Guest guest Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 Bee has stated that it is better to take a Vitamin A with retinyl palmitate rather then one that contains soy. I'm not sure about safflower oil. I found this shark liver oil without soy or vegetable oil - it doesn't state how much Vitamin A is contained in here. Maybe someone could find out. http://www.countrylifevitamins.com/moreinfo.cfm?Category=9 & Product_ID=146 Regards, > > Hello, > > I'm trying to find an appropriate vit A supplement. I do not want to take the shark liver version as it has retinyl palmitate which is synthetic vit A and I read that sharks are becoming an endangered species. I've found fish liver sourced vit A but in the ingredients there is sallflower oil, which would be such a small amount taking 1 capsule a day. Would this be ok? > > thank you, > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 What about the idea of taking 2 doses of Natural Factors " Mega Halibut Liver Oil " in conjunction with my Green Pastures Cod Liver Oil(figuring I am getting very little sun). It would mean i'm getting somewhere near 30,000 IUs of Vitamin A, 3,800 IUs of Vitamin D. How much Vitamin D did the Alaskans get on an all fish diet? If someone knew on average how many lbs of fish they eat per day, we could figure this out. WAPF says that Vitamin D risks being toxic if there aren't ample amounts of Vitamin A and Vitamin K2. I eat lots of eggs and butter so I don't see it being an issue. I am afraid to take synthetic Vitamin A because I took another form of synthetic vitamin A in the past(isotretinoin) which damaged my health - and plus it seems intuitive that synthetic vitamins like synthetic foods are just not as healing(or counter healing). Maybe Bee can lend her insight on this? Thanks, > > Hello, > > I'm trying to find an appropriate vit A supplement. I do not want to take the shark liver version as it has retinyl palmitate which is synthetic vit A and I read that sharks are becoming an endangered species. I've found fish liver sourced vit A but in the ingredients there is sallflower oil, which would be such a small amount taking 1 capsule a day. Would this be ok? > > thank you, > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 , I wrote to country life. I'll get back to you. kelly ________________________________ Â Bee has stated that it is better to take a Vitamin A with retinyl palmitate rather then one that contains soy. I'm not sure about safflower oil. I found this shark liver oil without soy or vegetable oil - it doesn't state how much Vitamin A is contained in here. Maybe someone could find out. http://www.countryl ifevitamins. com/moreinfo. cfm?Category= 9 & Product_ ID=146 Regards, > > Hello, > > I'm trying to find an appropriate vit A supplement. I do not want to take the shark liver version as it has retinyl palmitate which is synthetic vit A and I read that sharks are becoming an endangered species. I've found fish liver sourced vit A but in the ingredients there is sallflower oil, which would be such a small amount taking 1 capsule a day. Would this be ok? > > thank you, > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 18, 2010 Report Share Posted March 18, 2010 , the rep for country life got back to me just now. She says that she doesn't have that information on the product. kelly ________________________________ Â Â Â Â Â IÂ found this shark liver oil without soy or vegetable oil - it doesn't state how much Vitamin A is contained in here. Maybe someone could find out. http://www.countryl ifevitamins. com/moreinfo. cfm?Category= 9 & Product_ ID=146 Regards, > > Hello, > > I'm trying to find an appropriate vit A supplement. I do not want to take the shark liver version as it has retinyl palmitate which is synthetic vit A and I read that sharks are becoming an endangered species. I've found fish liver sourced vit A but in the ingredients there is sallflower oil, which would be such a small amount taking 1 capsule a day. Would this be ok? > > thank you, > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 19, 2010 Report Share Posted March 19, 2010 > > What about the idea of taking 2 doses of Natural Factors " Mega Halibut Liver Oil " in conjunction with my Green Pastures Cod Liver Oil(figuring I am getting very little sun). > > It would mean i'm getting somewhere near 30,000 IUs of Vitamin A, 3,800 IUs of Vitamin D. > > How much Vitamin D did the Alaskans get on an all fish diet? If someone knew on average how many lbs of fish they eat per day, we could figure this out. > > WAPF says that Vitamin D risks being toxic if there aren't ample amounts of Vitamin A and Vitamin K2. I eat lots of eggs and butter so I don't see it being an issue. > > I am afraid to take synthetic Vitamin A because I took another form of synthetic vitamin A in the past(isotretinoin) which damaged my health - and plus it seems intuitive that synthetic vitamins like synthetic foods are just not as healing(or counter healing). +++Hi . A natural vitamin A source is so much better than any synthetic form, i.e. fish " liver " oil. All the best, Bee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 19, 2010 Report Share Posted March 19, 2010 I'm taking it easy on the eggs and butter so I don't know if that would be too much vit D for me. I think I'll just try this carlson brand, taking 1 capsule a day plus 2 tsp of cod liver oil. Unless Bee, you think that small amount of sallflower oil would be a problem? Thanks!, > > Hello, > > I'm trying to find an appropriate vit A supplement. I do not want to take the shark liver version as it has retinyl palmitate which is synthetic vit A and I read that sharks are becoming an endangered species. I've found fish liver sourced vit A but in the ingredients there is sallflower oil, which would be such a small amount taking 1 capsule a day. Would this be ok? > > thank you, > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 2010 Report Share Posted March 20, 2010 > > > > I'm taking it easy on the eggs and butter so I don't know if that would be too much vit D for me. I think I'll just try this carlson brand, taking 1 capsule a day plus 2 tsp of cod liver oil. Unless Bee, you think that small amount of sallflower oil would be a problem? +++Hi . Why would that be too much vitamin D for you? I recommend the same for all adults and it works well for everyone. My recommendations are conservative too. A small amount of safflower oil wouldn't be a problem. Bee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 20, 2010 Report Share Posted March 20, 2010 Hi Bee, on the website you recommend taking 800-1,200 IU of vit D. then mentioned that too much vit D without enough A could be toxic and I'm not sure I'm getting enough vit A. would I just need the recommended amount on your site (20,000-30,000 IU) to be ok for having that much vit D? And actually I've just recently read on the Dr. Mercola website that too much vit A inhibits the vit D. and now he recommends not taking cod liver oil after previously highly recommending it. so I'm a bit confused on that. Thank you, > > > > > > > > I'm taking it easy on the eggs and butter so I don't know if that would be too much vit D for me. I think I'll just try this carlson brand, taking 1 capsule a day plus 2 tsp of cod liver oil. Unless Bee, you think that small amount of sallflower oil would be a problem? > > +++Hi . Why would that be too much vitamin D for you? I recommend the same for all adults and it works well for everyone. My recommendations are conservative too. > > A small amount of safflower oil wouldn't be a problem. > > Bee > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 > > Hi Bee, > > on the website you recommend taking 800-1,200 IU of vit D. then mentioned that too much vit D without enough A could be toxic and I'm not sure I'm getting enough vit A. would I just need the recommended amount on your site (20,000-30,000 IU) to be ok for having that much vit D? And actually I've just recently read on the Dr. Mercola website that too much vit A inhibits the vit D. and now he recommends not taking cod liver oil after previously highly recommending it. so I'm a bit confused on that. +++Hi . Here's the amounts in my supplements article you should be getting: http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/supp1.php#ab Dr. Mercola is totally wrong about that - see this rebuttal to his new recommendations about vitamin A by the Weston A. Price Foundation: http://www.westonaprice.org/Cod-Liver-Oil-Setting-the-Record-Straight.html Dr. Mercola provides a great service, however he gets many things wrong, so use wise judgement when reading his articles. Bee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Hi Bee, I'm getting the required amount of D and A vit. Thank you for the article regarding fish oil. > > > > Hi Bee, > > > > on the website you recommend taking 800-1,200 IU of vit D. then mentioned that too much vit D without enough A could be toxic and I'm not sure I'm getting enough vit A. would I just need the recommended amount on your site (20,000-30,000 IU) to be ok for having that much vit D? And actually I've just recently read on the Dr. Mercola website that too much vit A inhibits the vit D. and now he recommends not taking cod liver oil after previously highly recommending it. so I'm a bit confused on that. > > +++Hi . Here's the amounts in my supplements article you should be getting: > http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/supp1.php#ab > > Dr. Mercola is totally wrong about that - see this rebuttal to his new recommendations about vitamin A by the Weston A. Price Foundation: > http://www.westonaprice.org/Cod-Liver-Oil-Setting-the-Record-Straight.html > > Dr. Mercola provides a great service, however he gets many things wrong, so use wise judgement when reading his articles. > > Bee > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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