Before everybody thinks I'm just here to rant, troll and put noise here. No, I'm not. I do like Ray Peat, I do eat Ray inspired, I do like the thousand of post here such as from haidut and suikerbuik trying to explain the details of Ray Peat works.
If I agree, I just nod my head, and I don't feel really like posting something, but ... if I disagree, i feel more urge to post something, so therefore you may get the wrong impression that I'm only here to make noise. I think the +1 button should be reintroduced, so that people like me can express this nodding with the head in a digital way.
But enough of this girl talk, let me put forward my view here that may be controversial. I honestly believe that a good quality cod liver oil actually may be something very healthy to add to a diet, in fact I believe that it may be the second best way to get your natural source of vitamin A.
Personally, I don't mind so much supplementing, and I just use haidut's estroban, but for people that prefer the natural way, what are the practical ways of getting vitamin A in the diet ? I think most commonly people on a natural Ray Peat inspired diet get their vitamin A from egg yolks, liver and butter. I can't think of much other sources. As we try to limit PUFAs as much as possible most people here avoid cod liver oil. But let's look at the fact for a second:
* beef liver: 0.03 gram PUFA per 1000 IU vitamin A
* cod liver oil: 0.1 gram PUFA per 1000 IU vitamin A
* butter: 1.2 gram of PUFA per 1000 IU vitamin A
* egg yolks: 2.9 gram PUFA per 1000 IU vitamin A
This picture is quite clear if you ask me, beef liver wins in this contest, but cod liver oil is not doing that bad at all! If you would want to get 5000 IU of vitamin A all from cod liver oil, then you would still only get 0.5 gram of PUFA, true allmost all of this is omega 3 fatty acids, but for comparison, one oyster also contains 0.5 gram of omega 3. (Edit: all this cod liver oil data is from the one of green pasture).
So all in all, I think you cannot otherwise say than that cod liver oil is a good natural source of vitamin A and relatively low in PUFAs. I mean, don't eat cod liver oil as if it is butter of course, but from only 2.5 gram of cod liver oil, you get 5000 IU vitamin A, 1000 IU vitamin D and also quite some natural occuring quinones (from which part of it is vitamin K2 I guess). What could be wrong about that ?
If I agree, I just nod my head, and I don't feel really like posting something, but ... if I disagree, i feel more urge to post something, so therefore you may get the wrong impression that I'm only here to make noise. I think the +1 button should be reintroduced, so that people like me can express this nodding with the head in a digital way.
But enough of this girl talk, let me put forward my view here that may be controversial. I honestly believe that a good quality cod liver oil actually may be something very healthy to add to a diet, in fact I believe that it may be the second best way to get your natural source of vitamin A.
Personally, I don't mind so much supplementing, and I just use haidut's estroban, but for people that prefer the natural way, what are the practical ways of getting vitamin A in the diet ? I think most commonly people on a natural Ray Peat inspired diet get their vitamin A from egg yolks, liver and butter. I can't think of much other sources. As we try to limit PUFAs as much as possible most people here avoid cod liver oil. But let's look at the fact for a second:
* beef liver: 0.03 gram PUFA per 1000 IU vitamin A
* cod liver oil: 0.1 gram PUFA per 1000 IU vitamin A
* butter: 1.2 gram of PUFA per 1000 IU vitamin A
* egg yolks: 2.9 gram PUFA per 1000 IU vitamin A
This picture is quite clear if you ask me, beef liver wins in this contest, but cod liver oil is not doing that bad at all! If you would want to get 5000 IU of vitamin A all from cod liver oil, then you would still only get 0.5 gram of PUFA, true allmost all of this is omega 3 fatty acids, but for comparison, one oyster also contains 0.5 gram of omega 3. (Edit: all this cod liver oil data is from the one of green pasture).
So all in all, I think you cannot otherwise say than that cod liver oil is a good natural source of vitamin A and relatively low in PUFAs. I mean, don't eat cod liver oil as if it is butter of course, but from only 2.5 gram of cod liver oil, you get 5000 IU vitamin A, 1000 IU vitamin D and also quite some natural occuring quinones (from which part of it is vitamin K2 I guess). What could be wrong about that ?