Seal Oil

[Chesticles]

I was doing some research on seal oil, but I can't seem to find anything I was looking for. I have an unlimited supply of seal oil capsules because my father has a friend in Norway who produces them. I can get bottles and bottles of these things. I want to start taking them but the bottles are in Norwegian and I don't know how many to take daily, on the bottle it says (Anbefalt dagsdose 4-6 kapsler daglig). I guess this is 4 to 6 daily, this seems like alot. Do I take them with meals ,4-6 at once. Any info would help alot. I know some people would say find the guy you get them from for information but I don't know him and he only comes over from Norway once a year. I do know that everyone over there swears by these seal oil capsules.

Thanks

[BRD]

You serious ???

[ShockBoxer]

Nice family friend. That's some expensive and high quality **** you've got access to.

Seal oil is like fish oil only more potent. Newfoundland produces it as well. Here's a fact sheet. It doesn't help with the daily dosage... I'd have to check a pharmacy around here for that... but I'm guessing two to four is about right.

http://www.tidespoint.com/health/seal_oil.shtml

It's always nice to find a use for the god-damned fish stock depleting filthy sea rats.

[Built]

Cool!

Dunno how many to take - I take 10g of fish oil daily, this stuff looks more concentrated than fish oil ... ?

Let us know how much you end up taking.

Oh, I trickle my fish oil in with non-starchy meals (because I eat the starchy ones around my lifts, and I don't feel like having fish burps when I squat, yanno?)

[Unreal]

Fresh squeezed baby seals. Yummy.

[Built]

Totally.

[Rock]

its a hardcore oil, take 3capsules in the morning and 3 before bedtime, usually with a meal.

[javyn]

I'm sure the environmentalist wackos are going to love this. Is seal oil better than regular fish oil, like say, salmon?



edit: nevermind, I missed the link in an earlier reply.

[Built]

Clearly, it is.

[Shao-LiN]

Aim for like 3g of EPA/DHA per day or more and you'll be fine. 3-6g seems to be the recommended sweet spot.

[Chesticles]

Thanks guys, my father takes 2 in the morning and then 2 more in the evening. He loves the stuff. I was just wondering if this was to much, my friends say take that amount also, one thing I'm confused about is that I went and found some other oil supplements like cod liver oil and on the bottle it says take 1 a day in the morning with a meal. Just wondering why 4 seal oil caps compared to one cod liver capsule if the seal oil is more potent?

[Bruise Brubaker]

Cod liver oil is mostly a Vitamin A/D supplement, and most cod l.o. supplement don't have that much omega 3.
I think the only bad thing about too much omega 3 is that it thins the blood so much that, in case you cut yourself, you could bleed too much.

I envy you.

[javyn]

Amen to that. I started megadosing my salmon oil, and when I cut my finger while I was chopping onions, bright orange blood started squirting all over the place. Scared the hell out of me. Since then I've moderated my salmon oil intake, but this seal oil still intrigues me....

Not to mention, too much of all that fat soluble made me sick to my stomach after a while!

[BRD]

does no one care about the seals ?? :confused:

[ShockBoxer]

does no one care about the seals ?? :confused:

Not in the slightest. You wouldn't either if you knew how much of a menace they are. See, most of their natural predators are nearly extinct, thanks to us, so their populations always balloon out of control now.

Nature has a great way of dealing with this, of course... they eat all the fish, there is no more fish, they starve to death by the tens of thousands.

Where the problem lies with letting nature sort it out is that there are humans living where seals live... and beeches filled with rotting corpses is an unhealty situation for anyone, man or animal. That's just the environmental part of it, of course. The other part is that people depend on those fish that seal colonies eat by the millions of tonnes a day... and if history between man and animal has shown anything it's that we don't like competition.

Anything that gets between us and feeding our children dies.

I don't mind true environmentalists, who see the big picture... but those that knee-jerk the reaction 'anything man does is evil... let the animals live' I just don't get. How is selectively killing a few hundred thousand and getting use from them particularly worse than letting millions of the sea going rats starve to death? You know, other than the whole letting them starve causes hardship for us as well thing.

There's nothing particularly noble or challenging about hunting seal, no. They have no chance of getting away... they have practically no survival instinct out of the water. But there's nothing particulary challenging about hunting chicken or cows either. While killing domestic animals has its opposition (Foolish. What would they have us do? Set them free so they can destroy the ecosystem they were flushed into? No. Most can't survive in the wild anyways, dairy cows in particular because of their permanent milk production, so we would have to kill them all. Is that what is wanted?) it gets nowhere near the international recognition and attention as seal killing.

We screwed up the balance of nature. It was our fault. We have no choice but to step into a few roles mother nature was forced to abandon in order to keep the entire thing running. It's as simple as that.

Hunting seals is not like hunting buffalo or whales to near extinction. Those were short sighted and stupid. This is better for the earth itself.

[Shao-LiN]

But they're so cute!

[Chesticles]

ShockBoxer I couldn't of said it better myself, very well put. Something has to be done about the seal population no doubt. Its people like green peace that give everyone a false view of the seal hunt. They are not clubbed anymore like those staged green peace videos where they pay fisherman to torture the seals in front of the camera and let viewers believe this is what happens. Also those little cute white coat seals have been killed since the 80's. It is illegal to kill those, but once again what do green peace show on there videos, little white coats in front of the camera looking like they are crying. Give me a break. Seals, when killed all of their meat is used, even the penis is used in china for belived sexual enhancement. There pelt is used for various products and seal oil is put into capsules, alot of cosmetics, medical creams, and you would be suprised to find out that seal oil is used in alot of butter.

[darkdan]

A baby seals walks into a club.

[Shao-LiN]

I stand by my "but they're so cute" defense.

[Unreal]

Cute animal taste the best.

Just think of how tender and protein packed Bambi would be.

[BRD]

Shockboxer, Makes alot sense and thanks for taking the time to explain it.
Never looked at it in that sort of way before, it was just a shock at first for me to see people eating anything coming from a seal.

[Shao-LiN]

I don't see it as any different than people eating something coming from chickens or beef.

[djreef]

I wonder if we could milk seals?

Seriously though, the reason seal's oil (from cold water) has higher concentrations of good stuff is that they are top line predators. They actually distill the oils from the coldwater fish that they live on in their own body tissues - ie concentrating them - in the same way that sharks and tuna concentrate heavy metals in their tissues from the smaller fish that they eat. You think seal oil is the bomb - you ought to try Killer Whale Oil. Ok, maybe we won't go there.

DJ