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How Much Should I Take?

Supplements and Nutrition
#1

i have hopefully a quick question… unfortunately due to financial strain, i really cant afford Flameout here at Biotest, although someday i would really like to try it. anyway, because of that i am forced to buy huge supplies of it at sam’s club.

the stuff i get is a mixture of fish oil, flaxseed, borage, and safflower. the nutrition facts looks like:

Serving Size 1 capsule
Fish oil 800 mg
EPA 180mg
DHA 120mg
Borage Seed oil 50 mg
GLA 11 mg
LA 18 mg
OA 7 mg
Flaxseed Oil 200 mg
ALA 75 mg
LA 18 mg
OA 21 mg
Safflower Oil
CLA 140 mg
OA 15 mg

my question is: how many should i take a day? i was taking probably 10 regular fish oil capsules a day, i really need it for my back/joint issues. any input would be great guys, thanks in advance!

#2

Why you taking a shit mix if all you want is fish oil? Go to your department store and look at fish oil tabs, i found one with 530mg of DHA/ capsule at my store, really cheap too. Course that probably says somthing about the quality…

#3

Yeah those ones look like they have too much other shit in them. You can buy regular FISH OIL pills anywhere.

What I did when I made a similar move; due to finances, was I bought fish oil and then figured out how many I’d need to take to match the #'s in Flameout.

Figure out if that is worthwhile from your point of view.

#4

I buy Sam’s club’s Omega Fish Oil pills, they do have the Fish Oil only pills you know. If you end up buying those I would suggest taking between 10-20 b/c of how low the dha/epa is in each pill. No matter what fish oil you take you need atleast 3g total of epa/dha or more…something to consider when taking these products…

#5

I agree with the others on just getting the fish oil pills. I get the fish oil pills from Costco with 400 soft gels in the bottle. My dog eats one twice a day with her meals. I also take at least 12 a day or more depending on whether I work out that day or not.

I wouldn’t say the pills you mentioned are bad, but they are not going to give you the same benefits as the fish oil only pills, in my opinion. I take a similar pill, 3/6/9 with less ingredients than the one you listed, one pill three times a day. But for inflammation and pain management I rely on the fish oil pills.

Christopher