Fish oil
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LeanEngineer
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I personally have not used it. I tend to just go with the fish oil at Costco for the price point.
sns8778
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NOW Foods has done a lot of testing and released the results over the last couple of years showing that many of the brands that exist solely or almost solely don't meet label claims.
I'm not saying that that one doesn't, but for me, I would stick to trusted brands that I see sold market wide.
I'm not saying that that one doesn't, but for me, I would stick to trusted brands that I see sold market wide.
jtgoshaff
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I have been taking this one off of Amazon for about a year now. My most recent bottle was a bit different then the last. The pills are more full/dense. I lowered my cholesterol a good bit and believe these helped in that as I wasn't taking fish oil prior.i bought them because of the high amounts of EPA and DHA. I rarely get fish burps with them also. It happens sometimes but not often.
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Smont
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I'm finding mostly 4 out of 5 star ratings but I'm finding stuff saying there company was built on fake reviews. But even some trusted sources say there gtg and some don't. Too Conflicting foe me to take a chance.
This is my favorite as well, I shoot a little higher for 2.5-3gm epa/dha. Do you know if the rancid fish oil is still a worry? I use to hear about that a lot but not of recent and for that reason I also stick with the big name brands for those
poison
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I wouldn't worry about that with LEF. They sell a lot, turnover is high, and they use accredited sources for the fish oil.
sns8778
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That is the case with a lot of Amazon brands - many of them established a lot of fake reviews before Amazon cracked down on it.
I don't know whether they are okay or not, but as a personal rule for me, if a brand exists solely or almost solely on Amazon I don't buy them bc there are so many issues with Amazon brands.
I look at brands like NOW Foods and how low their prices are on a lot of things and its a good likelihood that is someone can significantly undercut NOW, there may be an issue.
sns8778
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On the rancid fish oil part:
Legitimate brands would never intentionally use rancid fish oil bc they don't want to make people sick.
The problem is that a lot of brands that exist solely on Amazon or TikTok aren't really supplement brands, they are marketing companies or people good at marketing wanting to make a quick buck. Sometimes they knowingly cut corners, sometimes they try so hard to find the best price that they find a cm that will sell them something garbage quality to meet their price point, that may not meet label claims.
I see that all the time on the consulting side. Companies will want a price that's impossible, I'll tell them its impossible, and they'll point to their competitor on Amazon or TikTok that is doing it and then say they don't care if it meets claims or they'll want to do one batch right for Amazon testing and then plan to go back to not meeting claims. That's an immediate I won't work with the brands bc of that thing, and I've probably cost myself a lot of money over the years bc of that, but to me it shows the character of the brands.
That's where a lot of the rancid fish oil thing comes from.
If I remember correctly, there were a few bigger brands that got named in that a few years back, but from what I remember, most had done all the proper testing and it was in good shape when it left their warehouses, so if there were bottles that were rancid, it could have happened in transit or in warehouses. I remember back around that time period, Amazon issued a statement to brands that sent in softgels about temperatures in certain warehouses.
Fish Oil is just something that can go rancid very easily in general, and brands can do everything correctly but it can still go bad in transit, in warehouses, etc.
We've been asked to do one a lot and that's one reason we never have - bc there's just variables that are beyond a brands control.
Smont
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I often look to now foods for stuff like that as well, I actually think talking to you is what got me doing that