the contents of one softgel. I've also been taking two daily. No obvious effect other than cats following me. ;-)
Looks like another twist on a low-carb diet. I did very well on such a diet years ago. Lost my fat and both some low-glycemic (High-glycemic? A roller coaster, at any rate) and arthritic-like conditions.
LOL. Click on my name and you'll see why the cats don't bother me.
200 mg is very easy to get. A serving of fish, or one capsule of 1000mg Fish oil would be enough. Fish Oils are probably the most effective supplement sold today. One of the few that really have alot of research backing them up. I take 6 capsules per day currently, but I am currently on a diet that happens to be low in fat, so these fish oils help me get the fat that I need.
Do seagulls circle your house? ;-)
I have used 1000 mg fish oil caps but I’m now taking two 1300 mg capsules of flaxseed oil. You can get the Flaxseed oil caps at Sams Club or Costco.
EPA/DHA has health benefits in addition to heart health issues. Health is more than heart health.
200 mg is PUNY.
I bought some Smart Balance 50/50 Butter Blend. It has some flaxseed oil.
According to the label, a serving is one tablespoon. One serving has 320mg of ALA Omega-3 and 32mg of EPA/DHA Omega-3. Not that I actually understand that but it does look good.
What's the Charles Atlas dose?
“What’s the Charles Atlas dose?
Charles Atlas would INSIST on vitamin D
blood levels at the optimum: between 50-99 ng/mL,
with no sand kicked around.
ampu
Heh, not quite, but the fish burps can be horrible. I sometimes substitute a fish oil gel with a flax seed oil gel..
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