Fish Oil (Omega-3)
LikeAnOcean
Posts: 7,718
Has anyone tried it? I'm taking it mostly for allergies, dry skin and anxiety.
I stopped taking flaxseed because the body has to convert the ALA in flaxseed to EPA and DHA, the stuff you need, but is VERY inefficient at it. Generally only 5 to 25% of it gets converted and only women can convert it better in that range. Some people can't convert any of it. Fish Oil is already EPA and DHA with no conversion by the body needed.
DHA is better for smarts and memory. EPA is better for skin, anxiety and depression since it controls communication between cells.
Apparently it takes 3 to 4 months to get the full benefits and up to 6 to 9 months to peak.. Someone mentioned they saw benefits after a couple of days, but that had to be psychological since the stuff takes 72 hours just to get into your blood stream.. and then it is slowly used by building new cells which takes months to fully benefit from because the old cells have a 3 to 4 month life span.. Brain must restructure too, which takes months.
Good signs so far though..
I stopped taking flaxseed because the body has to convert the ALA in flaxseed to EPA and DHA, the stuff you need, but is VERY inefficient at it. Generally only 5 to 25% of it gets converted and only women can convert it better in that range. Some people can't convert any of it. Fish Oil is already EPA and DHA with no conversion by the body needed.
DHA is better for smarts and memory. EPA is better for skin, anxiety and depression since it controls communication between cells.
Apparently it takes 3 to 4 months to get the full benefits and up to 6 to 9 months to peak.. Someone mentioned they saw benefits after a couple of days, but that had to be psychological since the stuff takes 72 hours just to get into your blood stream.. and then it is slowly used by building new cells which takes months to fully benefit from because the old cells have a 3 to 4 month life span.. Brain must restructure too, which takes months.
Good signs so far though..
Post edited by Unknown User on
0
Comments
More importantly, congratulations on your 5,000th post!
Embarassingly enough, I lost over 10,000 posts when the board changed last year.
Did you see results right away or did it take weeks? Months?
It helps a great deal with cognitive issues.
And, I noticed I "felt" rather soon after beginning to take it (within a few days).
but he told me to take flax seed, fish oil, and a multivitamin..and thats what i've been doing..am i overdoing it?
Not sure, but I thought flax oil and fish oil were both Omega 3 supplements - do you need to take both?
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
what can be bad in large doses is omega-6, which are in things like nuts and corn. it can be beneficial but not in large doses. it promotes things like blood clotting and inflammation which is beneficial for animals when they hibernate but not as much as is in our typical lifestyles.
what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
Flaxseed gives you ALA, which can be converted by the body into what it needs, but the body can be inefficiant at it, so you need to take a lot of it, if it works. Fish oil gives you EPA and DHA already converted from ALA, so its more direct. The advantage of Flaxseed is it turns into other good fats the body needs, but only gives you little, if any of the important EPA and DHA you need.
So Fish oil is better, but flaxseed can help with other things and only some of what fish oil does if taken in large amounts.
Let's see if it works.
http://www.essortment.com/all/whatisflaxsee_pfy.htm
Of my innocence... got back my inner sense...
Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
The bottle of flax oil softgels that I got several months ago will run out in 2 days. I bought it in a sale on Barbara Watson's website. The label reads: "Renew Life FlaxSmart Certified Organic Cold Pressed Flax Oil, an omega 3-6-9 Flax oil with lignans and lipase, the enzyme that digests oils." Each day, I would poke one of the gels with a pin and eat the linseed oil inside.
.......Anyway......I have no money to buy any supplements of any kind. The only money I've had for food all month is the $32 I've made selling my apartment building's recycleables. I always have a bag of flax seeds on hand because my pet mice thrive on them. The seeds are dirt cheap at Whole Foods Market. I recall that a few years ago, I tried adding ground flax to some pastry I was baking. I no longer bake at all (being allergic to both eggs and soy makes finding ingredients too much hassle.) Is ground flax edible if sprinkled on cereal? Toast? Refried beans?
I am not insulted at all. Much to the ire of several other members here, I embrace my socio-economic status with disturbing relish: I chose to give up my extremely-low-rent housing in Rhode Island in December of '7. I moved back here, home, the City Of Angels the LOVE OF MY LIFE which quite simply makes me happy :P . So now most of my income goes to rent.
In a recent thread, I broke down the average of $1150 that I make in a month, and explained that I spend $150 on organic food and $50 on water purification, supplements, coffee, and green tea. Due to almost zero in eBay sales so far this month, I am making less than my average. I am not eligible for food stamps (I have made sure!) In the mid 90s, I received food stamps. I got between 2 and 15 dollars every month. It was lovely. I reeeeeaaaaaaly know how to stretch a dollar. Sometimes I have no money, other times I'm almost middle class. Life is bouncy.
Wheeee!
You have to read the label VERY carefully, but there are brands that are purified. Be warned, Nature Made is not purified. Target sells one in a blue bottle that is. Also be warned, fish oil burps are gross! I also find it to be a bit of a pain in the ass to take it 3 times a day, so I only do it twice.
"do gay midgets come out of the cupboard"
~CreedDisease~
10/27/06
If I were you, I'd talk to my doctor. No supplement is worth getting sick over.
"do gay midgets come out of the cupboard"
~CreedDisease~
10/27/06
What they did not discuss was fish oil from free swimming deep cold water fish. Big corporations selling the common brands use factory farmed fish. Here's a blurb about fish farms:
"David Carpenter, MD, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany and publisher of a major study in the journal Science on contamination in fish, gives us the scoop:
The problem: Nature didn’t intend for salmon to be crammed into pens and fed soy, poultry litter, and hydrolyzed chicken feathers. As a result, farmed salmon is lower in vitamin D and higher in contaminants, including carcinogens, PCBs, brominated flame retardants, and pesticides such as dioxin and DDT. According to Carpenter, the most contaminated fish come from Northern Europe, which can be found on American menus. “You could eat one of these salmon dinners every 5 months without increasing your risk of cancer,” says Carpenter, whose 2004 fish contamination study got broad media attention. “It’s that bad.” Preliminary science has also linked DDT to diabetes and obesity, but some nutritionists believe the benefits of omega-3s outweigh the risks. There is also concern about the high level of antibiotics and pesticides used to treat these fish. When you eat farmed salmon, you get dosed with the same drugs and chemicals.
The solution: Switch to wild-caught Alaska salmon. If the package says fresh Atlantic, it’s farmed. There are no commercial fisheries left for wild Atlantic salmon.
Budget tip: Canned salmon, almost exclusively from wild catch, can be found for as little as $3 a can."
Apparently it takes 3 to 4 months to get the full benefits and up to 6 to 9 months to peak.. Someone mentioned they saw benefits after a couple of days, but that had to be psychological since the stuff takes 72 hours just to get into your blood stream.. and then it is slowly used by building new cells that takes months to fully benefit from, since old cells have a 3 to 4 month life span.. Brain must restructure too, which takes months.
Good signs so far though.
PJ - Auckland 2009; Alpine Valley1&2 2011; Man1, Am'dam1&2, Berlin1&2, Stockholm, Oslo & Copenhagen 2012; LA, Oakland, Portland, Spokane, Calgary, Vancouver, Seattle 2013; Auckland 2014
EV - Canberra, Newcastle & Sydney 1&2 2011
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
Does it really work? The Flaxseed???
Everything I've read online suggests human bodies have a hard time converting it, if any of it, to the chemicals it needs. Fish oil works better because its already in the chemical form the body needs.
2003 Mansfield: July 2
2004 Boston: Sept 28 & 29
2005 Montreal: Sept 15
2006 Boston: May 24 & 25
2008 Hartford: June 27, Mansfield: June 28,
2010 Boston: May 17
2013 Worcester: Oct 15, Hartford: Oct 25,
2016 Hampton: April 18, Raleigh: April 20 (cancelled), Columbia: April 21. Quebec: May 5. Boston (Fenway): August 7
EV Solo: Boston 8/2/08, Boston 6/16/11
Doctors put me an anti-histamines and all sorts of crap that didn't work, so I took it apon myself to find something that would work.. I started taking the suppliment Quecertin, which dramatically helped. Average size pills that I had to cut in half at first, but after a few weeks I could swallow whole.. then came the fish pills which also got stuck at first, but now after the three weeks I don't even feel them go down.
I definitely recommend the Quecertin for anyone with allergies. Not only did it get rid of most of them, but it gives you an energy boost. I also feel less tired when I don't get much sleep.. and now the Fish Pills are making me super-human!
Get the ones from Trader Joes. They don't smell at all.. you can break them open and drink them if they don't go down.. plus they are very high in DHA and EPA per capsule.
They're good for your skin, hair, eyes, anxiety, depression, bones, memory, immune sytem, allergies, acne, slows aging.. really everything, but will take months to fully work, so start now!