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Some Omega 3 supplements can cause GOUT!!!
LCromwell
Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 09:08 AM -
Need to 3360 mg?
Lisa Nelson
Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 11:55 AMHi Dr. Davis,
I'm curious to know if you've reviewed research that supports supplementing 3360 mg/day. The research I've viewed supports 850mg of DHA and EPA per 1 gram capsule of fish oil daily to reduce risk of cardiac death 30 percent.
All the best,
Lisa Nelson, RD
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I don't agree with you about the fish oil prices
Virginia
Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 02:03 PMI do beleive in taking a good quality of fish oil. However, I don't agree with you that it has to cost over $3000.00 a year. The medical community should realize that expenses are foremost in those taking medicines or vitamins to maintain good health and I feel the pharmacutical community takes advantage of that. If people would eat correctly they wouldn't be going to the doctor as often. I wonder sometimes if the medical community really wants people to be well, they would loose a lot of money wouldn't they?
re: I don't agree with you about the fish oil prices
datasam
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 02:44 PMVirginia, If you re-read the Dr.'s remarks about cost, I think you will see that he is advocating the inexpensive solution, just as you are. At least I hope that he is. My opthaologist recently recommended an Omega-3 fish oil brand that he carried and which he said was particularly pure and therefore more effective than the usual Walgreen's version. It cost several times as much, however. He suggested I take "his" PLUS the 4 gms (Walgreen's) I was already taking. I considered this advice to be ridiculous and more or less disrespectful.
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lovaza
Anonymous
Saturday, December 20, 2008 at 12:56 AMDoes anyone know what is in these capsuls that our doctors are prescribing to us. I asked several druggists and they informed me that it was basically cod liver oil in a capsul and that we were being overcharged for it by glaxosmithkline. They are very expensive for people on medicare and serving to burden the system with their high prices at a time in our country when we should be conserving costs and trying to bring the high costs of healthcare down. They purchased Reliant Pharmaceutical recently for $165,000,000 and this is the company thats marketing this miracle cod liver oil capsul, that know one, mostly your doctor can tell you much about.
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I developed GOUT after taking Spring Valley's Omega 3, 1200MG I got at Walmart. I did research on the INTERNET and found that anchovie is used in most and the Lovaza didn't it only used Salmon Omega 3. The GOUT went away after a month or so and I then took the Lovaza brand thru my Medco RX plan. Now I am unemployed and cannot afford the Lovaza so I do not take the Omega 3 any longer.