Posted by Hugh on August 6, 2016, at 13:45:46
In reply to fish oil.., posted by Christ_empowered on August 1, 2016, at 20:28:23
I've taken fish oil off and on for years. I sometimes get that calm feeling when I take a high dose. I also take krill oil at times, which has more of an effect on me than fish oil. I find krill oil stimulating.
Michael Norden has a chapter in Beyond Prozac on combining fish oil and GLA (gamma-linolenic acid). Norden and Barry Sears (author of The Zone diet books) recommend taking tiny amounts of GLA -- only a few milligrams a week. (A capsule of evening primrose oil typically contains 90 mg of GLA.) It might be in Omega Rx Zone that Sears discusses GLA at length. He writes that people typically do well on it in the beginning, but then its benefits begin to fade because they're taking way too much of it. When I've taken the huge amounts of GLA in evening primrose and in borage oil capsules, it's made me feel very irritable. What I do now is prick a capsule with a pin, squeeze out a drop or two, and then keep the capsule in a sandwich bag in the refrigerator to use again in a few days.
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