[KeyWest]

http://www.berkeleywellness.com/html/ds/dsFishOil.php

info on fish oil and immune system.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Very true -- but it MUST be from wild fish... not farm-raised fish. They basically feed farmed fish dog food (kibble) making the farmed fish no higher in Omega 3 than the beef or chicken we eat these days (except for people lucky enough to find grass-raised meat).

[ScottM1968]

The US Food and Drug Administration suggests we all get up to 3 grams of Omega-3 oil daily.

This equates to 10 1-gram fish oil concentrate pills (only 300 mg of each are Omega-3's).

The report, dated September 2004, suggested that more than that amount could reduce clotting and have the other effects of which you and I are speaking.

Since a serving of salmon has 1 gram of Omega-3's, one would need three servings a day of salmon (the most Omega-3 dense fish) to meet the point at which the caution occurs.

Therefore, going beyond that amount is where the risk comes in.

I don't know anyone who would be going much beyond three helpings of salmon each and every day, do you?

http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/2004/NEW01115.html