Does anyone know anything about Shark Oil?!


Question: Does anyone know anything about Shark Oil?
Just wondering if anyone knows anything about shark oil what it is good/used for and where can it be purchased. It has been recommended to my mother by a friend as she is to undergo some chemo and was wondering if it was worth a purchase.

Answers:

No, it's not worth buying.

Shark oil, shark cartilage pills, shark fin pills as treatments for cancer - all quackery. An out and out scam, based on the fiction that sharks don't get cancer and that therefore products from sharks can prevent/cure cancer tumours in humans.

Gary Ostrander and colleagues from Johns Hopkins University have detailed more than 40 published examples of tumours in sharks, some dating back to the 1800s.

Despite the fact that that so far a total of 8 uncontrolled trials and 5 controlled trials have produced no evidence that shark cartilage is effective against cancer (the most recent study, by the American Cancer Institute, found it to be ineffective for lung cancer patients) this pseudoscience is still being promoted by people unscrupulous enough to seek to make money out of desperate and vulnerable people.

The consequences aren't just potentially tragic for cancer patients, who will surely die of untreated cancer if they rely on this discredited remedy, but has serious implications for the shark population too.

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/c…

http://www.nautilusproductions.com/sandt…

My best wishes to your mother for her treatment

7 year breast cancer survivor



It's not going to treat cancer, that's for certain.

Shark Oil = Snake Oil



it's really good for sauteing potatoes. A slight fishy flavour but better than goose fat IMHO



does it come from sharks?

Other than that I dont know




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