What’s Better Krill or Fish Oil?

The reason health minded consumers take fish oil is for the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids. In this regard, krill oil supplements fall short. The product with the highest concentration of omega-3’s from krill oil that we are aware of provides only 400mg’s of omega-3’s, 150mg’s of EPA, and only 90mg’s of DHA per serving. This pales in comparison to the amount of rich, pure nutrients in OmegaGuard-1000 mg’s of omega-3’s, 545mg’s of EPA, and 360mg’ s of DHA. In other words, Shaklee OmegaGuard provides 2 ½ times more omega-3’s, more than 3 times the EPA and 4 times more DHA than krill oil supplements.

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Editor’s Note: Krill Oil Kraze

Shaklee Corporation will not produce products that are the latest craze like krill oil unless there is good scientific support and krill oil does not have the research.

Many are aware of mercola.com,  Dr. Joe Mercola’s website for health and wellness. He has regular email newsletter that goes out for free. This newsletter is a bit more commercial than it needs to be; however, each email typically contains an interesting research article. Recently, Mercola has been heavily promoting krill oil as the absolute best oil for humans to supplement with, far better than fish oil.2  He provides fourteen references to his advertisement—only two of which involve krill oil specifically.
The problem with advancing krill oil as the premier oil to supplement is that we have virtually no studies on animals or humans. Even the two papers mentioned by Mercola cite references that do not involve krill oil.

Search pubmed.gov., using krill oil as the search term. Do this for yourself and you will see that only eight papers appear, and many are absolutely useless from the perspective of human nutrition. For example, reference #4 is titled “Feed training of peacock bass.”
Only two human studies seem to have ever been published on krill oil, and both are published in a nutrition company’s journal that is indexed on Medline.

And remember when all fish Oil Supplements are not the same see post

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