Fish Oil Is Causing Heart Disease? | Educational Video | Biolayne

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[karynstouffer]

When the reports came out, screaming in the headlines, my husband got a little nervous. He asked me to take a gander. We both have risk factors, conditions, that heighten our risks for cardiovascular problems.
I got to reading...
I felt extremely comfortable reassuring him that we were safe continuing our fish oil therapy.

[HectorMartinez-gykp]

I wasn't a believer when my doctor recommended it to lower my tryglicries, but about 5 blood tests later, my HDL went up, and tryglicries went really down. No study is going to convince me different.

[SKINNY_BRUH]

I'm watching this while gulping down 2 fish oil capsules

[gramps]

Yes! I started taking 1000 mg of Fish Oil and my AFIB came back. I previously had AFIB and had an Ablation which stopped my AFIB. I finally figured it was the Fish Oil. If you take 1000 mg or more you are at risk of AFIB. Thankfully after I stopped the Fish Oil my AFIB cleared up. I didn't take Fish OIl for my heart, I took it to try and relieve soreness and stiffness in my neck ligaments and tendons.

[jessepack]

Thank you for this. I’ll add this to the many many reasons I can safely ignore the media about health messaging.

[mfkleven]

The other thing that seems to increase risk of a fib while decreasing risk of everything else is lots of endurance exercise. So this phenomenon is not without precedent, and the parallel is fascinating.

[kevinstahl]

Thanks for the screenshots of the paper discussed as well as the further references to explore. It’s great to have a weekly source of con-ed and to practice reading/evaluating research

[mydg]

I am not a cardiologist, but my understanding is that atrial fibrillation is an electrical disease, whereas myocardial infarction is a vascular disease. It's not necessarily a progression from one to another, they're separate causes.

[PangetKano]

When this came out I looked into it; this is not the first study that shows cardiovascular harm from fish oil, including a meta analysis (Gencer. 2021.) Fish oil is expensive, so I’ve discontinued it.

[ashdgee]

Will stick to my sardines and wild caught salmon. Normally have 2-3 servings a week of fish

[seamussullivan]

Had to cover this with many patients and clients....had to calm many of them down.

[thomk]

Physionic explains it better and in more detail. Basically above a certain dose of 1g, afib increases possibly due to changes in the sodium potassium pump in the heart.

[heyselice]

As soon as I was told about this I was hoping you'd release a video talking about it. Great stuff as always!

[Romero]

Thank you so much Dr Norton for shedding some light on this. I just recently heard about this study and was a bit nervous. I was hoping Sr Norton would post a video on this.
Dr Norton is the man !

[ericbertrand]

DUDE - CORRELATION!! I'm a statistics-based engineer.

'Baseline' just means 'haven't had a heart issue yet'. Common sense would say that people who get a blood test showing elevated levels of LDL are statistically more likely to take fish oil, as a natural way of improving this value. This statement, if accepted, means that the baseline fish oil population generally has higher LDL (or non-HDL cholesterol) than the population who doesn't feel the need to supplement with fish oil. This would be difficult to tease out from the data, but would explain the 1.13 hazard ratio from baseline vs the lower ratio in other cohorts, due to a slight protective effect at all ranges.

[williso]

I'm not surprised, since I found out that companies like "Seven Seas cod liver fish oil max strength" has vegetable and seed oils now included in its ingredients. I questioned their customer service line about it, they said they would cal me back. No response

[dyderich]

As someone who takes fish oil, thanks for breaking it down. I'm going to keep taking it.

[billionsmustseed]

layne ive been watching you for years, please bro treat the room you record in i bet your views will increase

[BrandonSchmit]

Take your fish oil if you do it…. This is pretty good at showing what relative risk really means. You look at the odds/hazard ratio and the percent deviation up or down from 1.00 is either an increase or decrease in relative risk from 1.00. The original risk is completely separate. Meaning you might have a 5% risk of a stroke in the next ten years. A significant odds ratio of 1.38 means that you have an increased risk of stroke by doing “x behavior” of .38 or 38%. It’s not additive, meaning your risk of stroke is 5% plus 38% = 43% risk of stroke in the next ten years. It means 38% of 5% added onto the 5%. So the new risk is 5% + 1.9% (38% of 5) = 6.9% risk. So the news media often reports “OMG!!! If you smoke, you increase your risk of lung cancer by 50%!!!!” But it’s built into the original risk. So if that risk was 10% without smoking, your risk of lung cancer when smoking goes up to 15%. I'm making up the smoking statistics but just wanted to give an example.

[tonycompitello]

Thank you for your straight down the middle approach. it's good to know you have a voice to trust. I would like to know what your thoughts on stains are. Information seems to be all over the place. Keep up the good work.