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Fish oil use for medicinal as well as dietary purposes dates back at least to Viking times; but the 1922 scientific study of fish oil by Jack Drummond & Sylvester Zilva is the first paper on it on Pubmed, as a source of vitamin A.
But it took till the 1930s for it’s (ie codliver oil) wide medicinal benefits to be recognized.
Since then fish oil has proven to be the most pluripotential ‘micro’nutrient – at a dose as little as perhaps 100mg/day- in prevention and treatment (via either it’s omega3 EPA+DHA content, or its vitamins A and D content) of all common major diseases from learning , behaviour and memory disorders from birth to dotage, to infections, inflammation, arthritis, vision, pregnancy, growth and osteoporosis, mood, parkinson’s, hypertensive, vascular, thrombotic, lipid, cancer and diabetic disorders.
The recognition of citrus juice- vitamin C – as a medicinal dates back apparently only 250 years to Dr James Lind’s recognition of it’s reversal of lethal scurvy. But it was first identified and isolated only about 80 years ago . Since then it has proven to be as pluripotential a preventative as fish oil and now vitamin D3, and balanced sex hormone replacement.
In 1971 Borgman & Haselden described the effects of cod liver oil on dissolution of gallstones.
In 1974 Krumdieck & Butterworth’s landmark paper on cholesterol-lecithin interactions: factors of potential importance in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. summarized the evidence for combining supplements of vitamin C and soy lecethin (ie polyunsaturated fatty acid at position 2) in the prevention of atherosclerosis- since once this disease is present, it can take months to reverse.
in 1976 Navarro & Guevara described the importance of vitamin C in prevention of gallstones.
and by 1989 Wechsler ea described how omega-3-fatty acids – fish oil- just 1.5gm a day decreases biliary cholesterol and lithogenicity.
from 1973 Cameron Pauling & Campbell published their landmark work on vitamin C to tolerance (not antiscurvy doses or below many grams a day) in the prevention and treatment of many human cancers.
by 1997 Mizuguchi ea described prevention by fish oil of cholesterol gallstone formation in hamsters.
and in 1999 Takenaga ea described how Lecithinized ascorbic acid (PC-AS) effectively inhibits murine pulmonary metastasis.
Lecitithin is derived from food – meat, liver, legumes, cereals, fish and eggs – but not from fish oil. It – phosphatidylcholine- is a principal component of fat metabolism, cell membranes, brain, semen, and against gallstones, atherosclerosis (and thus heart – vascular-hypertensive -brain-), breast, cirrhosis and other liver diseases.
The crucial DHA and EPA omega3 fatty acids are, practically, derived exclusively from marine algae and thence krill and fish oil .
Hence the paramount importance (in preventing all common diseases) of promoting fish oil (by the teaspoon or capsule) together with lecithbioinized Vitamin C to tolerance eg vitamin C 50% enhanced with perhaps 15% calcium carbonate, 5% mag oxide, 10% bioflavinoid and 20% lecithin. Up to a heaped tsp 2 – 3 times a day of such an Enhanced Vitamin C mix – ie to bowel tolerance- will provide 5 – 7.5g vitamin C, 500-750mg calcium, 300 -450mg magnesium, 1-1.5g bioflavinoid and 2- 3g lecithin, with little diarrhoea..
Obviously to this should be added a blend of all the other few-score safe proven potential preventative supplements to combat all the other chronic diseases of premature aging including even multiple sclerosis (especially highdose vitamin D3).
So while oil and water dont mix in a glass, , ie vitamin C and bioflavinoids are not soluble in oil, combining them by taking them together with lecithin and fish oil a few times a day makes huge sense.
