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I know that Omega 3 fish oil is supposed to be good for you. Study after study shows that it lowers LDL and improves HDL, and supposedly does good stuff for your triglycerides.
When you take it, though, your stomach acids break down the shell, and the stuff comes out.
Then it’s sloshing around in your stomach.
Then you belch, and if your mouth is closed, you smell the contents of your stomach, from the inside out
it’s a lot like jamming alewives in your sinuses. Make it stop, please, just make it stop.
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Try Krill Oil instead. A LOT easier on the innards with the same benefits.
Actually, the latest studies say fish oil is doing more harm than good.
Flaxseed oil, otoh, is pretty awesome. And no aftertaste. I’m pretty sure flaxseed and flaxoil are the 1-2 punch in the face of arterial disease. This week.
Maybe you could try it as a suppository.
So I could actually kill my co-workers? Theyre in enouhg trouble already.
Buck up Commando! It’s Operation Claymore! The Germans invaded Norway to get at the stock of fish-oil and the factories they used to make vitamins A and B for the Wehrmacht.
Eat a Tuna sandwich already!
I prefer my fish whole, fried or grilled.
Hey Og, have ya tried lemon?
What, fish flavored lemon?
The pills are ok to start addressing an urgent problem, eg. really high triglycerides, but for the long run you just want to eat more oily fish. Because, in the long run the pills will become bad juju.
Luckily, I love salmon and sardines.
I despise sardines and salmon is verboten in my house because the wife can’t stand the smell. Are Oysters OK? I like the tinned sliced oysters fine.
And I would rather eat those than take the damnec capsules. What’s the bad juju on the capsules? I can’t find any info on it.
Deb has been doing the fish thing for so long now, when I sprinkle a bit of lemon/butter sauce on her….damn she tastes good. (Get your minds outta the gutter…on her lips damn it!!) And being it’s Lent and all…ya gotta have the fish on Fridays!!
It makes your farts and belches smell? Sounds like a feature rather than a bug. It may attract cats but it gets the dog out of the room.
Flaxseed is another good source of omega-3. There’s also substantial omega-3 in walnuts.
The other major source is fatty fish: salmon, tuna, halibut, snapper, scallops, shrimp, cod. Cold-water fish supposedly has more. I dunno about where you are but all these fresh are expensive at my local market.
There is some omega-3 in canned tuna but not much. The processing removes a lot of the oil; most canned tuna is cooked twice and so loses most of the benefit.
Look at the capsules you’re taking. How old are they? Fish oil goes rancid pretty fast and if your capsules have been sitting around the house for a while they may not be good. Just getting a fresh bottle may solve this problem.
You can also try freezing the capsules and taking them in frozen form; that way they will most likely break up in your intestines and not in your stomach. That works for some people.
Upping your intake of some veggies may also be useful. “The first reaction with vegetables is that they don’t contain any fat whatsoever, but there are several types that are sources of omega-3 fatty acids. Boiled cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli and brussels sprouts are vegetables that contain higher levels of omega-3s. While they hold between .17 and .34 g of omega-3, fish, nuts and seeds are still much better choices. However, selecting these vegetables can add to your daily intake. Other vegetables are spinach, kale, romaine lettuce and collard and turnip greens.”
You should be getting the bulk of your omega-3 from food sources anyway, better for you than pills, supposedly.
Hope this helps.
Jenny
Take them before you eat, that keeps the fish funk down. At least until it works its way out the other end….
Another good source of omega-3 that rarely gets attention is grass-fed beef. Beef raised on normal pasture instead of grain is much higher in omega-3 and omega-6. I also think it’s tastier and more tender, but that may be personal bias.
Same goes for pastured poultry. Pastured chicken is higher in omega-3 and so are the eggs (not to mention tastier).
What your food is fed makes a huge difference in what nutrition you gain from your food.
Kind of reminds me of Red on That 70’s show, complaining the food his wife served him was what food eats.
I LOOVE me some grain fed critter. That is good to know.
We use canned sardines for a source. I hate the half burp puke up in the mouth so I know pills won’t make the grade.
I loves me some canned fish. I eat at least one tin of kipper snacks a day. Never tried to figger out how much omega fatty acrids are in it, it just tastes good. The missus found a particularly tasty and dirt cheap brand at Wally World. Polar. Tastier than King Oscar and 1/3 the price for more fish. There’s a drugstore chain here that sells canned sardines on special @ 69c a can fairly often. I usually by $20 worth and feast. Cheap treats. sometines I mash ’em up with the juice from the can, add some dried minced onion, diced dill pickle and some mayo to make sammiches. Keeps people at arm’s length and I loves the sammiches. It’s a win-win. The farts’d kill a Navy Seal at 40 meters, too. Dried onion is lethal.
Gerry N.
Gerry N.
Anything you take in pill form rather than getting from whole food turns into a net negative after a while. You cannot beat Mother Nature, ever.
If you insist upon taking fish oil, take the liquid. You will know by the smell if it’s started to go rancid. lol
Ah, I thought you had heard something I had not.
I had read a study a while back, where and when escapes me (damned dysfunctional memory circuits), but the gist of it was that after approximately one year of fish oil supplementation, the benefits decreased and started becoming liabilities. If I could remember anything about when/where I had read it, I’d link you to it.
I wish you could find that study — I’m in the VITAL study and supposed to be taking this stuff for the next five years!
If any of you would like to participate go here: http://www.vitalstudy.org/
I think I found it. http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v56/n6/full/1601342a.html
I had recalled the time span incorrectly, but yeah. As far as I know, this is the only study involving fish oil in which the participants were followed for more than a year.
Mostly what this seems to say is that men who have already had heart attacks will most likely die of another heart attack and there’s nothing in diet that will change it. :(
I guess that’s why they’re doing the VITAL study — to see if supplementation will have any effect on the general population to prevent heart attack, stroke, etc.
Jenny
Yep, I know this study was gender limited, but they did find that specifically the group taking fish oil pills had an increased rate of all-cause death, above that of the general public. I think sudden cardiac death was also notably higher.
I’ll have to find some alert moments to re-read it.