NKO: Krill Oil

Is it good to take Cod Liver Oil as a supplement?

Today I bought a bottle of Carlson’s Norwegian Cod liver oil (liquid). I read somewhere that this oil is a good supplement of omega 3 oils and also because it has vitamin D. I live in Canada where you see no sun for like 6 months so that’s why I got it and mainly because of Omega 3 fatty acids.

You are absolutely right, you can not get enough vit.D from cod liver oil because of the high vit.A levels BUT I highly recommend you including cod liver oil as a part of your supplementation (up to 100% DV vit.A). Use vit.D3 for the balance of your needs.

Current recommendations from researchers for vit.D3 are for 35iu per pound – a 150# person needs minimum of 5250iu per day & the rda is 400iu. This amount is for minimal needs and does not account for depleted stores. March is when stores are at their lowest.

EPA & DHA are both omega 3 fatty acids. Cod liver oil is not a good source of EPA/DHA. DHA is the most important for health but doesn’t seem to be assimilated without EPA, so having a both is important. I highly recommend eating cold water fish instead of taking just the fish oil.

Omega 3 fatty acids are PUFA’s (polyunsaturated fatty acids) & extremely fragile & start going rancid as soon as exposed to air. PUFA’s are fine from *whole food sources* but when separated from the food, begin oxidizing immediately & cause free radical damage to the body. I highly recommend making an effort to get as much fish oil from whole food sources. I recommend eating sardines several times per week. Mackerel, herring, salmon & oysters are also good options.

Taking fish oil or krill oil is a convenient way to get EPA/DHA consistently but I’m still concerned about the degradation. Krill oil has naturally occurring antioxidants which make them somewhat safer but I still recommend whole food sources.

Another problem with ingesting “just” the oil, is that you are missing all the nutrition from the whole food source. The only oil I can see recommending is cod liver oil (mixed with butter or coconut oil/MCT to maximize bioavailability) & only because whole cod livers are not readily available.

I started eating 1 oz. canned oysters every morning for the naturally occurring zinc (170% DV) & found it also had 90% DV of B12 as well as getting 1g a week in Omega 3 fatty acids, EPA/DHA.

Ounces Fish EPA DHA grams

3 Herring_ 1.06 0.75 1.81
3 Mackerel 0.56 1.01 1.57
3 Sardines 0.45 0.74 1.19
3 Oysters_ 0.75 0.43 1.18
3 Salmon__ 0.45 0.60 1.05
3 Trout___ 0.40 0.44 0.84
3 Tuna____ 0.04 0.19 0.23
3 Haddock_ 0.06 0.14 0.20

DHA is the most abundant omega-3 fatty acid in the brain and retina. Low levels of DHA have been associated with Alzheimer’s disease. DHA is depleted in the cerebral cortex of severely depressed patients.

http://www.fishoilbenefitsexplained.com/food-sources-of-essential-fatty-acids.html

Adding butter or virgin coconut oil will help make the Omega 3 fatty acids more bioavailable.

Whenever taking cod liver oil, remember the findings of Dr. Price. He noted that he did not get good results from cod liver oil unless he gave it concurrently with high-vitamin butter. Just why this is so is a matter of speculation, but we do know that the very unsaturated fatty acids found in cod liver oil cannot be effectively assimilated and stored in the tissues without the presence of adequate saturated fatty acids, the kind that would be provided by butter. This means that even regular butter would help support cod liver oil therapy; but Price found that the combination of cod liver oil with high-vitamin butter, from cows eating rapidly growing green grass, was nothing short of miraculous, reversing tooth decay and bringing patients back from the brink of death.

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