What is IFOS? And Should You Care? IFOS stands for International Fish Oil Standards. And yes, you definitely should care! IFOS testing program is administered by NutraSource Diagnostics at the University of Guelph in Canada. IFOS is the third party testing that everyone keeps asking me about. Thanks to IFOS, you don’t have to believe [...]

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Dale didn’t want to take fish oil pills any more. He’d given up meat, poultry and seafood. And so he no longer could take fish oil pills under his self-imposed new rules. “I have high triglycerides…so what do I take instead of fish oil?” he asked. This was a loaded question. I could give him [...]

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Every year, I spend the second weekend of march at the Natural Products Expo in Anaheim, California. It marks the arrival of spring. And I get to see people I’ve known for 20 plus years. Hundreds of natural and organic foods manufacturers and supplement companies exhibit their products. If you can elbow you way past [...]

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In early 2010, an environmental group sued several fish oil manufacturers for selling polluted fish oil. All the major TV news channels covered the stink. Every single channel re-worded the plaintiff’s press release without digging deeper. The late Paul Harvey would have dug deeper for ‘The rest of the story.‘ The products named in the [...]

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We often hear that fish oil is good for this. Or that. But we still don’t know a lot about HOW the Omega-3 in fish oil actually makes these health benefits happen. Sure, we know for certain that Omega-3 reduces triglycerides. After all, the FDA approved drug Lovaza is pharmaceutical grade fish oil. And it’s [...]

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