Cod Liver Oil

[Saxlicker]

Not really a recipe unless you know different.
At the grand old age of 'something'...
I decided my joints may benefit from cod liver oil supplements because I'm not one for oily fish in my diet.
I used to take the capsules as a fad some 18 years ago but I had 2 split in quick succession in one week and I really really did not deal with the way they repeated on me when that happened. It was like the end of the world for the rest of each of those days.
I'm finally almost ready to give them a go again. Bought on by constant clicks and clunks of just about every joint I can think of.
I searched the internet for ways to disguise the flavour and found that most of the replies are by over obsessed parents trying to spoon the stuff down toddlers!!

Do you have any tried and proven techniques beyond the flavoured ones? or am I being Namby Pamby?
Please be gentle how you answer that last part I may cry.

[Andrew Sanders]

Just man-up and get them down you! I swear by them.They were effective with my footballer's knees within a couple of weeks.
You oil your saxes you must oil your legs.
Andy

[Saxlicker]

Just man-up and get them down you!
Andy

Thanks, I knew I could rely on you lot!

PS I have really soft feet and can't walk barefooted outside and I try not to break my nails

[TomMapfumo]

This may be worth a try - no taste problems here!

http://www.paradoxoil.com/index.html

Also contains olive oil and lemon oil in addition to fish oil.

[Saxlicker]

Sounds good.

[Andrew Sanders]

My Old Mum used to give us a spoonful of "Virol" to take the taste of the fish oil away, but that was oil on a spoon none of this mamby-pamby capsule nonsense. Virol tasted like the malt extract you make homebrew with.
Olive oil and lemon oil.... I ask you!

[Fraser Jarvis]

We recently looked at this and found out the following: Much of the branded stuff from drug stores/supermarkets is very very low in actual cod liver oil and to get any real benefit you would need to take an excessive amount, also some have been shown to contain low level traces of Mercury!

Your best option would be to get the slightly larger fish oil capsules from Holland and Barret.

[O.C.V.]

Our dogs get a codliver oil capsule every day and they have lovely shiny coats. It might do the same for you !
O.C.V.

[kevgermany]

As a kid we had a teaspoonful each every morning. No mamby pamby and nothing to take the taste away. Quite liked it after a while....

We now do the Salmon oil/fish oil and a capsule before breakfast doesn't repeat.

[MandyH]

personally I'm very sceptical as to the benefits of such supplements...

that said, I swear by vitamin C

Could you try something highly flavoured to swallow it down? Bacon crisps, say, they could repeat on you all day instead or maybe swig it down with a glass of orange juice?

I have no idea TBH, as someone whose legs have always ached, (I was born with CDH and my hips and knees have ached ever since) I've never thought that there might be a solution...

[kevgermany]

The oil capsules have helped a lot with problems with the base of my thumbs. And also help my moods....

[Fraser Jarvis]

[QUOTE=MandyH;64332]

that said, I swear by vitamin C

Whats that for, your eyes? have to try that, maybe make me read the dots a bit better then init..

[MandyH]

[QUOTE=Fraser Jarvis;64336]

Whats that for, your eyes? have to try that, maybe make me read the dots a bit better then init..

It was recommended to me by a lovely old Dutch lady we knew in the Netherlands some 12 years ago. In the intervening years I have barely ever had a cold, and the only time I have been ill were 2 bouts of true flu. Whether I would have been equally healthy I have no idea.

She swore by it and she was still raising funds for a children's charity in Romania and travelling to visit them at the age of 87, so it was doing something for her too

[Rogerb]

After about 40 years of varying joint pains, diagnosed as osteoarthritis, I suggested, on reading my routine blood test results, that it might actually be gout! I now take pills to reduce my uric acid level, and avoid oily fish which is high in 'purines', but had taken Eskimo Brainsharp (fish-oil plus a few other supposedly beneficial odds and ends...no purines) for a few years to boost Omega-3. etc.
I experienced no benefit to my joints from taking fish oils(nor glucosamine), but controlling my UA levels certainly seems to have helped ..... fewer sharp pains in the knees and toes.
I miss my sardines and mackerel, but it's a small price to pay for the reduced discomfort.
After 5 ops on my left knee, it's never going to be brilliant, especially going down stairs and hills, but I am trying to avoid its getting bad enough to need a 'replacement', as my siblings' experience of these has not been very satisfactory.

I do recommend Brainsharp ... and to take it in liquid form ...5ml/day should suffice for most people .....it does not taste bad (I HATE the taste of cod-liver oil, even the 'flavoured' stuff) and there are no after-effects, PLUS it is hugely more economical than capsules. The makers of Brainsharp say that fish-oils that taste bad and 'repeat on you' are probably rancid, and certainly not as pure as theirs!!
(I have just run-out and need to order more!)

It must help me with my pub-quizzes, I guess

[Fraser Jarvis]

In the intervening years I have barely ever had a cold

,I thought it was Garlic capsules that were supposedly good against getting colds and flu?