A Prize for the first person who comes up with a photo of a Nutritionist clubbing a baby seal to get at it’s “life-giving oil”. Just think what we could do with an image like that…

The horrible thought occurs that a certain person, trained in psychology, is all too aware of this and so keeps churning the stuff out. But you know my opinion is that rebutting such exaggerated claims and making reliable, accurate information available the public domain is of great value in itself. People might slowly catch on and, at the very least, those who make unsubstantiated claims can’t plead ignorance of the real facts.

Ref 1, part 1, pg 42:

Another negative factor is alcohol. It not only blocks the conversion of fats into DHA, but dissolves fatty acids within the brain’s membranes and replaces DHA with a poor substitute docosapentaenoic acid (DPA). This may be one of the main reasons why alcohol consumption is associated with mental impairment.

Ref 2, part 2, pg 82:

Alcohol worsens your memory by dissolving fatty acids within brain cells and replacing the beneficial brain-building omega-3 DHA with a poor substitute, docosapentaenoic acid or DPA.

One has to assume that he is discussing the Omega 6 rather than Omega 3 form of DPA but the reader could use some situational guidance. Oddly enough, the newsletter contained no such caveats among the paens of praise and the dubbing of DPA as one of the new musketeers of the fatty acids.

I must pop this into another post or this one and give you the hat-tip.

The trouble with relying so much on animal cell lines and in vitro studies is that it really doesn’t always scale into similar activity on human cells or in the overall human organism.

Even when the research is justifiably optimistic about something, there is no reason to believe that the formulation of untested supplements would have comparable effects: ConsumerLabs in the US frequently reports that supplements do not label their contents accurately.