Fish Oil Purity
The Purity of Fish Oil is Critical to Health
We can blame ourselves for the toxic contaminants
found in the fish we eat. These toxins include mercury (from the
burning of coal), PCBs (used in electrical insulation), and
dioxins (the active ingredient in defoliants used in the Vietnam
War). Although production of PCBs and dioxins has long
been banned, they rarely break down and thus accumulate in the
marine food chain that ends with fish and then in our fish oil
supplements.
These toxins are known carcinogens and neurotoxins. In fact,
the levels in the Eskimo population, who consume large amounts
of fatty fish rich in EPA and EPA, are well above the safety
standards set by the World Health Organization (WHO), and recent
studies indicate that they are approaching the upper limits of
safety in the Japanese population.
Here lies the dilemma - how to remove these toxins to obtain all
the tremendous health benefits of EPA and DHA. The solution was
the development of a new manufacturing process for producing
ultra refined EPA/DHA concentrates. Sealogix ultra-refined,
ultra pure fish oil resulted from this problem.
Fish Oil Manufacturing
It's very difficult to remove the toxins out in fish oil. That's why most fish oils sold in health-food stores and
supermarkets should be considered the "sewer of the sea."
Since the contaminants in fish are oil-soluble, all the toxic
contaminants
are concentrated in the crude fish oil. Not a very appealing
thought if you are taking fish oil for its "health" benefits.
Obviously, all crude fish oil is highly contaminated. If
you do some minimal processing, you can get rid of the mercury,
but not the PCBs and dioxins. This minimally processed
product is what you get when you purchase inexpensive brands of
fish oil. In other words, you will also be ingesting a good dose
of PCBs and dioxins.
Slightly more expensive fish oils are given a "touch-up" via
crude distillation to remove some of the cholesterol and slight
amounts of the remaining toxins, but the EPA and DHA
concentration is low. Therefore, to get an adequate dose of
these critical long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, you have to
consume large amounts of fish oil and, thus, large amounts of
toxic contaminants. If you break apart the fatty acids to make
ethyl esters, then it is possible to concentrate the oils to
higher levels, but the PCBs and dioxins still remain.
The solution to this apparently "no-win" situation is true
molecular distillation that removes the ethyl esters of EPA and
DHA from the fish oil, leaving behind the toxic contaminants.
This finally produces rise to ultra refined EPA/DHA concentrates
like Sealogix. Sealogix ultra pure fish oils
are the two of the few
ultra refined EPA and DHA fish oils available to the general public. Now the
full spectrum of health benefits of omega 3 EPA and DHA can be
realized without the toxins that limit long-term use with
maximum compliance.
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