Introduction:
Marketing over Science?:
Dr. Oz, Dr. Mercola and others are promoting Omega-3 products that do not contain the right balance to promote good health, and cost 9 times more for the same bioavailable amount of fish oil EPA and DHA Omega-3s, when compared to the highly bioavailable Pharmax fish oils. In doing so, they are not only misinforming you, but may be putting your health at risk. Consider this:
The Krill Oil products they recommend have the wrong balance of the essential fatty acids EPA and DHA! Latest research shows that a high EPA concentration (out of balance with DHA) can increase the severity of influenza viral infection, decrease important functions of the immune response, and reduce the inflammation necessary for healing. (Krill oil contains nearly double the amount of EPA compared to the DHA. Real fish typically contains at least 35% more DHA than EPA!)
Unless the EPA and DHA are properly balanced, your fish oil can be putting your health at risk. |
Fish? Krill? Which One?
A Hint
— The Wrong Omega-3 Balance Can Increase Your Chances of Getting the Flu!
Fish today is a confusing healthy food. It is good for you, no question about that, but finding real fish, not farmed or from contaminated waters, is more and more difficult. And fish remains our best source of the essential fatty acids EPA and DHA, so it is important to get quality and the proper balance. That is where the tricky part comes in.
Today’s standard for EPA and DHA balance is not from a historically healthy diet, like The True-Mediterranean Diet, but from farmed fish and the easier sources used for fish oil supplements. This promotes a higher EPA amount. When you look at a more representative fish from our dietary-past, Wild Pacific Sockeye Salmon, you find higher DHA: 398 mg of DHA to 295 mg of EPA in a 60 gram serving. This is nearly 35% more DHA than EPA.
Both EPA and DHA are essential for good health, and they perform different functions in the body. The importance of proper balance, though, was pointed out recently when researchers started to show that high EPA levels can suppress the immune system. The latest research shows that fish oil supplementation with higher EPA levels, in a mouse model, can increase the severity of an influenza virus infection, decrease important functions of the immune response (for example, an immune cell labeled “CD8 T Cell,” which plays a critical role in immunity to infection and cancer, is suppressed) and reduces the inflammation needed for healing. It is the high EPA that causes this. In contrast, DHA has been shown, in an animal model, to increase the immune system’s T cell response to influenza virus (both DC4 and CD8 T cells). To get optimal benefit from your fish oil supplement, balance is the key.
Recommendation: To insure optimal immune response, cardiovascular and brain benefits from fish oil, keep the DHA level higher than the EPA. Also, use a high absorption product that your body uses just like the Omega-3s from fish.
PharMAX produces the purest, most absorbable fish oils available.
They are treated with the same enzymes your body uses to digest fish, unlike the standard chemical processing of fish oil in other brands, for a more natural product.
To supply your body with an ideal Omega-3 balance, we suggest combining the PharMAX Finest Pure Fish Oil Capsules, with their High DHA Finest Pure Fish Oil Capsules. This combination, one soft-gel capsule of each, will provide an excellent balance of 675 mg DHA to 592 mg EPA, and a total of 1,574 mg of Omega 3s, a very healthy daily amount.
The cost for : $18.56 per month compared to $167.96 for the equivalent amount of EPA and DHA in Krill Oil.
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