Re: Digest Number 7521

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> Sat May 1, 2010 10:28 am (PDT)

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> I like carlsons too but I hear dr sears has some really high quality

> stuff...but it is a bit to  high for my budget and I heard the tastes is not

> as good as carlsons

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> PWC

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> Carlsons is good and Pharmex is good as well.

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> Karla

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> I went to our local organic store and asked, and the clerks had just had a

> special seminar about it the night before and were delighted to inform me. It

> turns out that the molecularly filtered brands break apart the fatty acids as

> they do the filtering so that they are less fully absorbed.

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> One up-market brand reassembles the fatty acids to their molecular Œspine¹ so

> that it can be better absorbed. That is Nordic Naturals, which also is tested

> to be the purist with less than 10 parts per billion mercury or other

> contaminant (other Norwegian brands are only required to test to 75 ppb, and

> there is no guaranty that they do that for their products sold in the US).

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> New Chapter, an Alaskan brand, is highly selective in the fish used, and tests

> for heavy metals and agro chemicals, but because not molecularly filtered, the

> entire fatty acid is present, as well as the entire spectrum of fatty acids

> present in fish oil (not just DHA and EPA), and their marketing slant is that

> this is supposed to be more helpful.

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> I am writing here about this because I think parents consciously trying

> through diet etc to help their children would have the inside word as to

> whether any of this matters, as to whether your doctors or parents are making

> a point about which brand is more or less helpful based on their experience.

> If you could pass this question back to other groups and to your doctors that

> would be incredibly helpful.

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> Thanks so much,

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> son

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