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Long-Awaited Study Results on Vitamin D and Fish Oil Supplements

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Re: Long-Awaited Study Results on Vitamin D and Fish Oil Supplements

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Post by marktangotango »

damontal wrote: post #169
marktangotango wrote: post #77

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I’m a big believer in fish oil. In my late 30s I experienced a consistent feeling of unwell ness and what I describe as “brain fog” so badly and consistently I went to the dr about it. Turned I had high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Dr wanted me to modify my diet and if it didn’t improve he wanted to put me on statins(!) Fish has never been part of my diet. Started using fish oil, eating Cheerios, vitamins and…

What part do you think Cheerios played in this?

Cheerios are advertise to reduce cholestol, there are studies to support the claim, whatever that’s worth.

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Post by Chyzwar »

SlowRobotAhead wrote: post #170
Chyzwar wrote: post #132

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D_deficiency Osteoporosis among other symptoms. Swelling tongue is not on the list.

Because Wikipedia is a medical reference.

Because Wikipedia is more reliable than a random guy from the internet.

Re: Long-Awaited Study Results on Vitamin D and Fish Oil Supplements

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Post by jessaustin »

coldtea wrote: post #159
speedplane wrote: post #144

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Tuna is nice and fancy (and expensive). Few eat it every day. Tilapia is cheap, sustainable, and has low mercury. I’m no nutritionist, but what’s the big deal with eating tuna every now and again, but mostly sticking to smaller fish?

> Tuna is nice and fancy (and expensive). Few eat it every day. In which country? Tuna cans and tuna sandwiches and salads are some of the most popular foods in lots of countries. Nothing fancy (tuna is no lobster or caviar) or especially expensive about it. It's available as a Subway sandwich for dog's sake!

Real tuna is delicious. Canned tuna is worse than pet food. (perhaps this explains the slip in your last sentence?) We probably shouldn't be eating tuna at all, for environmental reasons. GP's point that there are lots of non-apex-predator fish in both fresh and salt water still holds.

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Post by thomasfedb »

alan_wade wrote: post #114
thomasfedb wrote: post #23

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Fairly recent Cochrane review concludes: > ... we do not have sufficient high quality evidence to determine the effects of [omega-3] as a treatment for [major depression]. Our primary analyses suggest a small-to-modest, non-clinically beneficial effect ... compared to placebo; however the estimate is imprecise, and we judged the quality of the evidence on which this result is based to be low/very low. https://www.coc…

Can you recommend any books similar to Ultramind Solution but with more helpful info, in your opinion?

If you're looking for general advice on living a healthy lifestyle, try this resource from the NIH:

https://www.nih.gov/health-information/your-healthiest-self-...

It's nothing groundbreaking, but that's a good sign in my book when it comes for credibility.

Or is it something more specific you're looking for?

Re: Long-Awaited Study Results on Vitamin D and Fish Oil Supplements

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Post by coldtea »

jessaustin wrote: post #173
coldtea wrote: post #159

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> Tuna is nice and fancy (and expensive). Few eat it every day. In which country? Tuna cans and tuna sandwiches and salads are some of the most popular foods in lots of countries. Nothing fancy (tuna is no lobster or caviar) or especially expensive about it. It's available as a Subway sandwich for dog's sake!

Real tuna is delicious. Canned tuna is worse than pet food. (perhaps this explains the slip in your last sentence?) We probably shouldn't be eating tuna at all, for environmental reasons. GP's point that there are lots of non-apex-predator fish in both fresh and salt water still holds.

>Real tuna is delicious. Canned tuna is worse than pet food.

Don't know, I like both for their own tastes. Some canned tuna is worse than pet food (especially the one made into a mush), but some canned tuna is great.

>perhaps this explains the slip in your last sentence?

No, I wanted to give it a lighter slant than "god's sake" for our American friends, sort of like "heck".

Re: Long-Awaited Study Results on Vitamin D and Fish Oil Supplements

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Post by coldtea »

y4mi wrote: post #164
coldtea wrote: post #159

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> Tuna is nice and fancy (and expensive). Few eat it every day. In which country? Tuna cans and tuna sandwiches and salads are some of the most popular foods in lots of countries. Nothing fancy (tuna is no lobster or caviar) or especially expensive about it. It's available as a Subway sandwich for dog's sake!

you're talking about different things... fresh tuna is pretty expensive. its just the cans that are dirt cheap

I see. But you can get your precious oils (or mercury) from either, right?

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Post by akvadrako »

jessaustin wrote: post #173
coldtea wrote: post #159

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> Tuna is nice and fancy (and expensive). Few eat it every day. In which country? Tuna cans and tuna sandwiches and salads are some of the most popular foods in lots of countries. Nothing fancy (tuna is no lobster or caviar) or especially expensive about it. It's available as a Subway sandwich for dog's sake!

Real tuna is delicious. Canned tuna is worse than pet food. (perhaps this explains the slip in your last sentence?) We probably shouldn't be eating tuna at all, for environmental reasons. GP's point that there are lots of non-apex-predator fish in both fresh and salt water still holds.

What's wrong with pet food?

Re: Long-Awaited Study Results on Vitamin D and Fish Oil Supplements

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Post by mrhappyunhappy »

INTPenis wrote: post #125
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #120

Dark-skinned office-working New Yorker here. Neglected blood tests for years. Took a significant other to realise that, every winter, I’d start eating tinned sardines by the caseload. Once I began supplementing, on doctor’s orders after a blood test, the cravings stopped. Guess what’s super-rich in Vitamin D?

Yeah I came here to say this. I'm sure people do take vitamin D to stave off heart disease and cancer but that was never my intention. I live in scandinavia so every autumn I start taking one vitamin D pill a day to keep my spirits up during the long darkness. I believe it helps and I have no illusions of preventing any diseases with it, except winter depression.

This is common knowledge to everyone who lives in PNW. It rains most of the time so people take vitamin D.

Re: Long-Awaited Study Results on Vitamin D and Fish Oil Supplements

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Post by mrhappyunhappy »

insertnickname wrote: post #154
ccozan wrote: post #146

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I take for example a 5000mg poll every two days. But in winter I take it every day.

You probably mean 5000 IU, which is equivalent to 125 micrograms (of vitamin D).

I don’t remember where I read this but I heard 2000 IU is the minimum to be effective.
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