Flax Seeds [TMI]

Are you eating them whole? Eating them as ground meal is the only way to absorb the nutrients from them. If you eat them whole, you'll pass them whole.

You can get flax seed oil

This is the exact reason I hate people to go on here with MAGICAL remedies to things b/c someone forces themselves beyond obvious discomfort beleiving they are getting accurate information, b/c desperate and second hand info.

OP, IF YOUR *kitten* IS BLEEDING DON'T EAT THAT THING!

Pointless eating them at all. Whole, they're useless and even ground they're pretty much pointless. The Omegas in plants are not very well absorbed in humans. Fish omegas are much more readily absorb-able.

If anything you are consuming is making you crap blood, stop consuming it. Don't cut it down, just stop taking it. This would be common sense.

Nobody should be eating them unless it's for the taste they enjoy, which is all good, carry on. Or to add some flavour.

If you're doing it for health benefits get some fish oil.

Flax seed contains ALA, the body cannot efficiently use this type of Omega 3.

Fish oil contains EPA and DHA. This is what your body really needs and can use easily.

With flax your body has to convert the ALA found within, to EPA, which takes time and is incomplete. You'd have to eat loads of flax to get the required amount. ALA cannot be converted to DHA.

Get some omega 3 :-)

Nobody should be eating them unless it's for the taste they enjoy, which is all good, carry on. Or to add some flavour.

If you're doing it for health benefits get some fish oil.

Flax seed contains ALA, the body cannot efficiently use this type of Omega 3.

Fish oil contains EPA and DHA. This is what your body really needs and can use easily.

With flax your body has to convert the ALA found within, to EPA, which takes time and is incomplete. You'd have to eat loads of flax to get the required amount. ALA cannot be converted to DHA.

Get some omega 3 :-)

What?

ALA is know as an essential fatty acid.

Eta: eating stuff that makes you bleed out the butt is maybe not a good idea. Maybe.

You haven't read what I said. The body converts ALA to EPA & DHA. The only reason ALA is seen as essential is because the body needs it to convert it to EPA & DHA. So there is no need to intake ALA if you're getting enough EPA & DHA from fish oil anyway. No metabolism is needed and your body gets what it needs.

Flax seed cointains ALA yes, but the body cannot convert it very well to EPA & DHA.

The reason it is seen as essential is that the body can't make it. If I remember correctly it also metabolized into membrane phospholipids outside of the EPA->DHA path, etc... So, I'm going to differ and say that the conversion to EPA & DHA isn't the only metabolic reason.

As to flax seed, I couldn't care - certainly do not recommend it personally.

ALA is usually absorbed in sufficient quantity in healthy people with normal gut bacteria - these little buggers produce ALA from various LA or CLA sources. Eat your yougurt.