Pharmaceutical Grade Fish Oils-Is It The Best Choice??
Pharmaceutical Grade Fish Oils- Is It The Best Choice??
By Bryon Zirker
Most of us recapture when we were kids how our Mother insisted we take that nasty tasting cod liver oil, whether we liked it or not!
Well, Latest Medical research on the benefits of fish oil and omega-3 fatty acids has shown, that Mother was right after all.......fish oil is definitely good for you!
But who can discount that deplorable taste. Anyway, all fish oils are not created equal. Enter Pharmaceutical Grade Fish Oil.
During the time Mother gave us that cod liver oil, the oceans and environment were appreciably fresh and clean. The cod liver oil we took came from the ocean cod that lived in largely un-contaminated waters.
Since that time, mankind has found a way to do a lot of polluting of our ocean waters. Everything from trash, to human waste, to toxic chemicals have been dumped
into the ocean waters.
During the 1980's there was a "fish oil craze" that became a household topic. Everyone was talking about the stated health benefits of fish oil and it's omega-3
fatty acids.
But, as it hit the scene, it left. The reason: people were just not experiencing the health benefits that the gurus and researchers claimed fish oil might accomplish.
Why Pharmaceutical Grade Fish Oil over rank and file fish oils? First let's look at a bit of background of how fish oil is made.
Before the 1980's, fish oil came almost exclusively from the livers of the fish. The problem with that is, there was a high quantity of vitamin A which, if taken in too high of a dosage, could cause a vitamin A toxicity.
In the 1980's fish oil manufacturing changed so that manufacturer's were able to draw out the oil from the undivided body of the fish. This solved the vitamin A
toxicity problem, but the oil still tasted horrible.
So manufacturers encapsulated the oil, which could be swallowed whole. Yet, the mania vanished very quickly. The reason: People were not taking high sufficient doses
to spot any effect.
Researchers discovered that to get the duplicate level of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids as we were getting in the old cod liver oil, we needed to consume eight 1 gram
capsules of the fish body oil per day.
People were just not taking sufficient of the encapsulated body oil to discern any perceivable difference. But....the big problem with taking that much undivided body fish oil became the high occurrence of toxic PCB's.
To deal with this problem, manufacturers developed a technology called molecular distillation which removed some, but unfortunately, not all the PCB's.
Molecular distilled fish oils are better than normal health food grade fish oils, but still they have enough contaminants in them to cause problems when taken in higher dosages.
The latest break through in fish oil technology begins with removing most of the saturated fat by a process called fractional distillation and the removal of virtually all the PCB's by a more advanced and sophisticated molecular distillation process.
With the advent of this new technology, a superior new type of fish oil has arisen: Pharmaceutical Grade Fish Oil! Pharmaceutical grade fish can deliver a condensed count of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids without containing un-wanted by-products like chemical pollutants or damaging saturated fatty acids.
Now with Pharmaceutical grade fish oil, you can take a smaller dose and still obtain the required quantities of omega-3's ......Without the existence of toxic PCB's!
A mere teaspoon of Pharmaceutical grade fish oil packs a larger degree of omega-3 fatty acids than a undivided tablespoon of the old cod liver oil did.....and it comes free of the damaging contaminants and troublesome side
effects.
And.....the cool thing is.....Pharmaceutical grade fish oil leaves almost no bad remnant of taste!!
By Bryon Zirker
Most of us recapture when we were kids how our Mother insisted we take that nasty tasting cod liver oil, whether we liked it or not!
Well, Latest Medical research on the benefits of fish oil and omega-3 fatty acids has shown, that Mother was right after all.......fish oil is definitely good for you!
But who can discount that deplorable taste. Anyway, all fish oils are not created equal. Enter Pharmaceutical Grade Fish Oil.
During the time Mother gave us that cod liver oil, the oceans and environment were appreciably fresh and clean. The cod liver oil we took came from the ocean cod that lived in largely un-contaminated waters.
Since that time, mankind has found a way to do a lot of polluting of our ocean waters. Everything from trash, to human waste, to toxic chemicals have been dumped
into the ocean waters.
During the 1980's there was a "fish oil craze" that became a household topic. Everyone was talking about the stated health benefits of fish oil and it's omega-3
fatty acids.
But, as it hit the scene, it left. The reason: people were just not experiencing the health benefits that the gurus and researchers claimed fish oil might accomplish.
Why Pharmaceutical Grade Fish Oil over rank and file fish oils? First let's look at a bit of background of how fish oil is made.
Before the 1980's, fish oil came almost exclusively from the livers of the fish. The problem with that is, there was a high quantity of vitamin A which, if taken in too high of a dosage, could cause a vitamin A toxicity.
In the 1980's fish oil manufacturing changed so that manufacturer's were able to draw out the oil from the undivided body of the fish. This solved the vitamin A
toxicity problem, but the oil still tasted horrible.
So manufacturers encapsulated the oil, which could be swallowed whole. Yet, the mania vanished very quickly. The reason: People were not taking high sufficient doses
to spot any effect.
Researchers discovered that to get the duplicate level of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids as we were getting in the old cod liver oil, we needed to consume eight 1 gram
capsules of the fish body oil per day.
People were just not taking sufficient of the encapsulated body oil to discern any perceivable difference. But....the big problem with taking that much undivided body fish oil became the high occurrence of toxic PCB's.
To deal with this problem, manufacturers developed a technology called molecular distillation which removed some, but unfortunately, not all the PCB's.
Molecular distilled fish oils are better than normal health food grade fish oils, but still they have enough contaminants in them to cause problems when taken in higher dosages.
The latest break through in fish oil technology begins with removing most of the saturated fat by a process called fractional distillation and the removal of virtually all the PCB's by a more advanced and sophisticated molecular distillation process.
With the advent of this new technology, a superior new type of fish oil has arisen: Pharmaceutical Grade Fish Oil! Pharmaceutical grade fish can deliver a condensed count of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids without containing un-wanted by-products like chemical pollutants or damaging saturated fatty acids.
Now with Pharmaceutical grade fish oil, you can take a smaller dose and still obtain the required quantities of omega-3's ......Without the existence of toxic PCB's!
A mere teaspoon of Pharmaceutical grade fish oil packs a larger degree of omega-3 fatty acids than a undivided tablespoon of the old cod liver oil did.....and it comes free of the damaging contaminants and troublesome side
effects.
And.....the cool thing is.....Pharmaceutical grade fish oil leaves almost no bad remnant of taste!!
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