Post by erictalmant on Mar 30, 2009 8:11:23 GMT -5
Hey guys. The following comes from David Vaughn, who is very well respected in the Metabolic Typing® community:
Finding or producing pure krill oil is very difficult and so far I haven’t found any that is safe. Most of it is highly contaminated with arsenic and they don’t even have to tell you it contains it. Mercury is often assayed but arsenic is totally natural and is almost NEVER assayed.
A very good friend of mine who produces high-end fish oil was just offered a tanker full of krill oil from the Antarctic at a great price. It was +7% arsenic in content. And this was no exception to normal krill oil it turns out. He refused the order after consulting with me, but someone else grabbed it up immediately. You will find it on the shelves in the next month or so.
To make things worse, the process for purifying krill oil leaves part of it highly oxidized and dangerously contaminated with “natural” chemicals. So much so that I believe that almost all krill oil is very unhealthy.
What is really scary is that this is the same problem for fish oil. In fact, there are only two “safe” fish oils that I know of: Pharmax and Seroyal. All other oil producers process their oils by distillation using alcohol and/or chemicals to improve levels of DHA and EPA. This process creates lots of ethyl esters which are either just left in the product or the oil is further processed to produce a reconstituted triglycerides. They can still claim to have very high levels of “pure DHA and EPA”. They just don’t mention the toxins not do they have to. Pharmax and Seroyal use natural lipases to refine the oil. This process does not leave behind the harmful chemicals and oxidized fraction. Ultra Life is aware of this newly exposed information and is responding to it quickly. As usually, Bill and Ultra Life are right on top of the latest advances and improvements (thanks guys).
Cod liver oil has a serious problem too. So much so that even the worst con man in the industry (Mercola) is now recommending against it after peddling it like a fiend for years: articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/12/23/important-cod-liver-oil-update.aspx
Funny how he changes his tune so often, huh? It appears to be solely based on what he is trying to see rather than the public’s health.
So, do not believe anything you read. Ask questions and investigate. The world of so-called healthy, organic and natural food products is as corrupt as the pharmaceutical industry. There are crooks and liars everywhere and they do not care one little bit about the health and wellbeing of their customers. It is a Caveat Emptor world out there.
Sorry for this sad, discouraging but factual news.
Only Pharmax and Seroyal are safe and pure. I am totally certain they use the correct processing (no chemicals or heat, only lipase) and assay every batch. Ultra Life either has or will quickly have the Pharmax oil on hand. If you (or anyone else) would like I can email you the description of the processing only they use.
They are also about to release a new cod liver oil using vacuum distillation which will be the best.
Integrative Therapeutics is using the chemical extraction process on their fish oils. Only Pharmax and Seroyal use lipase as far as I know.
Pharmax is right on the verge of having cod liver oil that is processed using the same method as their fish oil, which has no synthetics and is refined only by enzymes.
David Vaughn
Well, folks. I am switching my fish oil supplementation to Pharmax as of this morning. I put the Carlson's in the trash, called up Ultra Life, confirmed that they have the Pharmax (and they do at a very great price!) and placed my order.
You probably won't hear this anywhere else for a few months.
Finding or producing pure krill oil is very difficult and so far I haven’t found any that is safe. Most of it is highly contaminated with arsenic and they don’t even have to tell you it contains it. Mercury is often assayed but arsenic is totally natural and is almost NEVER assayed.
A very good friend of mine who produces high-end fish oil was just offered a tanker full of krill oil from the Antarctic at a great price. It was +7% arsenic in content. And this was no exception to normal krill oil it turns out. He refused the order after consulting with me, but someone else grabbed it up immediately. You will find it on the shelves in the next month or so.
To make things worse, the process for purifying krill oil leaves part of it highly oxidized and dangerously contaminated with “natural” chemicals. So much so that I believe that almost all krill oil is very unhealthy.
What is really scary is that this is the same problem for fish oil. In fact, there are only two “safe” fish oils that I know of: Pharmax and Seroyal. All other oil producers process their oils by distillation using alcohol and/or chemicals to improve levels of DHA and EPA. This process creates lots of ethyl esters which are either just left in the product or the oil is further processed to produce a reconstituted triglycerides. They can still claim to have very high levels of “pure DHA and EPA”. They just don’t mention the toxins not do they have to. Pharmax and Seroyal use natural lipases to refine the oil. This process does not leave behind the harmful chemicals and oxidized fraction. Ultra Life is aware of this newly exposed information and is responding to it quickly. As usually, Bill and Ultra Life are right on top of the latest advances and improvements (thanks guys).
Cod liver oil has a serious problem too. So much so that even the worst con man in the industry (Mercola) is now recommending against it after peddling it like a fiend for years: articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/12/23/important-cod-liver-oil-update.aspx
Funny how he changes his tune so often, huh? It appears to be solely based on what he is trying to see rather than the public’s health.
So, do not believe anything you read. Ask questions and investigate. The world of so-called healthy, organic and natural food products is as corrupt as the pharmaceutical industry. There are crooks and liars everywhere and they do not care one little bit about the health and wellbeing of their customers. It is a Caveat Emptor world out there.
Sorry for this sad, discouraging but factual news.
Only Pharmax and Seroyal are safe and pure. I am totally certain they use the correct processing (no chemicals or heat, only lipase) and assay every batch. Ultra Life either has or will quickly have the Pharmax oil on hand. If you (or anyone else) would like I can email you the description of the processing only they use.
They are also about to release a new cod liver oil using vacuum distillation which will be the best.
Integrative Therapeutics is using the chemical extraction process on their fish oils. Only Pharmax and Seroyal use lipase as far as I know.
Pharmax is right on the verge of having cod liver oil that is processed using the same method as their fish oil, which has no synthetics and is refined only by enzymes.
David Vaughn
Well, folks. I am switching my fish oil supplementation to Pharmax as of this morning. I put the Carlson's in the trash, called up Ultra Life, confirmed that they have the Pharmax (and they do at a very great price!) and placed my order.
You probably won't hear this anywhere else for a few months.
I've got a load of Neptune krill oil i'm finishing up at the mo, and then i will move to the Pharmax stuff. I'm still not that convinced that the Neptune krill oil is that bad, but fish oil is more cost effective. Neptune are very open about their processes - i emailed them about concerns over hexane use in krill oil extraction, and they openly stated in no uncertain terms that hexanes are NOT used in their extraction process. They even put up the statement on their website.