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[Matt]

I use COD LIVE OIL SEVEN SEAS and they been going now for 70 years. This is the information I got about their product.

At Seven Seas only the highest quality Cod Liver Oil is produced to ensure that the consumer receives maximum benefit from any of our products. This exceptional quality is achieved through:

Using only the highest quality cod. Seven Seas Pure Cod Liver Oil originates from the clean open waters of the North Atlantic and Artic Oceans.

Seventy years experience in producing the finest Cod Liver Oil.

Special refining techniques and stringent quality control measures ensure the highest standards of purity are maintained. Every single drop of Cod Liver Oil is checked in twenty different ways to ensure that the consumer receives the highest quality possible.

A unique patented refining system, which ensures that our Cod Liver Oil is the purest and highest quality around. Seven Seas Cod Liver Oil is the only oil to be produced using the Ocean Gold™ refining process that guarantees the purest product.

Investment in research and technology, which has resulted in the new and improved formulations that have made Seven Seas the most popular brand of Cod Liver Oil. Seven Seas have played a role in the major scientific discoveries from the essential fatty acids EPA & DHA to the most recent discoveries at Cardiff University. The company will continue to support research initiatives and strive to investigate other research areas that are linked with Cod Liver Oil.

Technological Advances. Seven Seas have developed the unique Pureblend™ process, a technological breakthrough that allows more Cod Liver Oil goodness to be put into Seven Seas products. The Pureblend™ process enriches Cod Liver Oil with Triomega™ - a concentrated natural form of Omega-3.

[Chip]

After doing a fair amount of research, reading a couple of books, perusing and reading entire transcripts of recent trials, I decided for myself to have about 4 grams of EPA and 2 or 3 of DHA everyday. When I am consistant, it alone produces moments of feeling "on top of the world" in what appears to me to be magnitudes greater frequency than I have in at least a decade and a half or so. I experienced a few years of on and off and sometimes quite extreme depression in my late 30s. This stuff alone seems to help keep that relatively at bay. I noticed that when I missed three days and then started the regimen again I felt almost immediate and long lasting (as I've become convinced to make sure to take them) mood elevation.

In general, if I were to take cod liver oil, I find at the doses necessary to get my self-prescribed dosing of EPA/DHA I would also get more than 10,000 IU of vitamin A. I do not feel that is wise for the health of my liver. I don't know what the concentration of vitamin A is in the supplement you take, Matt. I understand that there is an emulsified form of vitamin A used clinically in Germany that appears to not be toxic to the liver but be careful, there are products in the USA that claim to be emulsified vitamin A that are apparently just as toxic to the liver as that in cod liver oil at the massive doses. I was quite intrigued by the research and tried an emulsified otc brand at about 50,000 IU a day about a decade ago and felt pain in my liver area and stopped. If any one knows more of that German form of vitamin A, I'd love to hear of it.

So, I would consider dropping my dose of essential fatty acids if someone could direct me to data that some seemed to have mentioned here and/or in another concurrent thread with this same title, with no references yet (infernity? Don?). I believe there was reference to the dose I am taking as having possible dangerous altercations and if so, I would love to hear and see it and will adjust accordingly. Realize there are two of these threads with the same title that can confuse and render some complexity to this discussion. I might also drop the dose as other supplements I am now taking are seemingly helping greatly also, namely vitamine B timed release capsules and niacin at one gram a day. I thought I detected an almost immediate benefit when I added the timed release and the niacin later.

Of course, I make sure to get molecularly distilled and tested to very low levels of pollutants fish oil capsules (from Trader Joe's presently which still seems like most bang for the buck). I understand that "pharmaceutical grade" equates to "molecularly distilled" but I still prefer to get a product that uses the words "molecularly distilled" as that is how I first heard is the way to avoid pollutants. I also like it when the concentrations of many of the possible pollutants are tested and displayed on the product. I'm still searching for easier and cost effective supplements. I believe Nordic had some liquid forms that I think would be easiest and quickest way to get the stuff into the elderly or for that special highly needy individual at any age. I haven't sat down and done the factor breakdown to really compare Nordic's with the other one product I have come across. I should go through my notes.

[Infernity]

I forgot what's the badness in extra vitamin A, I am today going to find that out- HOLD!

Ugh few more hours...

Oh, and Chip, I am not that familiar with supplements :\ sorry... I can tell from general education I have gathered...

Yours truthfully
~Infernity

[Matt]

Oil pills boost pupil brain power 

Some of the school children taking part in the trials
Children who were under performing in class have seen an improvement in concentration and behaviour after taking a cocktail of natural oils.
More than 120 children aged between six and 12 took part in trials, funded by Durham County Council.

Half used a combination of omega-3 fish oil and omega-6 evening primrose oil and half an olive oil placebo.
The research showed children's learning and behaviour improved significantly when taking the natural fatty acids.

The children were tested at the outset and again after three months for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms, co-ordination and short term memory.

Results suggested that after three months, the group using the fatty acid made "highly significant improvements" in 12 out of 13 behavioural scales, including three diagnostic ADHD features - inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. Short term memory also significantly improved.

One head teacher said children with specific difficulties now concentrate more, read better, and their self-esteem has rocketed.

Dr Madeleine Portwood, an education psychologist from Durham Education Authority, said: "As a psychologist working in schools in Durham I became increasingly aware of the number of children under achieving because they are hyperactive and cannot concentrate.

"In the late 1990s there was lots of research available suggesting fatty acids would make a difference. So I put it to a number of heads and they said we'll give it a go.

"For six months the children were taking supplements during the school day and we measured improvements.

"The most dramatic improvement was in concentration and the spin off was children had better attainments so their reading score improved - some children improved by as much as four years in the six months trial."

http://news.bbc.co.u...and/4511759.stm

Its a shame that the majority of parents and kids do not pay any attention and use this information.

Edited by Matt, 04 May 2005 - 08:19 PM.

[lancelot]

The Costco Kirkland brand does not state that it is either pharmaceutical grade or molecularly distilled which is what has to happen to leave the pollutants behind essentially. .

All Costco/Kirkland brand nutritional supplements are USP certified including both their lines of fish oils. They have too much to lose selling you crap. Leiner is the world's largest manufacturer of vitamins and costco uses them to make their vitamin/nutritional supplement lines. They were the first to make sure their calcium did not contain toxic metals. As far as i'm concerned, Costco/Kirkland brand is top notch.

[haveblue]

sry wrong thread

Edited by haveblue, 22 May 2005 - 09:41 AM.