Posted by LOOPS on June 24, 2005, at 18:31:38
In reply to Re: New update on my progress with fish oil etc... » LOOPS, posted by Ktemene on June 18, 2005, at 20:28:23
> Hi Loops,
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> Wow, that sure is success! Would you mind saying what your full fatty acid intake is? I know you mentioned in your post above that you take about 3 grams of fish oil, and 1-2 caps of lecithin. How much lecithin is in the caps you take? I guess the epo you mention is Evening Primrose Oil? Is that your GLA? Or are you taking something else for GLA? I was so inspired by your post that I went out today to try to find some lecithin, but the local health food store was out of it. But as soon as they get a new shipment, I will start taking it with fish oil.
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> Ktemene
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Hi -so I'm afraid my daily intake right now seems to vary a little - just because I go by intuition and am still trying to find the right ratios - and then this might change during the month anyway!
So I was just at the doctors about my rosacea (which, it turns out, isn't - plus it suddenly went down today so I didn't have much to show her! Always seems to happen that). She actually commented on how well I looked and said I seemed a lot less tense than before (I see her about once every 4/5 months about various things). So that was good to hear. She is a great supporter of vitamin E and said 200IUs is really not a large amount, and that it is more likely vitamin D that can exacerbate acne (I do take cod liver oil). I don't know about that, but I do respect her opinion on things as she is much in favour of finding natural routes to healing. She really doesn't ever push pills on me.
Anyway, that's a bit off subject.
So I think my overall EFA intake must be around 3-4g DHA/EPA plus a couple of caps flax seed oil, 1000mg evening primrose oil (90mg GLA) - although more if I've not been taking it or am feeling excessively anxious; usually a single 'triple lecithin' cap from GNC, supplying 1200mg 'high choline lecithin' aka 420mg phos. choline.
Um - what else - well the wheatgerm oil I think contains a bit of ALA and obviously LA, octacosanol and vit E.
Today I took the plunge and had 200IUs of mixed tocopherols, and also 2 large Solgar 'Earth Source Multinutrients' pills - which kinds of disses my original 'no multi' thing. However I was kind of drained this afternoon, so there was no likelihood of feeling hyped up. Also I've I can't really be bothered with the whole anti-multi thing I was starting to buy into - I don't think it does much harm really and I should just relax about it (spend my time worrying about other things perhaps).
Lecithin I originally started taking for concentration in tennis. A few things on this: when I was only taking fish oil and lots of GLA (EPO and borage oil) I did descend back into depression land, and my tennis was awful (ah the woes of my life!).
AS soon as I dropped the GLA dose to much lower and added in the lecithin I noticed my concentration was very good on the court and everything just seemed to 'flow' better. I can't believe it's all just placebo as I'm a very cynical person.
Well enough waffle.
Oh, I also notice the lecithin makes me more chatty, so it's good to take before going out if I'm not in such a sociable mood (too much GLA can make me antisocial as well, but the right amount whatever that is just calms me a bit).
I'm very interested in whether GLA has an effect on serotonin. I'm pretty sure fish oil has an effect on both dopamine and serotonin, maybe more dopamine slightly, and lecithin - well, this should be dopamine if it makes me more sociable - but it doesn' make me wired, which extra dopamine should.
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Loops
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