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Medical Forum / General / General / February 2005salmon oil and triglycerides
I have begun taking salmon oil (Steve Harris) and also eat fatty fish at least four times a week. I wonder if there is such a thing as too low a triglyceride level and if so, what the problems might be with that. My unmedicated triclyerides are exceptionally low. Zee > I have begun taking salmon oil (Steve Harris) and also eat fatty fish > at least four times a week. I wonder if there is such a thing as too > low a triglyceride level and if so, what the problems might be with > that. My unmedicated triclyerides are exceptionally low. > > Zee Your triglycerides should be fine, but I've seen reports recently of people who eat lots of fish, and pop lots of fish pills, experiencing neurological problems. The reported neurologic symptoms include tremors, headaches, short-term memory loss, incoordination, weakness, loss of appetite, altered sense of taste and smell, numbness and tingling in the hands and feet, insomnia, and excessive sweating. Research into the causes points to mercury contamination, due to the long-term effects of fish consumption. But, hey, it's fish oil...it's natural right? And regulated and inspected by the FDA? So, you'll probably be fine...unless you're not. With tongure firmly in cheek. GG It is wild Alaska salmon oil, and yes, apparently tested for those substances. I will only take one 1000 mg capsule until I have finished this bottle then Gary. Just to see how it goes. This is a departure for me. I do not take supplements or vitamins, apart from folate and b complex. Zee > > I have begun taking salmon oil (Steve Harris) and also eat fatty fish > > at least four times a week. I wonder if there is such a thing as too [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > GG > It is wild Alaska salmon oil, and yes, apparently tested for those > substances. I will only take one 1000 mg capsule until I have finished [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Zee Wild has a nice ring to it and farm raised with god knows what sounds yucky! But as I understand it some of the most contaminated places on earth reside in the arctic circle. Seems winds carry PCB?s etc up north and deposit the nastiest things about. The food chain then enable fat fish to concentrate the poisons. We smart humans are at the top and thus enjoy the spoil first hand. Breast milk of local arctic people is higher in modern toxins then the local folks who generated the poisons. Weird Eh? So tread lightly (Drive less use less war less) or our heart meds may do us in. PS Still try to purchase wild stuff as I am in denial of above. 35 and sunny here a welcome break here ... Bill  SignatureZone 5 S Jersey USA Shade Serious Vision Problems like Starghart?s ? --> http://www.ocutech.com/ William Wagner <No1SpamStill__B2wagner@snip.net> wrote in part: > Wild has a nice ring to it and farm raised with god knows what sounds >yucky! But as I understand it some of the most contaminated places [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >arctic people is higher in modern toxins then the local folks who >generated the poisons. The main cardio benefit to eating fish appears to be from the fat. Salmon are less contaminated than are larger species, as they are farther down the food chain. Mercury does not accumulate in the fat, so the fish oil capsules are safe on that score. Mercury is pretty uniformly distributed on the earth's surface, as it comes from power plant emissions and these circle the globe. A recent study showed that a good bit of the mercury in a Vermont lake came from China. According to recent data, the wild fish are less contaminated in general than the farmed. They also are quite different in terms of fatty acids, since they develop on completely different diets. The cardio benefits (n-3 fats) would be greater from the wild fish. Additionally, farmed fish such as salmon that have a connection with seawater are transmitting disease to wild fish. -- Jim Chinnis Warrenton, Virginia, USA jchinnis@alum.mit.edu Consumers Reports did an article a year or 2 ago on the benefits of fish consumption and fish oil. They had independant labs analyze 15 or so brands of salmon and other fish oils and concluded that there were virtually no toxins found in any of the brands they tested and surmized that the fish oil products were "safe" in terms of toxins like mercury, PCBs etc. No mercury .. here .. <<snip>> after only 2 weeks, PI may have a comparable therapeutic value to niacin <<snip>> J Lipid Res. 2004 Dec 1; [Epub ahead of print] Related Articles, Links Phosphatidylinositol raises HDL cholesterol levels in humans. Burgess JW, Neville TA, Rouillard P, Harder Z, Beanlands DS, Sparks DL. Studies have shown that phosphatidylinositol (PI) can stimulate reverse cholesterol transport by enhancing the flux of cholesterol into HDL and by promoting the transport of HDL-cholesterol to the liver and bile. The goal of this study was to determine the safety and therapeutic value of PI following oral administration to normolipidemic human subjects. We performed a randomized 2 week study in 16 normolipidemic subjects. Subjects received either 2.8 g or 5.6 g of PI, with or without food. PI was well tolerated by all subjects. PI significantly affected the levels of HDL-C and triglyceride in the plasma of subjects receiving PI with food. The lower dose showed a 13% increase in HDL-C, while those on the high dose showed an increase of 18% over the 2 week period. Both low and high dose groups showed significant elevations in plasma apoA-I. The high dose of PI also decreased plasma triglycerides by 36% in the fed subjects. The data suggest that after only 2 weeks, PI may have a comparable therapeutic value to niacin, with negligible side effects. PMID: 15576836 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Who loves ya. Tom Jesus Was A Vegetarian! http://jesuswasavegetarian.7h.com Man Is A Herbivore! http://pages.ivillage.com/ironjustice/manisaherbivore DEAD PEOPLE WALKING http://pages.ivillage.com/ironjustice/deadpeoplewalking > I have begun taking salmon oil (Steve Harris) and also eat fatty fish > at least four times a week. I wonder if there is such a thing as too > low a triglyceride level and if so, what the problems might be with > that. My unmedicated triclyerides are exceptionally low. > > Zee There is no such thing. At His service, Andrew -- Andrew B. 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