Paleo Diet and Paleolithic Diet Questions & Answers

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Which do you prefer as your source of omega 3 supplementation and why?

flag	asked May 28 2012 at 20:54 Shawn 1,485●7●26

foreveryoung · Answer 1 · 2012-06-11 21:40:19Z UTC

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Do you really need to supplement? If you're eating a proper paleo diet which includes seafood and grass fed meats, you're getting ample omega 3s PUFA. More is not always better, and here instead of spending 25 bucks a month or so on fish oil, you could get about 2lbs of wild caught salmon.

answered Jun 11 at 21:40

foreveryoung
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Investment towards future? And you can definitely find quality fish oil for cheaper than quality salmon, especially if you don't live in an area with active fishing industry. – Roth Jun 11 at 23:09

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ROth, I know that fish oil is less expansive than wild salmon. I was just saying that eating real food is better than supplementing, and it doesn't make sense to supplement when a large part of the paleo lifestyle is about eating real food. I don't think all the supplements and what not are necessary. – foreveryoung Jun 11 at 23:37

I do eat wild alaskan salmon (although it comes frozen, if that means anything in terms of quality) about 4 times a week in 4oz-8oz portions, so I may be getting enough. Supplements are just convenient to have for traveling or times when I'm not able to eat a lot of O3s. – Shawn Jun 12 at 11:36

Grassfed meats (beef, you mean) are not high in omega-3s. – Matt Jun 12 at 12:29

Nobody's disagreeing that food > supplements, foreveryoung. – Roth Jun 12 at 16:55

Matt · Answer 2 · 2012-05-28 20:57:43Z UTC

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Both do the trick. Fish oil is cheaper so that's what I use. Krill oil salesmen really sound like they're passing off snake oil to me. Or at least a little like Ron Popeil: There's more!™

answered May 28 2012 at 20:57

Matt
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	I would really like to see a Ronco fish oil! – Jen Jun 12 at 6:36
	(mostly for the car-wreck lookie-loo value) – Jen Jun 12 at 6:37

Marnie · Answer 3 · 2012-05-28 21:08:16Z UTC

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I did use Grizzly Salmon oil. Right now I'm using Coconut oil. I'm curious about Krill, they make it sound better than anything. Guess the other poster might be correct... If it sounds to good to be true it is.

answered May 28 2012 at 21:08

Marnie
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Why are you taking coconut oil as an omega-3 supplement? That just doesn't make sense at all. Coconuts have practically no PUFAs let alone omega-3's. Not that coconut isn't great for its own reasons, of course. :-) – greymouser Jun 11 at 22:03

Good link · Answer 4 · 2012-06-12 06:32:35Z UTC

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http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/inflammation/why-krill-oil/

answered Jun 12 at 6:32

Good link
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Krill oil versus fish oil for omega 3s

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