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Pretty simple questions on fish oil. How much do you guys take, and what brands/types are you using? What's the "best bang for the buck" ie. cheapest for the greatest amount of omega-3s?
Cheapest isn't always the best. Especially in regards to fats that oxidize easy and then do the opposite of what you want them to do.
I take about 1000mg dha and 500mg EPA daily
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I know cheapest isn't always best, but within reasonable quality, why not just buy something that does the same job without having to pay a fair amount more for just the brand and maybe that extra 5% quality.
Interesting. Then what brands are considered "decent"? Would stuff like blackmore's be considered good quality? Or do you really have to get the practitioner brands that i've never heard of. By the way are all the fish oil capsules pretty much the same (1g of fish oil yielding 300mg of omega-3s, 180mg of epa and 120mg of dha). I tried looking for some higher concentration ones but couldn't find any despite looking at a number of brands.
Most of the benifits come from DHA.
EPA is higher doses supress the immune system.
Thats the jist of it.
Its been covered before, so Im not going to go into detail.
Did you know where I could get anymore info on this?
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Not all of the immune-suppressing effects of fish oil are due to oxidation, however. Incorporation of certain fatty acids into cell membranes affects second-messenger systems (molecular signalling systems within cells) that can modify gene expression. An experiment that studied the individual effects of EPA and DHA found that EPA reduced natural killer (NK) cell activity and cell-mediated immune response, but that DHA does not. This study concluded that the immune-suppressing effects of fish oil are mainly due to EPA, not DHA [*40].
[*40] "Eicosapentaenoic and Docosahexaenoic Acids Alter Rat Spleen
Leukocyte Fatty Acid Composition and Prostaglandin E2 Production
But Have Different Effects on Lymphocyte Functions and Cell-Mediated
Immunity" L.D. Peterson, et.al. LIPIDS 33(2):171-180 (1998)
And here's the full article if you're really interested: DHA FOR HEARTS AND MINDS
Fadi.
I asked the question "does EPA suppress the immune system" to my nutrition lecturer and she stated something along the lines of "yes it does, though it targets the white blood cells that the body does not recognize (foreign) and helps eliminate these cells which is why people with auto-immune diseases are given high dosages of EPA. And that it doesn't suppress your immune system to the point for you to be more susceptible to infections etc. "... Hopefully nOObs can give his further input as he might of remembered more than what I did when she said it.
Thanks a lot for the article and response as well.
Might need to give that article a read tomorrow.
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