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The Good Krill & Salmon Oil That's Bad For You: Increased Risk of Metabolic Syndrome in Men Who Supplement

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Recent Human Cross-Over Trial Puts "?" Behind Super-Supplement Status of Omega-3 Supplements Increases in omega-3 intake are among the"small dietary modifications" doctors and nutritionists like to suggest to their patients in their common battle against obesity that are comparatively easy to achieve. It is thus no wonder that millions are enthralled by the cheap fish, krill, cod and salmon oil caps you can buy in every supermarket, these days. The often (namely when they're rancid) disgustingly tasting content of the pills is believed to offer absolution from all your dietary sins, because epidemiologic (Villegas. 2011; Djoussé. 2011) and animal evidence suggested that these n–3 PUFAs may in fact improve insulin sensitivity and metabolic risk. You can learn more about omega-3 & co at the SuppVersity Fish Oil Makes You Rancid? POPs in Fish Oils are Toxic! N3/N6 Ratio Doesn't Matter MUFA & Fish Oil Don't Match Fish Oil Do...
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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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Whey Protein Hydrolysates are the Past! Salmon Protein Hydrolysate Can Deliver Protein Even Faster, But Does This Also Mean They Are More "Anabolic"?

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That's salmon, yes, but it's not processed enough to compete with any hydrolysate. Well, unless you decide to eat and regurgitate it - after some time, obviously, 'cause "hydrolyzed" proteins are in the end only pre-digested proteins. As a SuppVersity reader you know that the amount of protein is not the only determinant of the potential muscle building effects of a given protein source. The digestion time and thus the amount of protein that is released into the bloodstream on a "per minute"-basis, as well as the amino acid profile (preferably all essential amino acids ( EAA s) and a high amount of leucine ) are also important determinants of the " anabolic " qualities of a given protein source. Using a quite unique multi-compartmental dynamic model that closely simulates in vivo gastrointestinal tract digestion in humans scientists from the Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods (INAF) at the Université Laval in Quebec, di...
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True or False? Butter, Ghee, Lard & Tallow - Are Saturated Animals Fats the Kings and Queens of the Frying Pan?

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Even if animal fats were the best frying fats, this wouldn't turn doughnuts into "health food" and french fries into raw carrot sticks. If you "liked" the SuppVersity on Facebook ( www.facebook.com/SuppVersity ) you will probably already have seen the controversies and questions my post "Scientists on the Quest for the Perfect Frying Oil" ( read more ) has triggered. Eventually, it all revolves around yet another of those nutritional wisdoms that's circulating on the Internet: "Ghee, tallow, lard, ... saturated animal fats and the coconut miracle, of course, are the best and only frying oils you should use ." (next best Internet source) How on earth could F. Aladedunye, and R. Przybylski, the authors of the previously cited study even dare to state that high-oleic low-linolenic rapeseed , high-oleic sunflower oils are good frying oils? But enough of the sarcasm : In today's installment of "True or False" (read pre...
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Underestimated Vitamin D Sources: Especially Eggs, But Also Chicken, Pork, Fish & Dairy Contain an Overlooked, Physiologically Relevant Amount of Ready-Made 25OHD

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What do you need for a high 25OHD picnic at the beach? Eggs! Regular SuppVersity readers know: The slowly abating vitamin D hype is driving me up the walls. Whenever you search a database for recent articles with the word "vitamin" in it, you are flooded with papers on vitamin D - many of them simplistic adulations without any new data or information. Others are totally irrelevant experiments on cell lines or non-significant epidemiological analyses, where no one can tell you whether the low vitamin D levels are mechanistically or corollarily involved in whatever the scientists are trying to tell you vitamin D was beneficial for. Among all this mess, you can still find a handful of interesting papers. You just have to look close enough to spot gems such as a review by Ovesen, Brot, and Jakobsen (2013). Are Eggs the Best Dietary Vitamin D Source We Have? "Eggs? The best vitamin D source?" I don't have the hubris to say that eggs are the absolute #1, ...
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Fish Oil Compromises, Fish Improves Adiponectin Levels in "Overweight, But Healthy" Individuals. Neither Promotes Weight or Fat Loss Within a 4-Week Study Period

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Fish are smart, they tell you about the good things "omega-3" fatty acids will do, without pointing you to the fact that eating them will yield a more favorable DHA:EPA ratio than popping pills that are made from the same remnants of their deceased relatives the fishery industry has dumbed for decades. With the vitamin D news the other day ( go back ), you are now probably thinking "hell, no Adel's other favorite topic to rant about"... an yes! You are right: I just like to rant against mainstream stupidity and one-size-fits-it all approaches everybody loves because they are so "easy"! Take your fish oil! And everything is going to be all right. Much easier and so much more compelling, than my advice to eat fatty fish at least once, better twice or thrice a week to promote , not magically achieve metabolic health. And while you've heard about the anabolic and blood pressure lowering benefits of fish protein in previous articles, here at t...
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