Greetings and more greetings from New Zealand. I'm Eric Bakker The Naturopath. I appreciate you
tuning into this video. Today, we're going to talk about Alaskan Pollock. It's a particular type of a
Cod species that live far up North close to the Arctic Circle, freezing cold, deep waters. Not
unlike the Hoki fish, Macruronus novaezelandiae or the long Hoki fish that live in New Zealand also
on a similar latitude but down South as opposed to up North. See, these types of fish like the
Atlantic Cod and the new Alaskan Pollock and the New Zealand Hoki, they all live in a similar kind
of water. Very clean, very deep and very cold. These fish tend to be different entirely from the
tropical species like the anchovies and sardines that are heavily fished today. The reason why the
Pollock is so superior is because it's probably the world's largest, most sustainable fishery.
If you go to the Marine Stewardship Council website, I think it's MSC.org.
You can actually look it up, how sustainable the Pollock fishery really is. If you're purchasing
currently an omega-3 fish oil, have a look on the pack to you see if it contains anchovy,
especially sardines and anchovy blends with mackerel and herring and things like that.
The anchovy fishing industry is the most heavily exploited fishery on the planet.
Even Amazon is selling tons and tons of anchovy fish oil supplements. When I was a kid,
we knew that we could get Omega-3 from anchovies and sardines, but they didn't
really do that. They got Omega-3 primarily from Cod because they knew that the deeper sea species
conferred the most benefits. Now it's to heck with the benefits, let's just catch the fish closest to
the surface in the largest amount to exploit this as much as we can for as long as we can.
So that's the difference. Small fish tend to be entirely different from larger fish that live in
deep, colder waters. I've had many discussions with experts particularly in fatty acids,
who totally agree that the deeper the fish and the colder the water, the more benefits is conferred
to you as a human as opposed to fish that live in the shallower strata. So the Pollock comes from
one of the cleanest places in the world too, in terms of pollution, particularly that depth where
these fish are caught in. So once extracted, I'll just read out from my notes. The fish goes through
a very low temperature, low oxidation distillation process where all the heavy metals, dioxins, PCBs,
and basically crap is removed from the oil. The oil is then filtered again to separate
the EPA and DHA and then recombined to create perfect ratios that we find in the Pollock oil.
The other thing I like about the Pollock oil, particularly the product that we've got here,
the Omega-3 Plus. Can you see it? Yeah, there it is there.
What it also contains is extra vitamin D3 has been added to this product. So each capsule contains...
Actually no, it's per two capsules, 50 micrograms which is not a bad dose of vitamin D3.
Astaxanthin is an antioxidant that we've put in there too, which is a very powerful antioxidant.
So I think we've got a really nice product on our hands here, particularly the deep sea species
coming from a sustainable fishery, a clean product with added benefits of the vitamin D3
Astaxanthin that actually make up this product. So those are the reasons why I like Pollock oil.
So I hope you got something out of the video, thanks for tuning.