Fish Oil

“What else do you take? I take DHEA from fish oil. So is that omega-3? Omega-3. But we want to look at the DHA content. So my fish oil that I take contains, I'm getting about 1,000 milligrams a day of DHA.”

“that. But all of them have evidence for benefit. And it's not perfect evidence, but this is a place where there's been large long-term trials with thousands of people who have been given just fish oil. Some of them have shown significant benefits for heart attacks and other outcomes. Some of them have not.”

“change, turn genes on and off. And so, for example, fish oil lowering triglycerides happens through a genetic effect in the liver, the fatty acids going into liver and affecting the genes that produce triglycerides. And then lastly, and just as importantly as all the other ones, fatty acids are the precursors to a world of incredible”

“So this is a really well done study. And so, they looked at over three years as well. One of them was omega-3s from fish oil, not from LG or other things, just saying that's what it was. Not saying you can't get benefit from the other, but it's harder. Vitamin D3. And then the third part was actually the SHEP program, again, the simple home exercise program.”

“fish oil capsules or liquid can be beneficial for a number of different aspects of brain and body health and can enhance focus and cognitive ability.”

“a high quality omega-3 fatty acid fish oil and to ingest it in quantities sufficient enough to get above that one gram of EPA per day. Again, this is really important.”

“So again, this would be single ingredient supplement. I would say it's going to be a high quality omega-3 fatty acid, typically taken in the form of fish oil. Again, you have to decide based on your budget, etc.”

“Well, we got time. Third hour. We'll do the third hour. And I'll bring this up because an interesting study published about two months ago challenged the wisdom that omega-3 supplements, fish oil in particular, was good for the brain.”

“if you will, with whether they were taking fish oil or not and concluded that fish oil was of no benefit in reducing risk of Alzheimer's and in fact, may have actually slightly increased risk.”

“I mean, I've known for years that we should be taking DHA, fish oil, omega-3s in general, good for the brain, right? Right. It's been our messaging. And for me, it's still my messaging. Why was this study in the face of all of the studies demonstrating correlations between higher levels of DHA in particular and”

“high quality fish oil in a clear plastic container that's been sitting there, probably shipped in a hot truck or who knows what. How was it refined?”

“I couldn't agree with you more. I take an olive oil in the morning, I take phosphatidylcholine in the afternoons, and I also take a fish oil. So, I load up on the EPA and DHA. You know, there are plenty of other things that are not expensive that we should be thinking about, like B complex, a good B complex.”

“I was the first one to use fish oil capsules to treat lipid disorders. And then from there, I got involved with all the statin trials. It's been my passion is to be involved in clinical trials. And I still a cardiologist, did the usual stuff that cardiologists do, and then focused primarily on prevention.”

“we talk about from time to time, but I have a feeling you're going to add a lot of value to my somewhat limited knowledge, which is the most up-to-date thinking on the role of fish oils, DHA and EPA. But you want to talk about it through cardiovascular disease first or talk about it through Alzheimer's or both?”

“You have very limited capacity to convert that into the lyso-PC form. Yeah, absent another. Yeah. So you have to make this lyso-PC form, which you can do with either a fish-based oil or a krill-based oil. You can make lyso-PC DHA. So that's the next hopeful excitement around the DHA and brain health that I think needs to be further.”

“If you're eating, you know, healthy fish, which difficult these days, you can, you know, wild organic salmon. Fish has great omega-3s, but I take a mercury-free fish oil. I take Orthomega from orthomolecular. But these first four pathways are among 16 inflammatory. But when you look at all 16 pathways, if you were to take things that block NF-kappa-B, N-acetylcysteine, alpha-lipoic acid.”

“Okay. Something like fish oil, right? I would say that's not as critical because you can get that from Whole Foods, right? Something like that. Yeah, I'm a big fan of omega-food. I would say branch chains or essential amino acids.”

“And we give you some fish oil and SPMs, maybe a little aspirin when you've got your period. Like, let's find some other ways to deal with it than to take the oral contraceptive, which you have not received informed consent about, because it can trigger your clit by up to 20%.”

“You will also see things like omega-3. This is your common fish oil. Oh, this is interesting because this popped up on your labs as something we have to work on. Oh, my test. Yeah. We'll come back to that in a second. Okay. And then, of course, you've got melatonin, right?”

“What is low? What is high? What is off track based on blood work, right? We try to solve this through food. But what this oftentimes looks like is a high-quality multivitamin, oftentimes fish oil. Now you have performance accelerators on the other side of that question. This is when creatine can come in.”

“transmission and a lot of other neurotransmission and fish oil. So I've been taking a lot of precursors that are useful in neurotransmission.”

“tumor. So I started to take high doses of fish oil, and the tinnitus disappeared. Fish oil has an anti-inflammatory. So what I'm saying is that what I was getting, my tinnitus was due to the actual nerve being inflamed. And I could control that with fish oil. So I was very fortunate. And now I don't even know that I have tinnitus.”

“in bipolar disorder. There are several studies that have shown that supplementing with fish oil or omega-3 fatty acids at levels of, for instance, 9.6 grams of fish oil per day for four months, greatly reduced symptoms of bipolar depression compared to the control group, which received olive oil.”

“but doesn't contain as much of the omega-3 fatty acids and so forth. So 9.6 grams of fish oil per day over four months is a lot of fish oil to be ingesting on a given day. This was a double-blind study.”

“that's associated with bipolar disorder, that it's hard to imagine a scenario in which just talk therapy and fish oil and lifestyle interventions are going to completely suppress or treat bipolar disorder. People with bipolar disorder really need to consider the full picture of treatments, the drug treatments,”

“ago. I don't take any, I mean, I take plenty like fish oil, magnesium, all this other bullshit Trace gives me, but the, like the level of doping I know about, I don't know shit.”