DHA levels in the blood are also affected by what you eat.   There are studies that low fat diets result in high DHA blood levels (link).   So it may not be the little pill that causes the increased blood levels, it may be the 99% other stuff people eat that has a bigger impact.   Of course, the original study makes no attempt to figure out why people's DHA levels are what they are, they just measured blood levels and incidence of prostate cancer.     Not to mention, because the two things happen doesn't necessarily mean one causes the other.

I took fish oil for a short while years ago til I read the same stuff.  I figure if I eat a tuna sandwich every once in a while, that's good enough.  Rarely, I'll have some salmon as a treat but otherwise I rarely eat fish.  Arguments for Mediterranean diet abound but who knows.

On hijack note I am sad now whenever I hear Genesis and/or Phil as they are pretty well done.  Phil had some issues with back and wrist and has called it quits.  Almost sadly, he himself even made some sad remark about how he couldn't believe people tolerated his music for so long. This guy is a musical genius as is Tony Banks & IMHO, to a lesser extent Mike Rutherford.  Nevertheless I am glad I have an album of music that is longer than most musicians could produce in 2 lifetimes much less 1.

P. S.  Also this......Life is terminal!  

Well I am always skeptical about the latest studies on these kind of things, because they keep contradicting each other. I have never actually taken any kind of vitamin or supplement in my life, due to a combination of cynicism & laziness. I prefer to just eat food. And of course some of the conventional wisdom now is that taking vitamins/supplements does not necessarily provide the same benefits as eating the foods they come from. I choose to believe those studies because they support my argument.

And I will have to agree with Phil Collins - I can't believe people tolerated his music for so long. Sorry.

I took fish oil pills for a while, but the burps were a little nasty.  I eat lots of salmon b/c salmon has lots of oil, oil is a form of fat, and fat is what makes food awesome.  I'd add butter if it would only stick !

As a scientist (physics) I have a super-duper hard time taking any health-related research seriously.  Step 1) Somebody decides to fund your research, b/c they like what you are going to discover. 2) Who cares WTF happens. 3) You publish, b/c you have to. 4) No matter what you actually say (or don't say) the media spins it as the most significant, life altering discovery since blood-letting and leeches.  Everybody wins!

Isn't there an internet study for pretty much everything, indicating anything will give you some kind of cancer?  You're only true way of preventing it is to do nothing, consume nothing, and go nowhere.

Besides, prostate cancer is like one of the nicer cancers you can get.

There is also a difference between a single study and a meta-analysis.  The study showing no benefit to Omega-3 supplementation was a meta-analysis of 20 studies.  The prostate cancer link wasn't a meta-analysis but it was a replicated finding of a previous study.

Of course, I suppose those who discount all studies don't think cigarettes are harmful either.

 

Except that the treatment can leave you impotent and incontinent so you get to wear a diaper the rest of your life and you can't have sex.  That's pretty nice wouldn't you say?

Thanks for the clarification that prostate cancer actually is not a nice thing.  You learn something new every day.