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Episode 193: Fish Oil

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Prescription Grade Fish Oil for Certain Patients

This is a situation that's fortunately becoming a little bit less common because we have better drugs nowadays compared to warfarin. And so fish oil as you know is being brought up in this case in the past has been historically thought to have a bit of an effect to promote bleeding or to inhibit platelets which are the little cells in our blood that help us to perform blood clots. I think that larger and larger scale kind of data sets and research have shown that to not be nearly as much of a concern as it used to be if it is one at all. Of course, ruling that out entirely for the one specific patient in front of us is still very difficult to do even despite

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