Excreted pharmaceutical drugs, such as Prozac, can end up polluting our waterways, and may bioaccumulate in fish flesh.
A Fine Kettle of Fluoxetine
Doctor's Note
The earlier video I refer to in this one is Prozac Residues in Fish. Researchers have also found evidence of Prozac in poultry; see Prozac in Poultry Is Better Than Penicillin. Despite the contaminants, tap water is still likely better; see Bottled Water vs. Tap. A better way to avoid unwanted drugs may be to cut back on meat (see Drug Residues in Meat) and dairy (see The Acne-Promoting Effects of Milk), and transition to a more plant-based diet (see Say No to Drugs by Saying Yes to More Plants)—which, for reasons other than the ALA mentioned in the video, may also improve mood (see Improving Mood Through Diet). And, I didn’t mean to suggest caffeine is necessarily deleterious to health; check out What About the Caffeine?
For more context, check out my associated blog posts: Mercury Testing Recommended Before Pregnancy; Stool Size and Breast Cancer Risk; and How To Reduce Dietary Antibiotic Intake.
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The earlier video I refer to in this one is Prozac Residues in Fish. Researchers have also found evidence of Prozac levels in poultry products. Despite the contaminants, tap water is still likely better than bottled. A better way to avoid unwanted drugs may be to cut back on meat and dairy and transition to a more plant-based diet, which, for reasons other than the ALA mentioned in the video, may also improve mood. And I didn’t mean to suggest caffeine is necessarily deleterious to health—check out What About the Caffeine? Feel free to also browse through the other 1,000+ topics covered here at NutritionFacts.org
The first link is broken: http://nutritionfacts.org/video/a-fine-kettle-of-fluoxetine
It should be
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/pdf/quality/nyc_dep_2009_ppcp_report.pdf
Please feel free to delete my post after the link is corrected.
Thank you so much Tan–corrected!
Even though we cut off their (Salmon) way back home by building damn’s at least they won’t be depressed about it. Comon’, you knew that was coming!
Again more fodder to feed my patients about the benefits of plants and the benefits of letting the fish live their “natural” undepressed lives;-}
Now fluoride is dumped into our drinking water and fluoride slightly(?) reduces thyroid function – dito for fluoride toothpaste. People I know claim that having gone from fluoride free toothpaste to fluoride ones resulted in less energy and napping until their thyroid (T4) meds were increased. What science is there behind this?
Here is Dr. Greger’s position on fluoride
“The proposed EPA
changes to water fluoridation have sparked a resurgence of many of the
old anti-fluoridation arguments, which as far as I can tell were
successfully debunked over
50 years ago. According to the CDC, fluoridation of drinking water
joins vaccination (another unjustly vilified practice) as one of the greatest public health achievements in the last last century.”
What a great food fish is – you get your mercury, lead, dioxin, nuclear waste and now prescription drugs! Everything your body needs……. THIS IS GROTESK! Luckily the postman delivered my DEVA DHA today.
Great information. Once again a wise nutritionalist would seem to place his emphasis on plant based sources of Omega 3’s or their precursors instead of animal/fish derivatives.
Just curious if many of these pollutant drugs are eliminated in the purification production of fish oil capsules, from certain manufacturers.
Thank you.
Randy:
I believe that these videos from Dr. Greger answer your questions about the effectiveness of purifying fish oil.
http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-distilled-fish-oil-toxin-free/
http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fish-oil-in-troubled-waters/
Just wanted to correct you on the NYS Standard for caffeine (0:50) – 50,000 ng/L is equal to 50 micrograms per litre. So, 0.05 mg/L – well below physiological response. I still wouldn’t want micrograms/L of some of the other compounds though.
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i like pie