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Real Talk, Whole Life

Episode 415: Fish oil, Healthy or not?

Real Talk, Whole Life

Cloud10

News, Social Sciences, Entertainment News, Science, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Listener Question: "Hi ladies, thank you for your wonderful podcast. I listen every week, and I love everything, from the science to the soapboxes. My question has to do with fish oil. Specifically, I've heard mixed research on whether or not it is healthy for people to take as a supplement. It seems there is a lot of people that say that adding a fish oil supplement is really beneficial, but I recently attended a lecture where they were talking about how it can be damaging to the cells due to how it is extracted, and that we actually don't need it as much as we thought. As with anything diet and nutrition-related, there always seem to be many camps that people fall into, and I would love to hear your balanced approach on the science!" - Katie You can find the full show notes with links to the products and articles discussed on this episode here. Don’t forget to subscribe to this channel and visit realeverything.com and thepaleomom.com!  If you haven't yet unlocked our bonus content, checkout Patreon for exclusive behind-the-scenes content and how Stacy and Dr. Sarah really feel about the topics they discuss. Your subscription goes to support this show and gets you direct access to submit your questions!  A special thank you to Rosita for being this week's sponsor. You can visit them at this link here and use the code 'thewholeview' to receive 5% off your order. Rosita was the brand that made Sarah feel comfortable about taking fish oil again. Quality is really important, and Rosita's fresh cod liver oil (not fermented) is so fresh and wild-caught from sustainable fish. It is so clean that they don't even need to add flavoring to it. This is extra virgin cod liver oil that is top quality and is the brand that Stacy and Sarah choose for themselves and their families. They offer both the oil and the capsules. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the whole view. I'm Stacy Top of Real Everything.

0:05.0

I'm Staceytop of Real Everything.com.

0:09.0

I'm all about loving the skin you're in and being healthy inside and out.

0:14.0

And I'm Dr. Sarah Valentine of the paleumum.com.

0:18.0

I believe that scientific literacy is the key to improving public health. Welcome back to the whole view.

0:27.0

Episode 415.

0:31.0

I'm Jazzed that we are revisiting a topic that has been laid

0:39.3

with controversy for years and I love revisiting and updating science on things. I have a story that I want to share about fish oil for both our listeners and and Sarah hasn't heard the story yet so I'm excited.

0:53.2

I have not. Me too. So I recently had an appointment with one of my children who has AEDD, AEDH, with a new

1:07.2

pre-iatrician that they've been going to. And it's the same one who formally

1:11.4

diagnosed this child for the purposes of getting educational

1:15.9

support and that kind of stuff.

1:18.2

And so he knows that we manage this with lifestyle and that the child is doing fine without medication and that's a goal

1:25.5

that we're trying to avoid.

1:28.2

And so I was talking to him about some of the challenges that I had at home, which we will talk about later.

1:35.0

I know we have a future show planned on that,

1:38.5

but I was talking to the doctor about some of these challenges

1:42.0

and seeking his advice on if there

1:44.7

were alternate solutions to a stimulant and one of the things that he said was I needed to increase the fish oil that this child was getting.

2:00.0

Who is on fish oil, but he was like, no, no, you need to increase to such and such a dose beyond what is recommended because of how this affects his brain and the fish oil will likely help him focus more.

2:18.0

And I was like,

2:19.0

look at this normal doctor being like thoughtful and you know using science in a like non-prescription

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