Posted by Larry Hoover on June 21, 2007, at 8:10:21
In reply to any serious source of veg. (algae) epa + dha?, posted by iforgotmypassword on June 12, 2007, at 11:23:43
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> they seem to have a product, but i don't know if it's actually serious, or legitimate. it has such a trace level of omega 3s i wonder if it's just a scam with some other oil. i don't want to or mean to smear them if they are legit tho. but at the cost, i would have to take almost half a bottle (40 capsules) each day it seems to get to the normal therapeutic range (at least judging from how much fish oil people take and is usually recommended), which would be a **ridiculous** amount of money and, from the lack of filtering, probably involve a huge intake of fats i don't want in me as well.That's not a trace amount of omega-3 fatty acids. It's roughly 1/4 of the fats altogether. Considering there are dozens of different fatty acids that are produced by plants, this is actually an excellent plant source. Animals consuming these fats tend to accumulate the omega-3s for physiological reasons, which explains the higher concentration in e.g. some fishes, and marine mammals.
> the composition of each potato starch capsule, is 25mg EPA and 90mg DHA out of 500mg (23% i think they said), apparently. they also said a 35% version was "in the pipeline", as was research for a "pharmaceutical grade" 70%, in some press release, but i don't know if that's actually true, as that may have been aimed mainly at the shareholders.
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> anyone have any idea if there is anything out there for vegetarians, or will be?
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> thanks.The only thing unique about this product is that it claims any EPA. There has been an algae-based DHA supp on the market for a number of years, called Neuromins. It's a patented product, licensed for sale by a number of different vendors. See: http://www.iherb.com/Search.aspx?c=1&kw=neuromins for examples. There are other vendors, too. This was just an easy example to provide.
It is actually quite possible that Neuromins contains some EPA, but that they just didn't think it worth mentioning. Once the DHA gets into the food chain, back-conversion to EPA leads to the enhancement of that fat's concentration in e.g. fish oils. The same enzymes that would elongate EPA to DHA also do the reverse process. In humans, that is not believed to occur with high efficiency.
Lar
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