Posted by Hugh on September 1, 2015, at 11:02:21
In reply to Evening Primrose Oil seems increase joint pain!?, posted by kilo8 on July 19, 2015, at 20:41:45
Gamma linolenic acid (GLA) in evening primrose oil and in borage oil works well in combination with fish oil. Most people take way too much GLA. Barry Sears (author of The Zone diet books) recommends taking tiny amounts of GLA -- only a few milligrams a week. (A capsule of evening primrose oil typically contains 90 mg of GLA.) What I do is prick a capsule of evening primrose oil with a pin, squeeze out a drop or two, and then keep the capsule in a sandwich bag in the refrigerator to use again in a few days.
Before I discovered this, I had tried taking whole capsules of borage oil, which is even richer in GLA than evening primrose oil, and I noticed that it made me feel very irritable.
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