The more important part about fish oil purchasing is not the concentration of EPA/DHA but the level of PCBs and dioxins. Mercury content isn't much of a worry as it concentrates in the liver. You're taking cold press fish fats as supplementation, so it's unlikely that mercury would cause reason for worry. Better safe than sorry I'd say.

I found a brand in the UK that has 2ng WHO-TEQ/kg PCB,dioxins and less than 2ppm mercury which measures quite well by my quality standards. Get something molecularly filtered. Even NOW Nutrition, which boasts molecular filtration only supplied partial evidence for their low pollutant claims and purity to government food administrations.

Choose your oil wisely because you want to be taking about 3 - 4g of combined EPA/DHA for fat loss effects (some even recommend up to 10g, but that is the excessive mindset of a bodybuilder - more is better, which isn't always true). So if your oil has a lot of pollutants, you'd be gobbling them down pretty quick.

I don't think you are. My friend gets the shits taking them also.

I'm taking about 6 - 8 a day without problems at 1,000mg 180/120 EPA/DHA per cap.

Are your caps softgels?

It was documented in some papers that above a certain dosage, EPA/DHA promoted fat loss.

I couldn't be bothered to look up the specifics. If you're that interested, I'm sure you can pubmed it, being an Elite and all.

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Added on February 5, 2009, 1:04 amSounds cheap, but GNC isn't very pure I don't think. A bit of hear-say here and there about the pollutants in them. I don't know very much and I can't back this up right now cos I'm so sleepy. It can be easily found on the intertubes if it's true. I'd get something purer if I could, but your body can withstand a fair amount of dioxins before it becomes harmful as it takes your weight into consideration. Regardless, purer is better. Your body is a temple.

Mine has about 12ng WHO-TEQ/kg fish oil, so you can see how much there is there. It's quite an unpure one but not as dangerous as 37ng WHO-TEQ/kg by Boots Pharmacy. LOL

17,000 mg/tablespoon is huge. That's a lot. Like 17 tablets a day, dayumn

This post has been edited by mofonyx: Feb 5 2009, 01:06 AM

probs. Enough to substantiate quite a big hype methinks.

Also, after taking fish oils I've been feeling better about myself (serotonin related) and my sleeping hours are more regular than expected.

It gives me more benefits than I initially expected. I'm very happy.

There was a report filed by the government food administration in UK about the level of contaminants in commercial fish oil products. Also, I emailed the company asking for their level of contaminants and they agreed to send me their report but I haven't seen that in the mail yet.

It's a very old survey though.