Universal Animal Omega

[Sgonzalez76]

Hi!...Please...Can someone tell me if Animal Omega is good for women and why? I'm almost done with Tonalin CLA and I would like to try it. I think the CLA is good but if I can have the benefits of other natural ingredients I would use them.

[FlyingV]

Animal Omega would be good for women or men as it supplies 2 kinds of necessary nutrients, omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids. It is a (fairly expensive) 3-6-9 EFA formula that includes some other non essential nutrients to like omega 9 fatty acids as well as lecithin and carnitine in small, trivial amounts. Like all 3-6-9 formulas, it would be best-suited for a person on a very lowfat diet, because most dietary fats (vegetable oils, meat and dairy fats) already supply plenty of omega 6, so not many people actually need more of those unless, again, your overall intake of fat is very very low.

The only nutrients in the AO that most people actually need more of are the omega-3 EFAs from fish or flax. The other ingredients just add to the cost and capsule requirement. So if you aren't on a very low fat diet, you'd probably be better ff with a straight omega-3 supplement, and among those, I really like the NOW Ultra Omega. It's one of the newer >70% concentration fish oils, so you only need 2 a day to get a nice 1.5 g of EPA/DHA. Plus it's enteric coated so it wont repeat on your with burping up and all that.

http://www.bodybuilding.com/store/now/ultra3.html

I havent physically seen the Animal Omega label in person, but from the BB.com website it doesnt look like the label tells you the quantity of the EPA or DHA or CLA in the mixture, so points off for that, too, since it makes a meaningful comparison to other products impossible.

The Tonalin CLA isn't really an EFA supplement, though, so it can't take the place of the Animal Omega and vice versa. If you had to chose only one product between the two of them, I'd get the fish oil, or some other omega 3 product, since omega-3s are very important, essential nutrients whereas the CLA is not. You could certainly use both, if you wanted, also.

[Sgonzalez76]

Thank you so much!!!...You are giving me all the information I need, I'm not in a very low fat diet but I'll get the Omega 3.


Thanks again.

[Chef K-Lo]

Originally Posted by FlyingV

Animal Omega would be good for women or men as it supplies 2 kinds of necessary nutrients, omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids. It is a (fairly expensive) 3-6-9 EFA formula that includes some other non essential nutrients to like omega 9 fatty acids as well as lecithin and carnitine in small, trivial amounts. Like all 3-6-9 formulas, it would be best-suited for a person on a very lowfat diet, because most dietary fats (vegetable oils, meat and dairy fats) already supply plenty of omega 6, so not many people actually need more of those unless, again, your overall intake of fat is very very low.

The only nutrients in the AO that most people actually need more of are the omega-3 EFAs from fish or flax. The other ingredients just add to the cost and capsule requirement. So if you aren't on a very low fat diet, you'd probably be better ff with a straight omega-3 supplement, and among those, I really like the NOW Ultra Omega. It's one of the newer >70% concentration fish oils, so you only need 2 a day to get a nice 1.5 g of EPA/DHA. Plus it's enteric coated so it wont repeat on your with burping up and all that.

http://www.bodybuilding.com/store/now/ultra3.html

I havent physically seen the Animal Omega label in person, but from the BB.com website it doesnt look like the label tells you the quantity of the EPA or DHA or CLA in the mixture, so points off for that, too, since it makes a meaningful comparison to other products impossible.

The Tonalin CLA isn't really an EFA supplement, though, so it can't take the place of the Animal Omega and vice versa. If you had to chose only one product between the two of them, I'd get the fish oil, or some other omega 3 product, since omega-3s are very important, essential nutrients whereas the CLA is not. You could certainly use both, if you wanted, also.

The amounts of EPA,DHA, and CLA are indicated on the container, and are as follows:

ALA-450mg
DHA-350mg
EPA-450mg
CLA-800mg
GLA-300mg
LA-850mg

I have just started taking this, so it's too soon to report any major results, but I like it so far. No fishy burps either.