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Lately, many of our customers have asked about krill oil.
Is it more powerful than fish oil or just more expensive?
Here are some facts:

Omega-3 from fatty fish has been extensively researched by universities and research centers around the world the past 30 years, while it is only in the last few years that information on the use of krill oil for humans has been reported. There are more than 10,000 individual clinical trials analyzing the efficacy and safety of omega-3 fish oils while krill oil can credit only a handful of studies, all of which have been paid for by companies manufacturing krill oil.

Krill oil comes from a small shrimp-like creature which is the favorite food of whales, seals, dolphins and penquins. There are only modest amounts of omega-3 compared to fish oil, but kril oil does contain a small amount of powerful anti-oxidant and chemical substances called phospholipids which are not present in fish oil. Krill oil sellers claim ‘better absorption’ because EPA and DHA are connected to these phospholipids. However, there are no peer-reviewed reports that substantiates these claims. At the same time, proteins may be present making it risky for people prone to allergic reactions.

The anti-oxidant, astaxanthin and the phospholipids make krill oil interesting, but the lack of long-term safety studies and clinical effects warrants caution. In addition, the price is easily 10 times that of fish oil.

In Norway, one krill oil manufacturer states that krill oil increases the omega-3 index with 59% in six weeks or 100% when using four times the recommended dose. One Omega Cookie® per day increases the same index 100% in the same time. So if this is the measure of efficacy, krill oil doesn’t seem all that impressive.

Ambo Foods and Ambo Health have two guiding principles: Safety and clinical potency. At this point krill oil lacks documentation for both. Down the road, when and if krill proves to be cost-effective in improving our customers’ health, we will be happy to add it to our products. But it has to earn its place.

Reference:
Aker Bio Marine: Superba Krill, Brochure
(Superba Krill is used by Dr Mercola and MegaRed ®)

Just last weekend I attended a wedding. After the ceremony, I happened to talk with a specialist at a large fertility clinic in Oslo, Norway. She had heard about my expertise in the area of omega-3 fish oils, and of course I took the opportunity to extol the virtues of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in terms of increased sperm quality. Just last month a report came out from the Urology Research Center of the University Hospital in Tehran, Iran, analyzing the omega-3/omega-6 status of fertile and infertile men. There were about eighty-some men in both groups, and the researchers found that there was a significantly lower level of omega-3 fatty acids (including DHA and EPA) in infertile men.¹

Continue reading Making Babies

Ok, I admit it. I’m a fish oil junkie. My addiction became evident when I had a minor surgery and had to ease up on my heavy-handed use of Omega Cure^TM. Normally I use 3 teaspoons a day, and it does the trick for the myriad of health issues that come with being a middle-aged woman. Now with reduced omega-3 consumption, I had to face on my own the nemesis of womanhood: hot flashes.

On behalf of the 80 percent of women who experience hot flashes during menopause, let me tell you: it feels like the thermostat on your inner furnace has been screwed up. The body floods the skin with sweat in an effort to cool down. One girlfriend lamented, “I feel like a cooked lobster.”

Continue reading Hot News about Hot Flashes

This past Sunday, scientists announced the results of two research studies regarding omega-3, cognitive health, and aging. In both studies, DHA was the omega-3 of choice, because it plays a crucial role in brain function.

I’ll start with the bad news: Continue reading The Good and Bad News about Fish Oil and Alzheimer’s

If you’re new to Omega Cure and a little baffled by this fish oil thing, I know how you feel. I started working at Ambo Health - the makers of Omega Cure - about two and a half years ago, with only the vaguest sense of what I would be doing and whom I was working for. As it turned out, part of my job was transcribing customer comments that had been jotted down on paper (honestly! real paper!) into our computer database, so we could know more about our customers and more about Omega Cure’s reception by the public.

Many of these comments turned out to be much more interesting than “Wow, it really doesn’t taste like fish!” Instead the things I was transcribing seemed increasingly hyperbolic: Continue reading My experiences with Omega Cure, Ambo customers, and Stockholm syndrome

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