juggernaut

Is this alright to do for a limited time only (2 months) then cutting to half? I read this on another forum, but wanted to know from my peers. Charles Poliquin suggested it.

Prince

why?

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juggernaut

"fish oils offer thirteen possible advantages:

1. Cell membrane health: EPA and DHA insure that cell membranes remain healthy. This means that the membranes are flexible and contain larger numbers of insulin receptors that are more receptive and responsive to circulating insulin. This results in decreased fat storage in the adipocytes (fat cells).

2. Fish oils turn on the lipolytic genes (fat burning genes).

3. Fish oils turn off the lipogenic genes (fat storage genes).

4. Fish oils diminish C-reactive proteins, a newly identified risk factor associated with various inflammatory diseases, including atherosclerosis, angina, coronary heart disease, heart attack, stroke, congestive heart failure, and diabetes. The DHA fraction of the fish oil seems to be one most responsible for that protective effect. DHA also has the best ability to reduce blood pressure.

5. Increase utilization of fat stores from the adipocytes.

6. Preferential utilization for energy production once stored in the adipocytes.

7. Reduced inflammation from physical training.

8. Pain management from the reduced inflammation.

9. EPA regulates blood supply to the brain which is essential in maintaining focus in weight training sessions. DHA is important in brain membranes, memory, and cognitive function.

10. Fish oils increase serotonin levels (the happy neurotransmitter). Therefore, fish oils will decrease incidence of depression, anxiety, panic attack, and reduce carbohydrate cravings.

11. Fish oils will improve your cardiovascular risk profile by lowering VLDL, triglycerides, homocysteine, fibrinogen, and increasing HDL levels. Combining fish oils with plant sterols will improve lipid levels even more than either alone.

12. Fish oils can also decrease blood pressure by several mechanisms. These include increases in the vasodilatory compound, nitric oxide, reducing vascular inflammation, blocking the constrictive elements in the vascular wall such as the calcium channels reducing blood viscosity, and inhibiting a blood vessel constrictor (thromboxane). Lipoprotein (a) is another CVD predictor that can be lowered by fish oils (a 19% reduction was seen with natural, stable fish oils and just 4% with a highly purified fish oil).

13. Fish oils are a great stress fighter. Supplementation with n-3 fatty acids inhibits the adrenal activation of steroids, aldosterone, epinephrine, and norepinephrine (catecholamines) elicited by a mental stress, apparently through effects exerted at the level of the central nervous system. Therefore, for the same amount of stress, one will produce fewer stress hormones if consuming fish oils on a regular basis."

emitecaps

Too much of anything is bad. You could try it but I don't think it's a good idea.

IainDaniel

Not a good idea thins blood and screws with insulin sensitivity.

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Gordo

That's a LOT of fish oil. For what you pay for the quality stuff...that would be incredibly expensive and you risk the problem Ian mentioned.

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goob

Do you people actually, seriously take 5- 6 capsules of fish oil\omega 3 per day???????

NordicNacho

I take 10 of the Cosco brand a day. 3 grams of omega-3 a day

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Prince

I was not asking why to take fish oil, I was asking why you would take 30-50grams per day.

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Jodi

Not a wise idea. To much and you are looking at tiredness, blood thinning, blood clotting issues, lethargy, upset stomach, decreased appetite, vomiting, joint soreness, irritability, headache, drying and cracking of the lips and skin, hair loss, and yellowing of the skin.

ABCs

A.K.A. You are actually toxifying the body instead of benefiting it.

Jodi

Exactly. There is such thing as too much of a good thing.

For instance.........one switches from simple carbs to complex carbs in hopes of losing weight. Well because one knows these complex carbs are much healthier they feel it gives them the right to eat as much as they want. So what happens........they gain weight. Too much of a good thing.

Same with fish oil. Many of the symptoms I listed above are cured with a smart intake of EFA's but once you go overboard, they come back.

P-funk

probably the worst idea i have heard all week (and i have heard some real doosies this week).

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NordicNacho

Hear are some links that talk about taking it in high doses

Testosterone Nation - Question of Strength, December '06 its towards the bottom


Testosterone Nation - Poliquin's Mega Dose Fish Oil

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