John Day MD on Pierre Kory’s Medical Musings

[John Day MD]

Carlson fish oil products are high quality, as are Nordic Naturals. Caveat Emptor. There is good quality stuff available. These are national traditions of quality. https://carlsonlabs.com/blog/do-you-know-where-your-fish-oils-come-from/

Flax oils cannot provide the basis for stablization of manic tendencies.

DHA, the main stabilizing omega-3 fatty acid will be inadequate. That may be helpful in unipolar depression, in high enough quantities. It is certainly worth a try if a depressed person has no family history of bipolar disorder on the side of either parent.

This may be a history of heavy alcoholism in many cases, instead of "Bipolar" diagnosis.

The link you provide is not to data about omega-3 fatty acid therapeutics, but to cancer treatment.

[Russ D]

Again, we will have to agree to disagree. I see it otherwise!!! How do you know the Fish oil you purchase is not farm raised?

DDT in Fish Oil Supplements

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/ddt-in-fish-oil-supplements/

Revealed: many common omega-3 fish oil supplements are ‘rancid’

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/17/revealed-many-common-omega-3-fish-oil-supplements-are-rancid

Why Men Should Avoid Fish Oil Supplements

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/again-why-men-should-avoid-fish-oil-071113

Fish Oil in Troubled Waters

Michael Greger M.D. FACLM · October 5, 2011 · Volume 5

Major fish oil manufacturers and drug stores are being sued for failing to disclose the PCB pollutants in fish oil supplements.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/fish-oil-in-troubled-waters/

[John Day MD]

Carlson is not farm raised. Norway and other scandinavian countries have a long history of responsible fishing, and hae particular shoppers.

Again, be a careful buyer.

This Carlson product and the Nordic Natural products work very well for people in my extended experience, since I began prescribing them as medical treatments in 2007