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Great suggestion Autonomous, really nice find. I wish I could eat fish at home and all that 
Sadly I can't, but I hope you guys also take advantage of that, the oemga 3 content is insane!
Also, I know this is not a scientific article, but I am looking up "omega 3 and sebaceous glands" to see if I can find a link and I find this:
So you‚„ve heard all about the benefits of omega 3 fatty acids and the fish oils that are manufactured to aide in the prevention of heart disease as well as other diseases however, omega 3 oils for acne treatment is not talked about enough. Acne is a problem that affects the young and the old alike and the cause of that are hormones. It is a fact that hormone overproduction is a reason for creating excess sebum oil and it clogs the hair follicles that cover the human body and causes skin eruptions to break out.
The omega 3 oils for acne treatment have been successful in providing the good oils that are used in these sebaceous glands as they decrease in size causing less acne.
More Benefits to Omega 3 Oils for Acne Treatment
There are more benefits to using omega 3 oils for acne treatment and the proof reveals itself in our health and the prevention of heart disease and other autoimmune and inflammatory conditions. However, it is a sad fact that most people in the western world today are highly deficient in these omega 3 fatty acids and show an overabundance in omega 6 fatty acids that are although also essential, the ingestion of fatty 6 acids should be far less than the omega 3. These can be obtained through the diet and eating many avocados, nuts, seeds and other leafy greens but most often, due to the food available today and the lack of nutrients it provides, a supplement is required and the omega 3 oils for acne treatment are the perfect place to start.
It is vital to acne health that there are enough of the omega 3 essential fatty acids in order to control the chemical hormones that come from omega 3 fatty acids and this in return, controls the excess sebum so that it does not produce in the very hair follicles that cause these acne breakouts.
http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Omega-3-Oils...t&id=475146
I am going to increase the omega 3 even more but carefully, the last time I made a mistake to take 5 pills at once (I wanted to split 10 pills, 2x a day). But that lead to a real fast drop in blood pressure since it thinned the blood. It happened in 4 hours. Sure, that was bad news, but the good news is that the omega 3 you take in, instantly affects your omega 3 blood content. So that's good news to go with the bad.
So I will take 3 pills... 3x a day, and see how that goes for a while. I want to shut off the excess sebum entirely.
I keep feeling stagnant with excess oil production, I want the excess all gone, not just half way.
Another one. Again, not a credible source but I still want to list it down:
Lack of omega 3's in general:
AA weaken immune systemAInflammatory disorders
APoor skin
ASkin eruptions and other wounds that wonaaasaazt heal
ASebum production increases (this is what happens
when you have acne)
ASebaceous glands size increases
Eating essential oils are necessary to provide you the right oils that
are used in the sebaceous glands.
http://www.theseedsspace.com/Use_Essential.../content/131446
So essentially, a good source of omega 3 will reduce sebum production[/u], reduce the sebaceous glands size, and provides the right type of oils used by the sebaceous glads so it won't clog your skin.
I guess that's the most important reason why we take them.
Sounds like accutane like effects without shutting off the glands all together?
Dermatologic signs of fatty acid deficiency include a thin and discolored haircoat, scaly skin, sebaceous gland hypertrophy with hyperkeratosis of the sebaceous ducts and increased sebum viscosity, increased epidermal turnover rate, weak cutaneous capillaries, and decreased wound healing.
Yeah, it's about animals, but it's similar to us 😀
And you know, one other really important thing I notice. It's always on the weekends I tend to get a break out of any sort. And today it hit me... we always eat out on weekends, and the amount of omega 3 only covers how I eat on the weekdays... very little yet very light on the omega 6's... but on weekends, we go out and have texas sized meals full of well.. fat. So today after dinner we went to see a movie, and it was 2 hours afterwards and my brother said... hey your face is really oily. I thought what? I just blotted a few hours ago, it never comes back that fast. And oddly, even my body was oily, because right now I have bumps on my back, and I had alot of oil on my face. And 6 hours later I still feel full, perhaps it's true about the omega 6 excess and oil production. I will test it out and really up my omega 3's safely and spread out. With this theory, I should see even less oil being produced. Because instead of getting just 1:1 or a variance around that area... I will always get more omega 3 than 6 in my diet since this should technically be even more optimal. Plus the only side effects come when taken in excessive doses all at once. And since it's just a fat, it's no biggie.
Haha just as I finished typing this, on SNL on the t.v. they mentioned fish pills 
anybody get an intial break out when starting on fish oil???i was fine at first but about 4 days into my regime i had major breakout
i started on 6 pills a day of 1000mg fish oil,im now on 8
It may be unrelated. What is your washing regimen like? Also, tell me about your exfoliation, and moisturizing methods.
Remember, it takes a while for it to get introduced slowly into your system (as they say).
And for your pills, how are they spread out? I tend to try spreading them 3x a day, but I may just spread out 10-12 pills over a 16 hour period (3 pills, 4x a day), something like that. But just do it slowly, you should be fine.
Did you also see how much omega 6 you may be getting in your diet?
Also, are you allergic to fish? If you are then it may be so, but if not then there should be no concern.
i worked out my ratio to be 6-1,so how much fish oil capsules should i be taking??
also i started a new face wash around the time i had my breakout,so im blaming the face wash rather than the fish oil at the moment but i was just wondering if other people had an intial breakout when starting with the fish oil.
anyway the breakout seems to be getting better and improving...
i went out and got myself some green tea tablets 340mg and some green tea bags to make a drink,so hoping to bring this into my regime and maybe get a clear completion very soon
so my regime is fish oil 1000mg x 8 at morning,lunch,tea time,night
and 1 x green tea 340mg in the morning
and 2 cups of green tea at morning and tea time
wash twice a day with clean and clear oil free deep cleansing wash
zinc supplement tea time
diet is plenty of veg,salad,fish,fruit,some bread each day
so any advice anyone??
i usually have mild - moderate acne,i would say moderate at this moment>>
i worked out my ratio to be 6-1,so how much fish oil capsules should i be taking??also i started a new face wash around the time i had my breakout,so im blaming the face wash rather than the fish oil at the moment but i was just wondering if other people had an intial breakout when starting with the fish oil.
anyway the breakout seems to be getting better and improving...
i went out and got myself some green tea tablets 340mg and some green tea bags to make a drink,so hoping to bring this into my regime and maybe get a clear completion very soon
so my regime is fish oil 1000mg x 8 at morning,lunch,tea time,night
and 1 x green tea 340mg in the morning
and 2 cups of green tea at morning and tea time
wash twice a day with clean and clear oil free deep cleansing wash
zinc supplement tea time
diet is plenty of veg,salad,fish,fruit,some bread each day
so any advice anyone??
i usually have mild - moderate acne,i would say moderate at this moment>>
Guys like autonomous and bber have had success actually getting more omega 3 than 6 in there daily intake. This may actually be key as opposed to just getting a balance of omega 3 to 6. Reason being is that for the days you get more 6 than 3, you can still get a sign of problems. I am going to actually try going to higher doses (10 to 12) per day, to see how that works. It should work. Last night I took in 3 before I went to bed. Today morning I woke up matte (face and body), no oil whatsoever. It's probably coincidence, but I will keep taking more per day and see what happens, I really have good reason to believe this is the only thing left to do. You may want to try that.
With green tea, what brand do you have, could you possibly link me to the site?
I would take 3 a day, even if you are drinking it as well, since these two have no side effects (unless taken at really extreme amounts) you will definitely be fine. So in this case, it's best to overcompensate just a bit instead of doing a little less.
Try that out, hopefully it works, I will try it out as well (the fish oil part)
the green tea i use is 315 mg not 350 mg anyway here is the link
http://www.hollandandbarrett.com/pages/pro...=1&cpid=597
im from uk but im sure holland and barrat is owned by an american company anway
so what do you think about how much fish oil im taking??too much?too little?
ive also started to eat more omega 3 foods,fish mainly.
the green tea i use is 315 mg not 350 mg anyway here is the linkhttp://www.hollandandbarrett.com/pages/pro...=1&cpid=597
im from uk but im sure holland and barrat is owned by an american company anway
so what do you think about how much fish oil im taking??too much?too little?
ive also started to eat more omega 3 foods,fish mainly.
The green tea is fine, looks about right. Taking 3 daily should be just right (since you also drink tea).
With omega 3, I got good results with just 6 pills (since it's what I needed to get to 1:1 with the omega 3 in my diet), but not amazing type results. Because the days I got in more omega 6 I still had issues since I was just taking enough to balance (mostly in the weekends is where I had the issues). I do know that since everyone is taking more omega 3 than 6 in their overall intake, that may be more beneficial. I am going to take 12 pills a day for now (which gets me 3.6 grams) a day, plus the omega 3 from my diet (900 mg worth) but I don't count that since it's in another form all together. So 3 pills every 4 hours.
Start with 10, that seems good.
So if I'm also taking flax seed as a suplement, is that complete overkill?
Nah, with fats I doubt it's overkill. You may want to keep it, but I personally would just use fish oil since I just would want to keep upping my omega 3's without adding any type of omega 6 at all (in case it hinders my results).
I don't want to jinx myself but it's 7 hours in after I washed, and today from 9 in the morning I started my 12 pils/day regimen (instead of the usual 6).
So far I have no oil, none. Not one drop, the clean and clear blotting sheet didn't even blot, except for a little dew, but you can't see through any part of it, and I barely put on any moisturizer at that. I hope it's not a fluke and stays this way. I really hope so, it's too soon to say until it happens for a consecutive amount of days but we shall see.
Since I did remember how my blood pressure reacted within hours after taking an excess once, I figured the reaction to pills should almost be relatively instant (in general). I guess it's true? I usually get a good amount of oil produced within this time, and it's strange now I have nothing, not even on my back or chest or scalp.
I'll keep posting.
So this will be my new regimen:
8 a.m. : 3 fish oil, 1 green tea
12 : 3 fish oil, 1 green tea
4 p.m. : 2 fish oil, 1 green tea
7 p.m. : 2 fish oil, 1 green tea
10 p.m. : 2 fish oil, 1 green tea
total: 12 fish oil, 5 green tea daily
is it ok to take more omega 3 with fish oil supplements if my ratio is o-3 to o-6 is 1.34 : 1 ??? or is it better if i just keep it to a 1:1 without exceeding the o3s ?
Take more, it's just fat, so it will be fine. My only caution is don't take an obsessive amount all at once, that causes a quick drop in blood pressure. It happened when I took 5 at once. So taking something like 3 should be fine everytime you take it. Look at how I split it up above this post.
is it ok to take more omega 3 with fish oil supplements if my ratio is o-3 to o-6 is 1.34 : 1 ??? or is it better if i just keep it to a 1:1 without exceeding the o3s ?
What is your diet like? I'd assume you eat mainly just seafood and green leafy vegetables. This is beyond amazing if true and very much out of the ordinary to have such a ratio before supplementing. Hence I'm a little skeptical. Did you calculate this based on one day only? I've found my ratio can vary a lot day to day even when eating healthy.
So this will be my new regimen:8 a.m. : 3 fish oil, 1 green tea
12 : 3 fish oil, 1 green tea
4 p.m. : 2 fish oil, 1 green tea
7 p.m. : 2 fish oil, 1 green tea
10 p.m. : 2 fish oil, 1 green tea
total: 12 fish oil, 5 green tea daily
It's ok to take both the green tea extract and the fish oil capsules at the same time?
So this will be my new regimen:8 a.m. : 3 fish oil, 1 green tea
12 : 3 fish oil, 1 green tea
4 p.m. : 2 fish oil, 1 green tea
7 p.m. : 2 fish oil, 1 green tea
10 p.m. : 2 fish oil, 1 green tea
total: 12 fish oil, 5 green tea daily
It's ok to take both the green tea extract and the fish oil capsules at the same time?
Yup 🙂 It's actually perfect, considering it's a great antioxidant.
The first thing to lessen will be the green tea, as soon as I am confident my face being matte is just from the fish oil, then I'll drop the green tea to 3 a day instead.
It's been 12 hours, no oil yet. I'm like accutane type dry. I need more moisturization, that's for sure.
We went to borders today, and they had alternative medicine books, so I flipped to fish oil and read some more. It said roughly 3 grams of omega 3 a day is perfect. So that's great at least!
I keep reading about how taking more than 3 grams of omega 3 in a day can increase the risk of hemorrhagic stroke. So I think 3 grams a day is fine, I may do 9 pills then, but 10 is good for now. 12 is overkill, but it did work for sure. But just for the measure of being safe, I will keep it at 9 to 10.
I keep reading about how taking more than 3 grams of omega 3 in a day can increase the risk of hemorrhagic stroke. So I think 3 grams a day is fine, I may do 9 pills then, but 10 is good for now. 12 is overkill, but it did work for sure. But just for the measure of being safe, I will keep it at 9 to 10.
I think you are forgetting that just one pound of salmon will contain 15 gms of omega 3 fat alone and a pound of salmon isnt all that much to eat you could realistically eat that in a day, so 15 grams of omega 3 fat is definitly ok.
On Sunday I took 1.8 grams of O-3 (which is also 4000mg of fish oil) within a 12-hour period, and I don't know if it was a scary coincidence but I experienced several moments of heart palpitations overnight. Which is strange considering I stayed it the whole day, drank a lot of water...........but didn't get around to eating much as I wasn't that hungry. I was going to take at least 1 pill this morning but I honestly was paranoid as hell so decided to let my body rest for at least 24 hours.
BTW, I've been taking GNC-brand 1000mg fish oil caplets (w/ 300mg of O-3/each). Also, is it safe or suggested to store these pills inside a fridge??? The GNC page for these pills mentions I should do so, but the label on the bottle doesn't. I just wonder if all the cold and moisture of the inside of the fridge would damage/alter the pills.
And to think, I'm not even taking the minimum amount suggested by the "Boss Man" around here, 6 pills. I just hope that this was a coincidential scare.
I keep reading about how taking more than 3 grams of omega 3 in a day can increase the risk of hemorrhagic stroke. So I think 3 grams a day is fine, I may do 9 pills then, but 10 is good for now. 12 is overkill, but it did work for sure. But just for the measure of being safe, I will keep it at 9 to 10.I think you are forgetting that just one pound of salmon will contain 15 gms of omega 3 fat alone and a pound of salmon isnt all that much to eat you could realistically eat that in a day, so 15 grams of omega 3 fat is definitly ok.
Hm true, makes sense. Would there be any way to find studies showing this issue with how sites are saying that how taking more than 3 grams of omega 3 may put you at risk for hemorrhagic stroke is not true? I can't find anything, but I am sure what they mean is a lot more, like the 5 to 6 grams range right?
On Sunday I took 1.8 grams of O-3 (which is also 4000mg of fish oil) within a 12-hour period, and I don't know if it was a scary coincidence but I experienced several moments of heart palpitations overnight. Which is strange considering I stayed it the whole day, drank a lot of water...........but didn't get around to eating much as I wasn't that hungry. I was going to take at least 1 pill this morning but I honestly was paranoid as hell so decided to let my body rest for at least 24 hours.BTW, I've been taking GNC-brand 1000mg fish oil caplets (w/ 300mg of O-3/each). Also, is it safe or suggested to store these pills inside a fridge??? The GNC page for these pills mentions I should do so, but the label on the bottle doesn't. I just wonder if all the cold and moisture of the inside of the fridge would damage/alter the pills.
And to think, I'm not even taking the minimum amount suggested by the "Boss Man" around here, 6 pills. I just hope that this was a coincidential scare.
You took in 4 pills, so it's 1.2 grams. But that's strange, do you have any fish allergies? It should actually help with irregular heart beats
