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Toxic Fish Oils!? POPs Commonly Found in Comm. Fish Oil Supps Accumulate & Lower Your Anti-Oxidant Defenses

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You are probably popping POPs (per-sistent organic pollutants) with your fish oil supplements; and even if your blood lipids would suggest the pills are helping, you may slowly, but progressively be running down your anti-oxidant defenses. From my previous articles about fish oil you will remember that the often-cited heavy metals may actually be the lesser of two evils of commercially produced fish oil. A recent study from the  San Diego State University  does now appear to confirm that lead and mercury could in fact be of less concern than the omnipresent persistent organic pollutants (POPs) In fact, scientific studies show that the consumption of fatty fish and fish oil supplements is an important point of entry of POPs into the human food chain, exposing populations to toxic compounds such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and organochlorine pesticides (OCs). In that, Contamination with POPs in fish is not limited to certain regions or species. It is, rather, glob...
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Farmed vs. Wild-Caught: Pollutants and A Low Omega-3/6 Ratio - Is Wild Caught Fish Always the Better Choice? Plus: Krill, Fish Oil, or Whole Fish - What's Best for Your Health?

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Wild caught or farmed? If you google it, it appears to be as if eating farmed  fish could be worse than eating no fish at all, but is this actually true? Farmed fish is the ugly duckling in the "superfood" family. It is - at least that's what you'll read on the Internet - low in omega-3s, full of "bad" omega-6 fatty acids and laden with all sorts of pesticides. But wild caught fish is expensive and if we all ate it day in and day out not exactly eco-friendly, right? In today's SuppVersity special parts of which you may have recently seen pop up for a few hours in interview form over at www.fighterdiet.com , before Pauline Nordin and I decided that due to its length and complexity it was rather an article than an interview and should thus be published as such, I am going to tackle the issue of "farmed vs. wild-caught" and "fish vs. fish oil" from all possible angles. Do not underestimate fish as a protein source - fish is mor...
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Want to Boost Hormone Production? POP Crude Cod Liver Oil or Industrial Waste: Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Crude Cod Liver Oil Modulate Steroidogenesis.

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Image 1: If you are concerned about the hormonal side(?)-effects of persistent organic pollutants, better make sure you buy pharma- ceutical grade cod liver oil. I know, what you are thinking now: "Not again, the ProfDrAndro anti-fish oil rant ." Yet, this is neither about your beloved fish oil, nor is it ranting. Its an unfortunate fact that environmental poisons such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) find their way into the food-chain of fish. The fish your shiny cod liver oil pills are made of are no exception from this rule and if the producers did not take (costly) measures to remove these toxins from the crude cod liver oil, chances are the non-dioxin-like POPs have already begun to accumulate in your adrenal coretex ( Colby. 1994 ; Ribelin. 1984 ). So, even if you are a fish-oil enthusiast, give this blogpost a chance and read on... Still ahead of print is a study by Montano and some European colleagues ( Mont...
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