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Hey, it's Ben Greenfield, and I gotta tell you, taking a bad fish oil is worse than

not taking fish oil at all.

In addition, most fish oils, what they do is they produce the fish oil in what's called

an ethyl ester form, which is not how you find it in nature.

In fish, you find fish oils in their natural triglyceride form, and you also find that

the fish have natural antioxidants, like the keratinoid astazanthin and vitamin E to

cough rolls, and all these things that naturally are in the fish to keep the oil from getting

oxidized.

But barely any fish oil companies actually take any of this into account.

So the fish oil you eat is very far removed from nature.

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