We Live In An Age Of Bad Information

Posted: August 20th, 2010 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »

Last night, I was reading some information in an article about fish
oil and although it wasn’t as bad as the New York Times article,
that has been reprinted like gospel on thousands of websites, it was
still full of factual errors.

This particular article stressed that your fish oil should have
substantially more DHA than EPA, because…as everyone knows, at
least according to the writer, DHA is much more important as a fatty
acid than EPA. Now my Powerhouse Omega Formula does have more DHA
than EPA (450 mg to 330 milligrams) but the writer doesn’t identify
what “substantial” means. Does it mean that the 27% more in my
formula is substantial? Does he mean the difference should be
higher, or is that enough to qualify my formula, by his theory?

He then makes the claim that only the waters off the southern coast
of New Zealand have an unpolluted and sustainable source for fish
oil. That simply isn’t true, but I’m sure it makes the New Zealand
Fish Industry happy. (Others make the claim that only a 200 mile
stretch of Peruvian water is unpolluted.) The whole sustainability
argument is fraudulent, unless you are using big fish to make your
oil, in which case it’s probably true.

Many companies don’t care a hoot about what fish they use to make
fish oil, or what the quality level of that fish oil is. You can buy
that kind of oil on any big box store shelf, almost anywhere, and
it’s cheap. It costs virtually nothing to make and sells anywhere
from $7 to $20. This is the kind of stuff that so many people have
had a bad experience with.

But what got me really steamed was his claim about enteric coating.
He said that enteric coatings were devised to hide low quality and
rancid oil. He attributes fish burps to poor handling and says
that’s why you get “repeats.”

No.

You get “repeats” (fish burps) from poor quality fish oil. The
enteric coating was developed to ensure that my high quality fish
oil did not get oxidized from exposure to air and so it could travel
through the stomach to the small intestine before dissolving, where
it could not “repeat.” (And our customers agree, many of whom have
had the prior bad experience.)

The final sin was that he recommended a product that wasn’t even
pharmaceutical grade, which means it didn’t go through molecular
distillation, which is how you rid fish oil of pollutants and
toxins. (Which, by the way, are present everywhere, even in a
supposedly pristine environment.)

So enough of this guy, the New York Times and other dunderheads. If
you want an honest to goodness ultra pure, pharmaceutical grade fish
oil that can benefit you six ways from Sunday, you can get it here.
(With the correct amount of DHA/EPA and the enteric coating.)

https://www.favoriteformulas.com?awt_l=GnZNU&awt_m=1lC4pNgUZ2z2rW

I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

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