Omega-3 lowered my cholesterol...

On May 19, 12:57 pm, wrote:
Make sure you get a high-quality, pharmaceutical grade Omega3 product,
and not a crappy "fish oil" on the shelf at Walgreens, or you'll be
burping up fish all day long and getting heartburn.

D.

If burping up the fish oil taste is a problem try freezing the
capsules - they make it further down your digestive system and
eliminate that problem.

Have a good day!
Roman

On May 18, 5:27 pm, "Baron Blackfang" wrote:
Sounds exciting. How much olive oil and how many fish oil capsules per day
did you take?

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I had a blood test several years ago and my cholesterol and triglycerides
were very high (I think it was in the mid-200s or something). I didn't
have enough money to go on statins, then I heard about omega-3 in fish
oil and have been taking about 4-5g a day for the last year.

I went in for a new test last month and while I had hoped the fish oil
had lowered it enough so the doctor wouldn't yell at me, but when I went
in for the results he told me my numbers were perfect. Total was 125, HDL
was 47, LDL was 70, and triglyceride was 48. My doctor told me to keep
doing whatever I was doing, which in my case is a diet of red meat, milk
and cheese, refined starches, and lots of salt, with lots of olive oil
and fish oil capsules added to the saturated grease.

This just seems to good to be true. I'll admit I have lost at least 20kg
since the horrible blood test a few years ago, and while I need less
blood pressure medicine, and I can't imagine that minor weight loss could
cause a nearly 150-point reduction in total cholesterol. I swear I suffer
from metabolic syndrome - complete with belly fat and high blood pressure
and glucose that directly corresponds with my weight - and it just seems
odd that so many similar people are put on expensive and dangerous statin
drugs that aren't nearly as effective as natural omega-3 fatty acids.

I'm hardly some new-age holistic natural-healing freak, and all I believe
in is science and I have my personal experience as evidence, and I've
been reading other people's personal accounts with fish oil, with one
person on Lipitor whose 200+ number was reduced to 94 after he added the
fish oil capsules. My opinion is that high cholesterol and its related
symptoms are the result of a nutritional deficiency, and treating it with
drugs instead of the missing vital nutrient doesn't make sense from a
medical point of view. It does make sense from a financial point of view,
as omega-3 can't be patented, while Medicare Part D will pay $500 a pill
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family physician.

March 10, 2007
Cures that Kill

(Preventable Causes of Death)

From the Pain Research Institute
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By Darrell Stoddard, Copyright 2007

It seems like an ultimate irony but the drugs most commonly
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'The person most likely to kill you is not a relative or a friend, or
a mugger or a burglar or a drunken driver. The person most likely to
kill you is your medicine man.

Medical journals and pharmaceutical companies:are uneasy bedfellows
Honor Among Thieves.

Nurses are far better trained and experienced to prescribe drugs than
your accountant trained family doctor. His objective is the health of
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Spin Doctored
How drug companies keep tabs on physicians.
By Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer

Doctors have long maintained that they are immune to the blandishments
of drug companies. The lucrative consulting contracts, fancy meals,
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these are supposed to cloud a physician's clinical judgment. Doctors
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prescribe because of scientific evidence, not marketing.

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Omega-3 Prescribed for Heart Attack Victims

British health agencies are urging docs to prescribe fish oil
supplements for their patients who have had heart attacks in the
previous three months unless they eat oily fish two to four times a
week. The one-gram, one-a-day treatment will be prescribed for life.

The recommendation, published by the National Institute for Health and
Clinical Excellence (Nice), is part of wide-ranging advice designed to
reduce the risks of a secondary attack among the 160,000 people who
survive a first heart attack each year, according to the British
newspaper The Telegraph.

A clinical trial found daily 1g doses of highly concentrated omega 3
within three months of a heart attack cut the risk of a patient later
dying suddenly by 45 per cent.

Of course, Dr. Russell Blaylock, author of The Blaylock Wellness
Report, reported the same effects from high omega-3 doses in his
special report "Omega-3: Nature's Miracle Panacea." He writes that
omega-3's dramatic heart-healing properties were "demonstrated to
dramatic effect by a recent study in the prestigious medical journal
The Lancet. Researchers selected patients who had arrhythmias that
couldn't be controlled using conventional heart drugs. The patients
were given high doses of Omega-3 fats, leaving a significant number
free of arrhythmias. Many of the others ended up responding much
better to their medications."

Still, American doctors don't encourage their patients to take the
heart-healthy supplement. Instead, they usually recommend expensive
and invasive treatments such as implantable defibrillators or pills to
lower cholesterol.

"Most cardiologists here are not giving omega-3's even though the data
supports it - there's a real disconnect," said Dr. Terry Jacobson, a
preventive cardiologist at Atlanta's Emory University. "They have been
very slow to incorporate the therapy."

Meanwhile, European doctors are embracing the treatment. In Italy,
every heart attack victim leaves the hospital with a prescription for
fish oil and to do less, they believe, would be tantamount to
malpractice.

Dr. Blaylock would agrees, but goes further, noting that omega-3
reduces the deadly inflammation that causes atherosclerosis, and
subsequently heart attacks.

He writes: "Recently, scientists isolated a special lipid called
'resolvin E1,' which they think might be the anti-inflammatory
ingredient in fish oils. In a study in the March 2005 issue of the
Journal of Experimental Medicine, researchers concluded that this fat
component prevents inflammatory cells from working their way into the
blood vessels, where they can do their damage."

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