I wanted to start a thread related to high quality fish oil supplements and krill oil supplements. Hopefully people with a lot more knowledge than me on this topic will be gracious enough to chime in with their thoughts on the subject.
Of particular interest to me are people’s thoughts on the dosage of, say, Flameout versus krill oil, which is supposed to be very easy to assimilate due to the EPA and DHA being inside a phospholipid. If rotating supplements I was wondering how to be relatively certain that I was supplementing with roughly approximate dosages, since the typical recommended amount of EPA and DHA from krill oil is often much lower than from that of a supplement such as Flameout.
I’d also love to hear from anyone familiar with rotating various types of fish oil supplements a la Charles Poliquin and to get some ideas on some of the better ways to work such a rotation.
Is there any reason you are set on rotation? I hate to be a Biotest pimp, but I’ve looked at most other peoples products (Poliquin included) and nothing else even comes close. Flameout just went up another 2 bucks, but its still beating the competition at 30 bucks in my opinion.
Most other fish/krill oil have the standard 120/180 epa/dha, so you have to do 3 or so at every meal to equal 4 Flameout.
Even Polquin’s high concentration is still about half as concentrated as Flameout and costs 50 dollars.
Well, I don’t rotate and I’m not sure why I would.
I looked at krill since it was advertised in the Costco Connection and would be very easy to pick up, but the EPA+DHA content was just too low for me to bother with.
A big problem with many fish oil supps is that their EPA+DHA content is low, like 10% or 15% of the total fat. I do not want to pay supplement prices for so much saturated or mono fats; I’d rather get those in my diet from much cheaper and tastier sources like dairy products and olive oil.
Having tried about a dozen different brands, I use only Carlson’s The Very Finest liquid, or Natural Factors. Sears’ pharmaceutical grade is also good, but much more expensive than these. For capsules when I’m not eating at home, I use Flameout.
Quality is paramount for fish oil. You’re taking in grams and grams of the stuff, and if it’s not fresh and pure, you’re doing yourself more harm than good, and therefore wasting your money.
Carlsons is really the only other game in town as far as price and DHA/EPA go. The lemon honestly isnt too bad either.