Fish oil has become extremely popular. There’s even a prescription version available. Is it as helpful as its proponents claim, or is it just a fad? Guests: Joseph Maroon, MD, Vice Chairman and Professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He is also the team neurosurgeon for the Pittsburgh Steeler football team. He is co-author, with Jeffrey Bost, of Fish Oil: The Natural Anti-Inflammatory. Jennifer Dianto, Seafood Watch Program Manager at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
The Website is: http://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-recommendations/consumer-guides
Richard Deckelbaum, MD, the Robert R. Williams Professor of Nutrition and Director of the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University. Dr. Deckelbaum wrote an editorial on fish oil in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/84/1/1 Kathleen Wyne, MD, F.A.C.E., an endocrinologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX. She consults for Reliant Pharmaceuticals, the company that makes the prescription product Omacor.
