<p>[Kirkland</a> Signature? Omega-3 Fish Oil, 180 Softgels](<a href=“http://www.costco.com/Kirkland-Signature™-Omega-3-Fish-Oil%2C-180-Softgels.product.11248464.html]Kirkland”>http://www.costco.com/Kirkland-Signature™-Omega-3-Fish-Oil%2C-180-Softgels.product.11248464.html)</p>
<p>Whats the rest of your diet like?
Is there a particular reason that you think you need it?</p>
<p>[Fish</a> oils linked to higher risk of prostate cancer | TIME.com](<a href=“http://healthland.time.com/2013/07/11/hold-the-salmon-omega-3-fatty-acids-linked-to-higher-risk-of-cancer/]Fish”>Fish oils linked to higher risk of prostate cancer | TIME.com)</p>
<p>I take four of those 1200 mg capsules a day. 4800 mg daily. That’s kind of a moderate dose. Not crazy high, but you could argue for less. Nobody really knows the optimum amount.</p>
<p>Emerald:</p>
<p>I don’t know where Time magazine got that headline. None of the subjects in that study were taking fish oil supplements – or even eating much fish. Their levels of Omega-3s were very low across the board. I don’t know how people not taking fish oil getting or not getting prostate cancer links anything to taking fish oil.</p>
<p>This is perhaps a better link.
[Link</a> between high blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids and prostate cancer - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center](<a href=“http://www.fhcrc.org/en/news/releases/2013/07/omega-three-fatty-acids-risk-prostate-cancer.html]Link”>http://www.fhcrc.org/en/news/releases/2013/07/omega-three-fatty-acids-risk-prostate-cancer.html)</p>
<p>Wouldn’t simply eating 4oz. of fresh fish (salmon, for example) be ideal?</p>
<p>That study was debunked pretty thoroughly in the diet and exercise thread starting about here:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/16156076-post29419.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/16156076-post29419.html</a></p>
<p>I’m not going to re-post all the links, you can find them easily there.</p>
<p>I take enough fish oil to give me 2-2.5 gm of omega-3 per day, which is the amount recommended by the Life Extension Foundation. For the brand I am currently taking, that is 4 caps/day.</p>
<p>Even the Fred Hutchinson link headline is extremely misleading. There were no subjects in the cohorts they studied who had high blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids. Across the board, the levels in the subject were low – far lower than you would see in someone taking fish oil and lower than you would see in people who even eat moderate amounts of fish.</p>
<p>How can you link high levels of omega 3 to prostrate cancer when none of the people in your study actually had high levels of omega 3?</p>
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<p>The brand I take is 360 mg of EPA/DHA omega-3 per capsule, so i’m getting 1.44 grams per day of extra Omega 3.</p>
<p>To put that into some perspetive, a 4 ounce portion of salmon has 1 to 2 grams of EPA/DHA Omega-3 fatty acid. So, Lake Washington is right. Eating salmon or similar fish everyday would probably be ideal – unless you believe these latest sensational headlines which imply eating fish is bad for you because it is “linked” to prostate cancer.</p>
<p>Before you stop eating fish, consider the number of studies that have shown links between insulin resistance, obesity, and cancers that actually kill people:</p>
<p>[Obesity</a>, Insulin Resistance, and Cancer Risk](<a href=“http://www.nypcancerprevention.com/archive_newsletter/issue/5/con/features/pre_ear-2.shtml]Obesity”>http://www.nypcancerprevention.com/archive_newsletter/issue/5/con/features/pre_ear-2.shtml)</p>
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<p>I take fish oil because it may be part of the equation in improving the markers associated with lower insulin resistance. For example, the classic marker for insulin resistance is high triglycerides and low HDL on your cholesterol test. Increasing Omega 3 fats raises HDL. Reducing sugars and carbs lowers triglycerides. Insulin resistance has become such a hot topic in cancer research that I’m convinced the cancer researchers (not nutrition “experts”) will figure out the diet side of things… A strong case can be made that the food pyramid, with its suggestion to eat mass quantities of grains morning, noon, and night, has actually undermined our public health – obesity, type 2 diabetes, and even cancer. Insulin resistant people cannot tolerate those levels of carbs.</p>
<p>So, the question becomes: if I stop eating salmon, what do I replace it with? We have to eat something. I personally believe that every bite of sugar and grains I can replace with a bite of salmon is a check mark on the positive side of the ledger. Or, looking at it another way. Insulin resistance is so tightly linked to obesity that I can just be fatalistic about it. In the highly unlikely event that eating salmon kills me from prostate cancer, at least I’ll have spent my latter years looking good in my skinny jeans! :)</p>
<p>I take 2 of those Kirkland softgels per day. (So does my dog. 
) My new doctor told me that I could increase it to 3 per day if I wished. (For me, not the dog.)</p>