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fermented cod liver oil dose
« on: February 01, 2012, 12:17:44 pm »
I just got some blue ice cod liver oil from greenpasture.org

The bottle says 2ml is a dose but that seems a bit small for me. What do you guys recommend as a dose and how many times daily?
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Re: fermented cod liver oil dose
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2012, 03:19:39 pm »
I recommend whatever the bottle says. Why does it seem small?

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« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2012, 04:48:24 pm »
if you haven't had a good raw source of vit d or k2 before this, then you can triple the dose for a week or two, then slide back to 2ml or 4ml. The 2 ml is sufficient as a maintenance dose, but to quickly get your stores up to where they should be you can high dose until you feel like you're adequate. Then maybe after you've come back down to 2ml doses, do a once a week high dose. I don't ever measure my doses any more, I just take a swig of what seems like an adequate dosage. I'd rather get too much than too little.

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Re: fermented cod liver oil dose
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2012, 05:59:43 pm »
Does it say on the bottle how much Vit D is in that stuff, eg. per dose?
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Re: fermented cod liver oil dose
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2012, 09:26:11 pm »
"I don't ever measure my doses any more, I just take a swig of what seems like an adequate dosage. I'd rather get too much than too little."

A swig? I understand 2ml to be something like a few drops of oil..

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Re: fermented cod liver oil dose
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2012, 09:50:24 pm »
if you haven't had a good raw source of vit d or k2 before this, then you can triple the dose for a week or two, then slide back to 2ml or 4ml. The 2 ml is sufficient as a maintenance dose, but to quickly get your stores up to where they should be you can high dose until you feel like you're adequate. Then maybe after you've come back down to 2ml doses, do a once a week high dose. I don't ever measure my doses any more, I just take a swig of what seems like an adequate dosage. I'd rather get too much than too little.

Im not sure whether or not iv had a good source of those vitamins since i havnt thought about it at all. What would be some signs that iv been deficient in those. I might be deficient in vitamin d since i havent been in the sun too much lately due to winter time.
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« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2012, 10:32:09 pm »
The answer to whether or not you can use some initial high doses is almost assuredly yes. Unless you've been eating huge amounts of wild salmon, or mushrooms or imported grassfed milk or cream, you've probably not had much exposure to these vitamins. And for K2, unless you have a known source you're probably at least a little, if not terribly, deficient.

It's just that these vitamins are hard to get. That's why it's worth it to spend the pretty pennies on such a small amount of oil.

On a raw diet, you're not likely to notice any deficiency symptoms because a decent raw meat diet that is even slightly varied will provide at least a little of everything, and the food is so nutrient dense and efficient because it is intact.

Just pay attention to your use of the oil and see if you notice any difference after taking it for a while. For me, it lets me get away with eating more naughty foods like sugar and grains. Not that I want to really eat those particular foods anyway, but it is a gauge if I feel like testing these oils for efficacy.

I take the oils mainly for the K2, and D, in that order. But there are literally thousands of other beneficial compounds in this magical, stinky, little elixir. Everyone would benefit from it.

I'm considering moving over to the ratfish oil though, when they produce some reasonable assays of the biochemical components (nutrition). I think it is probably more sustainable than cod and skate, since it is either bycatch, or a very deep water quarry.

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Re: fermented cod liver oil dose
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2012, 01:10:09 am »
Good egg yolks contain pretty good amounts of those vitamins, D and K2.
And since when does fish liver oil have vitamin K? As far as I know it has mainly A and D.

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Re: fermented cod liver oil dose
« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2012, 07:56:23 am »
A swig? I understand 2ml to be something like a few drops of oil..
Green Pastures includes a syringe with a 2ml measure with their bottles of CLO and if you try it you'll see that 2ml is much more than a few drops.

Here's Sally Fallon and Mary Enig's recommended dose, fwiw:
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"Children over 12 years and adults: 1 teaspoon or 10 capsules, providing 9500 IU vitamin A and 1950 IU vitamin D."
http://www.westonaprice.org/cod-liver-oil/cod-liver-oil-basics
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