Do you know how much fish you gotta eat to get the recommended daily dose of fish oil?
fish oil in capsules are so much easily available and the absorption is far more better cos by eating fish your body has to digest it first.Depending on how well is your digestive system otherwise your body will not absorb it to it's fullest

One I only take fish oil which are certified by IFOS. Manufacturer can said they are the freshest,no contamination, blah blah. But do they have proof to prove their claim? A fish oil manufacture which cannot produce a certificate of analysis (email them for it) should start ringing some alarm bells as they have something to hide. IFOS is 3rd party.
Second, IFOS certified both ethyl ester and triglyceride fiah oil. I only take triglycerides fish oil as they are much more stable (won't go rancid so fast), better absorbed and exist in nature as triglycerides. Ethyl ester fish oil are cheaper to produce but more prone to oxidation (bad thing) and is less absorbed by the body.
Third, their DHA-EPA contents are pretty high when you compared to fish oil sold in malaysia pharmacies. (you need lesser softgels to meet the min amount per day)
In the US, Nordic is like the gold standard for fish oil. If you money is not an issue to you, take Nordic. If you are on budget, take Carlson.

Hope this answer your questions.

This post has been edited by Ramjade: Aug 9 2016, 09:12 PM

Thanks a lot.
i'll check out bodybuilding.com to see it they stock these brands.
Have a nice day

You more likely to be smell like a fish than become replacement for Einstein...

Can you share what you read? I'm interested. Coz when I was pregnant, my OB-Gyne prescribed fish oil in my last 2 weeks of pregnancy.

hi,just a word of caution.
I belived you should take the advise of your OB.
You can read about it,no harm in that but let your personal OB have the last word.
The reason being is that they are the specialist and there is no harm taking the fish oil,whether or not they are benificial.
Congrates on your new born.

Just follow your OB-Gyne as not many know that fish oil supplementation is a national plan by some country I can't find the source.
Just make sure that the fish oil doesn't contain mercury, rosemary extract (Carlson is perfectly fine. If you are buying Nordic, avoid the ultimate version, get the prenatal version which will not have rosemary extract)

I know I'm a little bit off topic here. Do you have some information regarding the abbott surbex protect?

Just wanted to know more from you if you have more information regarding multi vitamins supplement.

My opinion? They are worthless. Dosage is too low to do good. For multivitamin, I recommend taking spirulina + chlorella. Why? Both of them are highly dense nutritious food. More nutrient dense than anything. An entire community in Africa at Lake Chad survive on dried spirulina cakes and they are not undernourish like the rest of the Africans.
For CoQ10, one should buy ubiquinone produce by Kaneka

For me and my family,
Multivitamin : Nutrex Hawaian Spirulina + Yaeyama chlorella powder 1tsp each (much more cost economical than tablets)
Fish Oil : Nordic/Carlson
Antioxidant : Healthy Origins Astaxanthin
Parents : Healthy Origins CoQ10 Ubiquinone 100mg (to counter the effects of statins)

If you really want me to recommend multivitamin,
Pure essence master multivitamin 240 tablets
Life extension mix tablets 315 tablets

Of course one does not need to take the full dosage. Hence the above 2 is value for money.

Wow, thanks for your info on this since googling around doesn't get much straight to the point kind of advice.

I started taking multivitamins from the product I mentioned because it has a lot of vitamin b. Previously, I suffered from ulcer for each week and it's really not good. I visited chinese herbs practitioner and he told me to take more vitamin b. Hence, I start looking around and of course, I trusted Abbott since it is a renowned brand.

The antioxidant you mentioned, I try googling and it said that it helps to protect skins, reducing bowel inflammations, and enhance stamina. Is this true?

Just wanted to know what sort of benefit did we get from the antioxidant anyway.

I think you should quote which research and who is doing it so that we can check by ourself to see how credible they are.
By just saying that "recent research shows that fish oil has no benefits" might confused the layman and worst still they would be turn away from taking fish oil when they could actually benefit from it.

I took Surbex Protect for 2 days, and it cause me migraine somehow, wondering if u having this issue?
I took Surbex Zinc, no problem at all. Just thought to go further taking Surbex Protect (Surbex Zinc + Q10 coenzymes)

Not sure what cause the migraine, apparently most probbaly Q10?


Supplements has really getting me times to research and self-experience, as i guess everybody having different reactions to it.

Below are my sharing experience:

My current main concern: Improve Energy (because since born, i am a weak tired energy baby, which always need to rest/sleep more than normal people)
1)Blackmore Multivitamin + Minerals : Good improvement
2)Blackmore Executive B : Migraine issue (doctor suspects cause by magnesium)
3)Surbex Zinc : Excellent improvement (better than item 1)
4)Surbex Protect : Migraine issue (In fact its item 3 with added CoEnzyme Q10, so its Q10 the cause?)

omega-3 fatty acids help protect your heart. Studies show they help maintain brain function. Experts are also looking at how well omega-3 fatty acids can protect against age-related mental decline, eye diseases, arthritis, and others conditions.

https://my.iherb.com/pr/Nordic-Naturals-Ult...wE&gclsrc=aw.ds

this??
price seems reasonable for 2 month dosage

https://my.iherb.com/pr/Carlson-Labs-The-Ve...wE&gclsrc=aw.ds

and this carlson seems cheap a lot

Yes fish oil products are good for health

Hi Ramjade, thank you for sharing!

Is this still the best affordable choice?

How do you validate the effectiveness after taking for a period of time?

I still stand by Nordic, Carlson and sports research.

Sports research is decent. It's certified by IFOS, in TG form and very high concentration.

You do a test.
1. Clean your hands with soap and water. Take a sewing needle and burn the tip/diabetes needle and poke your finger. Your bleeding should be prolong if you have taken sufficient dosage of fish oil. Of course rancid oil may also cause that.
2. Go do strenuous exercise until you can feel your muscle ache. Load up on fish oil say 15g/day and see if your pain resolve faster.
For me I sprained my ankle once and loaded up on fish oil, turmeric and the pain was gone in 2 days. By 3rd day was almost pain free.
3. Do a fasting lipid test at your BP, Gribbles lab. Your lipid profile should be decent. If not, something is wrong.

Thank you for your reply. Interesting test you mentioned here although might be due to variable factors.
Can fish oil help increase HDL and reduce LDL cholesterol?

Also, how does the combination of spirulina and cholera become multivitamin?

The easiest and safest test is lipid profile. In papers yes. But for me the one which really work was one avocado a day. It does wonder to one blood lipid after 3 months (tested personally)

I use to do that when I have access to 5lbs of nutrex spirulina and yaeyama chlorella. Until went out of stock. Now I just use amazing grass super orac instead + lots of fruits and vege like guava, dragon fruit, tomato, carrot.

Thank you again Ramjade. Any specific avocado or from particular country?

For sport research, only recommended is their fish oil?

The amazing superfood seems yummy, will take note.

On the other hand, for the healthy origin coq10 seems to out of stock. Kaneka coq10 100g instead?