RE: CLO has junk in it??? Suze

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>Suze,

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>I am intrigued by all of your disucssions on CLO. I am hoping you can

>address a comment that was made to me re: CLO.

>My family currently takes ProEFA (we all take one cap a day, my 4 year

>old takes ProEFA,Jr). Anyway, the groupowner of the list where there

>is lots of discussion about EFAs makes this claim. She says that CLO

>is bad to take since the liver is a body's trash heap and why would we

>want to take oil straight from the trash heap? Why wouldn't we take

>it from a " safer " part of the fish. What is your explanation as to

>why taking oil from " the trash heap " is safe.

That's a misunderstanding of the liver's function.

The liver's main job is to *process* chemicals, not to *store* them.

Fat-soluble toxins are stored in fat - usually in adipocytes (storage

tissue). Water-soluble toxins are excreted in the urine. It's possible that

a very diseased liver cannot properly process toxins and so some may

accumulate, but for all intents and purposes you are not going to find such

livers in markets in this country because the livers of slaughtered animals

are tossed if they are diseased.

BUT, whether or not livers store toxins is a moot point when it comes to CLO

because any toxins (usually PCBs, mercury, dioxins, etc) are removed

in_the_processing. I mean, look at Nordic Naturals' assays - nearly zero

toxins. The same goes for Blue Ice. So even IF all these cod were swimming

around with trash heap livers (which is a completely unreasonable

assumption) it wouldn't matter one bit since the toxins are removed. In fact

it's probably much safer to consume the processed oil than the fish itself.

LOL

It's also important to note that it's quite probable that fish are no more

contaminated today than at other times in the planet's history because

toxins like mercury and dioxins have ALWAYS been around. In fact, mercury is

what gives plankton its reddish color and plankton are at the bottom of the

food chain in the sea. So it's always been in our diet. The only thing

that's changed is our ability to detox it. Weston Price's studies of healthy

primitive groups and their diets does a good job of addressing why that is.

>Let me tell you, I sure wish the folks on that other EFA list were

>reading all of your information-packed, well-written posts. There are

>many families out there floundering in the absence of accurate

>information.

Well thanks :-) And this saddens me about the floundering parents. Oh, btw,

if you'd like to forward any of my posts feel free.

>Thanks in advance for your reply and thank you for taking the time to

>educate us all!

You're very welcome!

I am going to order CLO capsules next time instead of

>the ProEFA. I have thought about it for a long time but your recent

>posts were the last push i needed to make the change. What brand do

>you recommend?

http://www.drrons.com/cod-liver-oil.htm or you can get it from

http://www.greenpasture.org/cod_liver_oil.php. I get mine from Dr. Ron

because I get a discount since I maintain his website. But both are the

exact same product and same price.

Suze Fisher

Lapdog Design, Inc.

Web Design & Development

http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3shjg

Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader, Mid Coast Maine

http://www.westonaprice.org

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