Omega 3 supplementation was: Cannell on CLO

January 4, 2006

> What a crock. Fish oil can certainly have obvious short-term

> benefits, but in the long term, it's a disaster.

> Not only that, all the fish oil studies I've seen have been

> relatively short term, meaning they're not accounting for any

> long-term pro-inflammatory effects from heightened

> peroxidation. I'm sure has surveyed this area of the

> literature far more intensively than I have, though, so maybe

> he can shed some light on the issue.

Okay. I've seen this mentioned more and more here on the list and I just

have to ask for someone to point me to some support for this idea. An old

thread is fine. Goes against everything that I've encountered in the things

that I've read.

Counter-intuitive, also. Given that a regular supply of EPA and DHA has

been part of our dietary for all of our existence and the fact that it is

almost completely absent from available food today it seems to me that

lifetime supplementation with at least some quantity of long chain omega

three is crucial.

FWIW below is a copy of an email exchange that I had with Sally last year

when I was trying to figure out supplementation quantities during a

discussion with a member of another list:

[[[ identified above an average 150 pound human

was getting in micrograms, grams or IU as appropriate. Were the Eskimos

eating 10 grams of omega 3 per day? 100,000 IU vitamin A? How about the

Pacific Islanders?

As for the omega-3, Price did not study this, but 10 grams is too high. You

only want about 1.5% of calories as omega-3. For a 3000 calorie diet, this

would be about 45 kcal or 5 grams. This would be for the 18-carbon omega-3.

There are also the dlongated versions (DHA and EPA) and I would imagine that

2-3 grams of these would be optimal. Sally]]]

Ron

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