My experiences with Omega Cure, Ambo customers, and Stockholm syndrome
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: “My arthritis pains are completely gone,” “My doctor is amazed at the reduction in my triglycerides,” and my personal favorite, “My sex life has never been better!” (It’s hard to know what to say to that one.) While all of this evidence was anecdotal, I found myself afflicted with Stockholm syndrome and, like my bosses (the company’s founders), thinking that Omega Cure was the solution to everything. You know how the father in My Big Fat Greek Wedding thinks you can fix anything by “putting Windex on it”? That’s how we feel about fish oil. (My friend May-Elise, the doctors’ daughter, once mixed fish oil with green tea and made a facial out of it. She would tell you that it helped clear her skin, but personally even I am not comfortable recommending oil on your face as a treatment for acne.)
Fortunately, science is backing up a lot of our heartfelt devotion. If you’re ever in the mood to discover how research scientists spend their lives, take a gander at pubmed.gov, a database of scientific research. Type in a search for “omega-3″ and the titles of the articles that come up seem almost as ridiculous as those old testimonials I copied down. “Anticancer actions of omega-3 fatty acids,” “Omega-3 fatty acid treatment of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder,” “Dietary omega-3 fatty acids attenuate cellular damage after a hippocampal ischemic insult in adult rats.” Frankly, I don’t even know what that last one means. (As far as I can tell, someone insulted a bunch of rats, but fish oil made them feel better. That sounds about right.) The point is that while the research is preliminary, and this is just a tiny portion of it, it’s almost always positive, and in an astonishing variety of studies. Not to mention that these studies are numerous – in the past 50 years, over 25,000 fish oil studies have been performed all over the world.
So whether you’re a doctor ogling research journals or a manicurist noticing how strong your nails have become, don’t feel bad: we all fall for fish oil sometime.
Sincerely,
Mary Gaulke, a very miscellaneous employee of Ambo Health