Fish Oil Emails and Questions
Over 25,000 people read this blog every month. So it shouldn’t surprise you that we occasionally get a hate mail or two. Why keep the good stuff just for me? So I’ll share some with you. But fish oil hate mail!? Can you believe it? Most of you are super nice, with comments like: ‘LoveRead More
Cod Liver Oil – 3 Reasons to Avoid It And the rise of Fermented Cod Liver Oil (FCLO)
In early 2010, an environmental group sued several fish oil manufacturers for selling polluted fish oil. All the major TV news channels covered the stink. Every single channel re-worded the plaintiff’s press release without digging deeper. The late Paul Harvey would have dug deeper for ‘The rest of the story.‘ The products named in theRead More
JIF Peanut Butter with Omega-3 Fish Oil
Find out why this ‘good idea’ isn’t. Peanut butter with fish oil! What will they think of next?! Before writing this blog, I showed the new JIF Omega-3 Peanut Butter to a few people. Most of the older people I showed it to said something like ‘Why don’t you just eat some Tuna or Salmon,Read More
How to Buy The Best Fish Oil Supplements: Part 1 – Purity
5 Tips for Choosing The Best Fish Oil Criteria #1: Purity Purity means having a fish oil pill that is virtually free of Mercury and other heavy metals (Arsenic, Cadmium and Lead), Dioxins, PCBs and Furans. I’m not going to expand on WHY these chemicals are bad for you. The focus of this article isRead More
Fish Oil During Pregnancy
My wife is pregnant. With twins! We get excited and nervous when it’s time for our monthly doctor’s visit. We do absolutely everything we can to make sure our little bundles of joy are growing and healthy. You probably know the feeling. As a nutritionist who has been studying fish oil and Omega-3 for overRead More
Molecularly Distilled Fish Oil
Molecularly distilled fish oil is the most common type of fish oil. Here’s why: Crude fish oil has a lot of gunk. Gunk that we don’t like or need. Molecular distillation is a technology for getting rid of this ‘gunk,’ although there are newer more expensive purification technologies now. I spent three years of myRead More
How Much Fish Oil Should I Take?
That’s easy. You need up to 1600 mg of Omega-3 daily per the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Dietary Supplements. The two most common questions I get about fish oil are: Which brand of fish oil should I buy? How much fish oil should I take daily? Many labels say 1000Read More
Enteric Coated Fish Oil
What is Enteric Coated Fish Oil? Do you need it? Enteric coated fish oil does two things: It reduces fishy burps. Gross, I know. It protects the Omega-3 from harsh stomach acids. Stomach acids may destroy some of the Omega-3 in fish oil. Enteric coating prevents that.. Reducing fishy burps with enteric coated fish oilRead More
Fish Oil Dosage: How Much is Too Much Fish Oil?
You can never have too much wine chocolate. But how ’bout fish oil? Can you take too much? And what happens if you do? Everything you Need to Know About Fish Oil Dosage Part 1: Fish Oil Dosage: How Much Fish Oil Should you Take? Part 2: Fish Oil Dosage: A Practical Guide Part 3:Read More
Fish Oil Dosage: How Much Fish Oil Do You Need?
How to Get the Right Fish Oil Dosage If your bottle of fish oil says 1,000 mg on the front, don’t relax just yet! That’s the weight of the capsule, NOT the Omega-3 in it. FISH OIL DOSAGE TIP: 1,000 mg of Omega-3 and 1,000 mg of Fish Oil are not the same! Typically 1000Read More
