Prescription Fish Oil? What?

So I was walking through the isles of my local CVS and saw a pamphlet for a product called Lovaza a prescription fish oil. Looking at there website I don’t really see how this is better than normal fish oil. Anyone have a clue what is supposed to make this better? or is this just another example of pharmaceutical companies trying to make some more cash?

www.lovaza.com/

What a crock of shit. Sometimes the greed and stupidity I see around me literally makes me sick.

[quote]conorh wrote:
What a crock of shit. Sometimes the greed and stupidity I see around me literally makes me sick.[/quote]

Unless, could this be a way for insurance companies to cover fish oil for folks that otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford to take it? If that’s the case I reverse my comments completely.

“Each 1-gram capsule of LOVAZA contains 465 mg EPA and 375 mg DHA, the active fatty acids proven to lower very high triglycerides”

Compared to 1 Flameout pill wich contains aprox:

220 mg EPA
550 mg DHA

[quote]conorh wrote:
conorh wrote:
What a crock of shit. Sometimes the greed and stupidity I see around me literally makes me sick.

Unless, could this be a way for insurance companies to cover fish oil for folks that otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford to take it? If that’s the case I reverse my comments completely.[/quote]

I’m going to go with coporate greed unless someone can tell me otherwise. Just sounds like a pricey fishoil the more I look at it.

[quote]BeforeIforget wrote:
conorh wrote:
conorh wrote:
What a crock of shit. Sometimes the greed and stupidity I see around me literally makes me sick.

Unless, could this be a way for insurance companies to cover fish oil for folks that otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford to take it? If that’s the case I reverse my comments completely.

I’m going to go with coporate greed unless someone can tell me otherwise. Just sounds like a pricey fishoil the more I look at it.[/quote]

Then don’t buy it.

[quote]elih8er wrote:
BeforeIforget wrote:
conorh wrote:
conorh wrote:
What a crock of shit. Sometimes the greed and stupidity I see around me literally makes me sick.

Unless, could this be a way for insurance companies to cover fish oil for folks that otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford to take it? If that’s the case I reverse my comments completely.

I’m going to go with coporate greed unless someone can tell me otherwise. Just sounds like a pricey fishoil the more I look at it.

Then don’t buy it. [/quote]

Well I wanted to see if anyone has heard of it and if it had any benifit over “otc” fishoil.

But no i will not be buying unless i find some sort of benifit to it. The reason I started the thread was the fact their claiming Rx fish oil is superior to regular fish oil. And I found that interesting.

big pharma annoyed that they can’t patent fish oil

tsk tsk too bad