Posted by utopizen on August 26, 2008, at 21:42:21
In reply to Re: Best brand of fish oil ?, posted by Chris O on August 13, 2008, at 17:22:44
Without question, Minami Nutrition is the best... I just got back from Whole Foods. Paid (before tax) $45 for 60 count of PlusEPA... Serving daily is 2 softgels.
Trust me, no one has obsessed more about omega 3's for mood than this company. It's all they sell. And if I'm not mistaken, all the major studies use their stuff. (If someone's aware of a different brand clinical studies have used, please let me know)
My doc is at a leading teaching hospital, and says his colleague's specialty is in finding the results of fish oil on depression. He says lately, the stuff he's published in the big name journals have all pointed to findings that EPA alone is what is responsible...
I'd get their DHA stuff, but I can't justify the benefit it might have on my cardiovascular system/skin or whatever given the prices...
PlusEPA is the most concentrated EPA-only formulation they make.
The stuff is binded with stuff that makes it more likely to get picked up by your brain's receptors, as if it were metabolizing actual fish. Which is the big selling point, of course.
If anyone knows an online source for this stuff that is cheap, or at least bulk, please let me know!!!
I have taken fish oil from CVS for years in those big jars their store brand sells... with big softgels. I would take a dozen each morning, to compensate for the low potency and less sophisticated binding/extraction methods...but I still had terrible mood all the same. This stuff, in a matter of weeks, I swear, made me go from having so-so mood to really feeling like in love with world. =)
but man, is it pricey!!!! the good stuff, they know they're good, so it's more expensive.these people are obsessed with their production methods, and it's a very unique method. It's not just about potency it's how it's extracted, how it's binding to the brain...
these things can be rejected as toxins and metabolized out if your brain rejects it.
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