Posted by Larry Hoover on October 1, 2003, at 5:54:44
In reply to Re: Omega3 question for Larry Hoover, posted by Wolf Dreamer on September 30, 2003, at 15:47:24
> How much vitamin E do I take in relationship to how much omega 3 I consume? The more omega 3, the more vitamin E I would need I'm guessing.
Darn good question! Yes, you need more vitamin E, the more fish oil you consume. You need vitamin E, anyway, but a crude measure I would suggest is a minimum of 200 IU vitamin E for every 5 grams of fish oil.
> What is the absolute maximum anyone can take of omega 3?
I don't know of an upper limit, other than tolerance (e.g. diarrhea might occur at higher doses).
I've spent some time studying the physiological effects of fish oil, and changes in blood clotting parameters are limited, in my opinion. To put it simply, on a typical Western diet, most people's blood clots too easily. That's why we have so many strokes and heart attacks. Fish oil reduces the tendency of blood to clot, but only in the context of correcting the over-clotting that already exists. It normalizes abnormal blood-clotting, but doesn't go further, to create a situation where you bleed uncontrollably. Your body just fixes what's wrong, and gets happy again.
The standard Eskimo diet is thought to contribute 20-30 grams of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids per day. About 40 years ago, it was found that a particular Inuit (Eskimo) population in Greenland had higher than normal mortality from hemorrhagic stroke (the bleeding kind) than did a matched population in Denmark. That's where the idea of bleeding too much came from, but it has later been discovered that the Inuit had an inbred genetic defect. They have a malformation of artery walls in the brain, and by the time they reach about forty years of age, the artery wall is so fragile that it ruptures. This has nothing to do with fish oil or omega-3 fatty acids. It has to do with the fact that the population was quite isolated, and inbreeding made a recessive genetic trait dangerous, just like Tay-Sachs disease in Jews.
> I'm still taking one omega-3 pill three times a day, 1000mg per pill, starting last Friday afternoon. I'm going to start popping 5 per meal I think, just to see what happens, because I still have anxiety.Add some B-complex, and then add in extra niacinamide. Niacinamide is a special form of niacin, and it is anti-anxiety. So is magnesium.
Lar
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