08-11-2013, 15:28
Yes... Your salmon DOES have to be wild. But who DOESN'T know that? But if you get wild caught salmon twice a week your EPA and DHA levels will be more than satisfied and perfectly balanced. It's the ONLY kind of fish with levels that high and in such perfect balance. Even once a week ought to do it for most women, who tend to weigh less than 150 pounds. Men who weigh less than that also should only need to eat a single small serving of salmon once a week. Only people who weigh more should eat a small serving of salmon twice a week.
Also, NO! Cold pressed aka filtered is the best! Molecularly distilled is only better if you're dealing with a bad source to begin with, and then ONLY if they don't put things back in with synthetics that they stripped away, which too many of them do. Like the Solgar.
Carlson's uses yet another process that's even better on their not-the-best source fish. This process eliminates all the toxins in the first step, pulling out a lot of the other vitamins and minerals, and then in the second step they separate the vitamins from the minerals, and then they put the NATURAL vitamins back in - WIN! Some of the vitamin D is destroyed in this process, so it still ends up with a roughly 10:1 ratio, but they put a natural variation disclaimer on the label, and the epa and dha numbers are also accurate with said disclaimer.
Sardine and mackerel based formula's are generally balanced, but they're piss poor sources in comparison.
As for capsule vs straight oil. I do agree. But MOST people who can't stomach fish, can't stomach straight fish oil, and even those who can just barely manage the more refined oils can't stomach the fermented cod liver. That stuff is ridiculously fishy.
Also. Green Pasture's capsules are cold process, non-gelatin capsules. They aren't harming the product any, but they do slow down absorption, like anything with capsules will. Their capsules are made using a cold process using beeswax and plant cellulose. They're the best most vegan friendly and least harmful type of capsules modern technology has come up with. Look it up. They also disintegrate in the stomach more quickly than any other type of capsule.
As for all your ALA stuff... The simple fact is we don't need to supplement ALA. Trying to supplement ALA is vegan only. And as I mentioned, it does a very very poor job of converting down to epa and dha. Most women are lucky if they convert 3% of it. Men if they convert 1%. And that's of the part we absorb. ALA is best absorbed in whole unrefined forms, and good luck eating enough of it.
Also, NO! Cold pressed aka filtered is the best! Molecularly distilled is only better if you're dealing with a bad source to begin with, and then ONLY if they don't put things back in with synthetics that they stripped away, which too many of them do. Like the Solgar.
Carlson's uses yet another process that's even better on their not-the-best source fish. This process eliminates all the toxins in the first step, pulling out a lot of the other vitamins and minerals, and then in the second step they separate the vitamins from the minerals, and then they put the NATURAL vitamins back in - WIN! Some of the vitamin D is destroyed in this process, so it still ends up with a roughly 10:1 ratio, but they put a natural variation disclaimer on the label, and the epa and dha numbers are also accurate with said disclaimer.
Sardine and mackerel based formula's are generally balanced, but they're piss poor sources in comparison.
As for capsule vs straight oil. I do agree. But MOST people who can't stomach fish, can't stomach straight fish oil, and even those who can just barely manage the more refined oils can't stomach the fermented cod liver. That stuff is ridiculously fishy.
Also. Green Pasture's capsules are cold process, non-gelatin capsules. They aren't harming the product any, but they do slow down absorption, like anything with capsules will. Their capsules are made using a cold process using beeswax and plant cellulose. They're the best most vegan friendly and least harmful type of capsules modern technology has come up with. Look it up. They also disintegrate in the stomach more quickly than any other type of capsule.
As for all your ALA stuff... The simple fact is we don't need to supplement ALA. Trying to supplement ALA is vegan only. And as I mentioned, it does a very very poor job of converting down to epa and dha. Most women are lucky if they convert 3% of it. Men if they convert 1%. And that's of the part we absorb. ALA is best absorbed in whole unrefined forms, and good luck eating enough of it.