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Questions for Larry and Taylor » Larry Hoover

Posted by jujube on September 27, 2004, at 14:39:28

In reply to Re: Let's go through the Big 3 » taylor18, posted by Larry Hoover on September 19, 2004, at 9:25:06

Do Krill Oil and/or Fish Oil help with anxiety? How much would one have to take something like 1000 mg three times a day? Could Krill or Fish oil be taken at the same as an AD and Picamilon?

Anything you could tell me would be great.

Thanks so much.


Tamara


> > 1. Krill Oil
> > 2. (Pharmaceutical-Grade) Fish Oil
> > 3. Seal Oil
> >
> > --------------------
> >
> > QUESTIONS:
> >
> > 1. Which is best overall, and why? What makes it best?
>
> That's really hard to say, but if I had to pick one, I'd go with krill oil. It has phosphatides that are not in fish oil, and also has a substantial natural antioxidant level. Fish oil requires antioxidant supps. I don't know enough about seal oil to really comment. I'm not exactly sure what's in it.
>
> > 2. Do different oils impart different effects?
>
> Probably. That's a pretty hard question to answer.
>
> > 3. Does one oil promote a typical effect more prominently?
>
> They should have substantial overlap in effects. The literature isn't clear on differences.
>
> > 4. Should different oils be taken by different people?
>
> Hard to say.
>
> > 5. Should they be rotated every day or combined in the same day?
>
> Actually, a combination of krill oil and fish oil makes a lot of sense, IMHO.
>
> > 6. Is it necessary to be taking at least a small amount of at least one of the oils each day just because it's essential? As opposed to taking larger-than-average dosages to strongly benefit brain chemistry.
>
> The long-chain omega-3s are essential, IMHO. You don't need them every single day.....you need a cumulative intake that is satisfactory. Consider a two-week period, and determine the average intake per day. That's how you should look at it, in the context of substances/nutrients that are stored. In contrast, water solubles like B-vitamins and vitamin C are indeed best taken daily.
>
> If you're chronically depleted in omega-3s, you need to take more than your body needs in the long term, because you're not only supplying the day-to-day requirement, you're changing the basic chemistry of the brain as it does routine maintenance on e.g. membrane phospholipids. It takes months of supplementation to create a stable brain chemistry, i.e. that state where the relative proportion of the PUFAs in membrane phospholipids is constant. At that point, I suppose, the essential intake level is at a minimum, but what that level actually is is anybody's guess. I'd suppose that minimum is around 1 gram/day of long chain omega-3s, but that is a statistical value. Your needs may be more than that, or less than that.
>
> > --------------------
> >
> > WHY I'M INTERESTED:
> >
> > I've experimented with fish oil and krill oil in the past, and I've recently heard about seal oil (from a post on this board). I'm trying to pick an oil that I feel will benefit my mental health best, overall. I can only afford one.
>
> Seals are a high-level carnivore. If there are going to be sources of essential oils that are also most likely to be contaminated with substances that biomagnify (like PCBs, dioxins, pesticides, and so on), then marine mammal oils are going to be on the list.
>
> I just don't know enough about how they're processed to make an informed statement.
>
> > --------------------
> >
> > MY PAST EXPERIENCE:
> >
> > ~kRiLl OiL
> >
> > 1. Make it harder to go to sleep
> > 2. Make me more laughy and goofy
> > 3. Increase physical beauty dramatically (skin, eyes, hair)
> > 4. Impart clarity and inhibition to produce clearer writing
> > 5. Make my thoughts of a higher nature and intelligence
>
> That sounds pretty cool, overall.
>
> > ~fIsH oIls
> >
> > 1. Increase motivation to work
> > 2. Improve connectivity of ideas
> > 3. Make me more outgoing
> > 4. More capable in the day to day world
>
> So does that.
>
> Which did you prefer?
>
> Lar


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