I am wanting to incorporate cod liver oil/butter oil and appreciate the recommendation. Can you speak to the controversy that went on over the cod liver oil and how that was resolved? I have read some on it, but need some clarity.
Hi Jennifer, Thanks for your question. This is such an important question because for any food that someone claims to be healthy, there is always push back from somewhere else claiming that the food is unhealthy. The only way to deal with this is to take no one's word for it but to examine the evidence.
The only CLO controversy that I'm familiar with is the question as to whether or not it is rancid. Is this what you're referring to or is there another controversy?
I have mostly heard the rancid claim in regards to fish oil that is not from cod livers but just the oil from fish. But this claim then also got transferred to the oil from the cod livers as well. The Weston Price Foundation decided to examine the top 5 brands of CLO by sending them to two independent laboratories for investigation. The labs tested the amounts of peroxides and aldehydes in cod liver oil. Those that were heat distilled contained only trace amounts. As for the fermented cod liver oil: "the fermented cod liver oil contained no detectable levels of aldehydes or CHPDs, even after fourteen days."
They then compared the trace amounts of aldehydes in the non fermented oils to the toxic products one would get from eating commercial fried chicken where the corn oil is heated for 90 minutes to cook multiple batches:
"At longer time intervals, aldehydes climb to levels considerably higher than those found in any type of cod liver oil. Indeed, lard heated for ninety minutes contains ten to one hundred times more total aldehydes than molecularly distilled cod liver oil, while corn oil heated to ninety minutes—typical when preparing large amounts of fried foods—can contain close to two hundred times the levels found in molecularly distilled cod liver oil. Since a fried chicken meal is likely to contain at least two or three tablespoons of lard or corn oil, the danger from a daily teaspoon of cod liver oil is considerably less."
You can read the whole report here in this article titled Report on Cod Liver Oil: Testing the Safety and Vitamin Content of our Number One Superfood
I have an article you may find of interest, migraine history.
How does salt restriction lead to heart disease and fear based reactionary thinking?
I explain why salt is so important for mammalian physiology. Milk is a salt drink.
Babies are the most hydrated, the elderly the most dehydrated.
Sugar displaces salt in cells. Hence diabetes is really a salt deficiency dis-ease.
The adrenals are required to take the reins when the body is low on salt/dehydrated/hyponatremic. The adrenals release all their adrenal cortical hormones because it’s a life threatening emergency. This brings on the freeze, fight, flight response.
This increases blood glucose, increased diabetes.
Turns off the sex hormones, not a time to have children, increased IVF.
This increases anxiety and can lead to panic attacks and depression.
This prioritises blood supply to the organs for fight and flight.
This prioritises programmed reactions as opposed to thoughtful response.
This makes stress intolerable, so compliance is sought.
The establishment’s model of blood and lung physiology fails under scrutiny. I’ll explain why.
We breathe air not oxygen.
Air is measured by its moisture or humidity Eg its at 45% humidity today
Oxygen is measured by its dryness Eg medical oxygen has 67parts per million or less of water contamination.
The lung alveoli requires air reaching it to be at 100% humidity, that is dew point.
Can you comprehend the mis-match?
Oxygen is manufactured by stripping air of moisture. Oxygen is a product of air NOT a constituent of air.
There is no wild/natural oxygen in air. Oxygen becomes nitrogen with the addition of carbon particles to become a non-flammable version of oxygen. I have a link to a demonstration of this on my stack, a home oxygen concentrator is used.
The lungs are responsible for re-hydrating the red blood cells as they pass through the alveoli capillaries with salt water. The red blood cells are salt water sponges.
The saline intravenous drip rehydrates red blood cells and aids the lungs.
The insult that causes respiratory dis-stress is dehydration. It’s seasonal because cold air holds the least moisture and indoor room air often dries out with heating.
The dry mucosa must re-establish itself and the production of mucus goes into overdrive. The mucosa requires salt and moisture and it will move both from any bodily reserves. This causes pain as the extraction process goes into motion.
Now you know why the old remedies are successful.
Salt water gargles, nasal irrigations/inhalations and chicken soup / bone broth soups.
Sanatoriums were built along coastlines to take advantage of sea spray because it was known to heal injured lungs.
It is time the COMMONS reclaimed the knowledge of hydration and healing.
Hydration equals salt plus water.
Healing begins with hydration.
Oxygen’s toxicity is directly related to its power to dehydrate. Reactive oxygen species ROS describes damage due to dehydration.
Oxygen on release from a container will extract moisture from its surroundings to become air, its natural state. Oxygen released inside the respiratory tract extracts moisture from the mucosa and the delicate alveoli causing dehydration. This can kill.
Oxygen is a prescribed drug. It is primarily prescribed for the terminally ill. Palliative care is not kind.
You need to comprehend the difference between air and oxygen. Read the material safety data sheets for oxygen and nitrogen. Both have unconsciousness and not breathing listed under inhalation.
I am wanting to incorporate cod liver oil/butter oil and appreciate the recommendation. Can you speak to the controversy that went on over the cod liver oil and how that was resolved? I have read some on it, but need some clarity.
Hi Jennifer, Thanks for your question. This is such an important question because for any food that someone claims to be healthy, there is always push back from somewhere else claiming that the food is unhealthy. The only way to deal with this is to take no one's word for it but to examine the evidence.
The only CLO controversy that I'm familiar with is the question as to whether or not it is rancid. Is this what you're referring to or is there another controversy?
I have mostly heard the rancid claim in regards to fish oil that is not from cod livers but just the oil from fish. But this claim then also got transferred to the oil from the cod livers as well. The Weston Price Foundation decided to examine the top 5 brands of CLO by sending them to two independent laboratories for investigation. The labs tested the amounts of peroxides and aldehydes in cod liver oil. Those that were heat distilled contained only trace amounts. As for the fermented cod liver oil: "the fermented cod liver oil contained no detectable levels of aldehydes or CHPDs, even after fourteen days."
They then compared the trace amounts of aldehydes in the non fermented oils to the toxic products one would get from eating commercial fried chicken where the corn oil is heated for 90 minutes to cook multiple batches:
"At longer time intervals, aldehydes climb to levels considerably higher than those found in any type of cod liver oil. Indeed, lard heated for ninety minutes contains ten to one hundred times more total aldehydes than molecularly distilled cod liver oil, while corn oil heated to ninety minutes—typical when preparing large amounts of fried foods—can contain close to two hundred times the levels found in molecularly distilled cod liver oil. Since a fried chicken meal is likely to contain at least two or three tablespoons of lard or corn oil, the danger from a daily teaspoon of cod liver oil is considerably less."
You can read the whole report here in this article titled Report on Cod Liver Oil: Testing the Safety and Vitamin Content of our Number One Superfood
https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/cod-liver-oil/report-cod-liver-oil/#gsc.tab=0
Hi Leslie
I have an article you may find of interest, migraine history.
How does salt restriction lead to heart disease and fear based reactionary thinking?
I explain why salt is so important for mammalian physiology. Milk is a salt drink.
Babies are the most hydrated, the elderly the most dehydrated.
Sugar displaces salt in cells. Hence diabetes is really a salt deficiency dis-ease.
The adrenals are required to take the reins when the body is low on salt/dehydrated/hyponatremic. The adrenals release all their adrenal cortical hormones because it’s a life threatening emergency. This brings on the freeze, fight, flight response.
This increases blood glucose, increased diabetes.
Turns off the sex hormones, not a time to have children, increased IVF.
This increases anxiety and can lead to panic attacks and depression.
This prioritises blood supply to the organs for fight and flight.
This prioritises programmed reactions as opposed to thoughtful response.
This makes stress intolerable, so compliance is sought.
What causes a cold or respiratory dis-ease?
The establishment’s model of blood and lung physiology fails under scrutiny. I’ll explain why.
We breathe air not oxygen.
Air is measured by its moisture or humidity Eg its at 45% humidity today
Oxygen is measured by its dryness Eg medical oxygen has 67parts per million or less of water contamination.
The lung alveoli requires air reaching it to be at 100% humidity, that is dew point.
Can you comprehend the mis-match?
Oxygen is manufactured by stripping air of moisture. Oxygen is a product of air NOT a constituent of air.
There is no wild/natural oxygen in air. Oxygen becomes nitrogen with the addition of carbon particles to become a non-flammable version of oxygen. I have a link to a demonstration of this on my stack, a home oxygen concentrator is used.
The lungs are responsible for re-hydrating the red blood cells as they pass through the alveoli capillaries with salt water. The red blood cells are salt water sponges.
The saline intravenous drip rehydrates red blood cells and aids the lungs.
The insult that causes respiratory dis-stress is dehydration. It’s seasonal because cold air holds the least moisture and indoor room air often dries out with heating.
The dry mucosa must re-establish itself and the production of mucus goes into overdrive. The mucosa requires salt and moisture and it will move both from any bodily reserves. This causes pain as the extraction process goes into motion.
Now you know why the old remedies are successful.
Salt water gargles, nasal irrigations/inhalations and chicken soup / bone broth soups.
Sanatoriums were built along coastlines to take advantage of sea spray because it was known to heal injured lungs.
It is time the COMMONS reclaimed the knowledge of hydration and healing.
Hydration equals salt plus water.
Healing begins with hydration.
Oxygen’s toxicity is directly related to its power to dehydrate. Reactive oxygen species ROS describes damage due to dehydration.
Oxygen on release from a container will extract moisture from its surroundings to become air, its natural state. Oxygen released inside the respiratory tract extracts moisture from the mucosa and the delicate alveoli causing dehydration. This can kill.
Oxygen is a prescribed drug. It is primarily prescribed for the terminally ill. Palliative care is not kind.
You need to comprehend the difference between air and oxygen. Read the material safety data sheets for oxygen and nitrogen. Both have unconsciousness and not breathing listed under inhalation.
Thanks so much, this is just the clarity I was looking for.