Fish Oil vs Krill Oil

I was told by my vendors that KRILL oil is "3x better than fish oil" …I think a reality check is in order.

I have been teaching classes on Omega fatty acids for over 10 years. The marine source oils are without question beneficial. EFAs have two principal roles.

1- EFAs provide flexibility and stability to the cell membrane. All living organisms must be able to transport nutrients into and out of the cell. This biochemical processes is the key to life. TOXINS must be moved out and foods need to be moved in. If the cell wall is too thick, fat or inflexible then the cell will begin to die.

2- The second big role for PAIN and INFLAMATION EFAs are a precursor for prostaglandins, local tissue hormones that control various functions including blood clotting, repair.

As you see we take fish oil because it is the primary source of nutrients that help the body MANUFACTURE chemical precursors. They are named essential because we can’t live with out them.

Krill oil is now marketed as "1 krill oil capsule=3 fish oil capsules," DEAD wrong. While Krill does have some EPA and DHA, by volume it is very low.

In one 1,000 mg. capsule of krill oil only has a total 300 mg. omega-3 fatty acids! And the important reason to take fish oil which is the EPA and DHA, KRILL has barely 150 mg. EPA and measly 90 mg. of DHA.

Patient who are at risk for heart problems, or who have advanced joint arthritis should be considering taking at least 3 to 5000 mg Daily of EFAs and the amount of EPA in this dose should be about 1600 mg the amount of DHA should be around 1400

In populations of humans where quality of life improved quickly, our human ancestors ate primarily marine source proteins. *Humans did not eat Krill. *It has barely been studied in humans. *drdavesbest.com