Benefits Of ShellFish

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I've heard Ray talk about the benefits of shellfish pertaining to selenium and low pufas...any other large benefits?

I currently do shrimp twice a week...besides shrimp should I be consuming other fish regularly as well? If so how often? I really like scallops. What are everyones thoughts?
 

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where does the shrimp come from? In one interview he says that farmed fish don't have the benefits of sea-caught fish.

Most shrimp (and plenty of other seafood) we get in UK supermarkets is farmed in Asia

EDIT: he does specifally mention in that interview the lack of selenium in farmed fish, not sure if that is the only issue or not.

In terms of protein it's an excellent source, you could east white fish/shellfish every day.
 
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It's wild caught fish...I could easily eat scallops everyday! So good. Just want to make sure there are is no downside from eating too much.
 

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Ewlevy1 said:
I've heard Ray talk about the benefits of shellfish pertaining to selenium and low pufas...any other large benefits?
I currently do shrimp twice a week...besides shrimp should I be consuming other fish regularly as well? If so how often?...

http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/iron-dangers.shtml
"A deficiency of copper causes our tissues to retain an excess of iron, so foods such as shrimp and oysters which contain abundant copper should be used regularly."

http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/fa ... ion3.shtml
"Eating low-fat seafood (sole, whitefish, turbot, scallops, oysters, lobster, shrimp, squid, etc.) once in a while can provide useful trace minerals, without much risk."
 

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RP has mentioned that shellfish like shrimp and lobster are higher in copper. One confusing part of nutritiondata.com showing iron and copper content of shrimp and lobster. It shows lobster is high in copper and low in iron, but shrimps are relatively high in iron and small amount of copper. Not sure, if they make any mistakes. He also mentioned these fish have copper as part of their blood rather than iron. I thought shrimp would have lot more copper

He also mentioned non-vertebrates ( shrimp, lobster, crab, squid etc) have some thyroid.
He seems to eat these regularly. These are still high in tryptophan, cysteine and methionine.
But, clearly better than beef, chicken and fish for its low iron and high copper content
If you grind the shell that can be used as calcium supplement.

I also remember him talking about too much seafood can have excess amount of iodine
and other toxins from ocean.

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fin ... cts/4172/2
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fin ... cts/4171/2
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fin ... cts/4170/2
 
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Ok so lets break this down:

Meat - 2 days a week
Shrimp - 2 days a week
Scallops - 3 days a week
LIver - once a week
Eggs - 2 a day
Gelatin - 6 bsp a day
Milk - 1 liter a day
Cheese - 2 oz a day

Thoughts? How many oz of scallops can I do at a time? Shrimp I've been doing 5oz at a time.
 

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RP has mentioned that shellfish like shrimp and lobster are higher in copper. One confusing part of nutritiondata.com showing iron and copper content of shrimp and lobster. It shows lobster is high in copper and low in iron, but shrimps are relatively high in iron and small amount of copper. Not sure, if they make any mistakes. He also mentioned these fish have copper as part of their blood rather than iron. I thought shrimp would have lot more copper

He also mentioned non-vertebrates ( shrimp, lobster, crab, squid etc) have some thyroid.
He seems to eat these regularly. These are still high in tryptophan, cysteine and methionine.
But, clearly better than beef, chicken and fish for its low iron and high copper content
If you grind the shell that can be used as calcium supplement.

I also remember him talking about too much seafood can have excess amount of iodine
and other toxins from ocean.

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fin ... cts/4172/2
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fin ... cts/4171/2
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fin ... cts/4170/2
@Mittir, could it be that the data of nutritiondata is of the typical lobster, shrimp, and crab found in markets where lobster is usually caught wild, whereas shrimp and crabs are farm-raised? That may account for the high copper content of lobster, and the low copper content of shrimp and crabs. I didn't know until recently that crabs can be farm-raised, but everyone knows much of the shrimp we get are farm-raised already.

As for shrimp, I like to chew the head and squeeze the juice out, but I wonder if I could just chew on the whole shrimp, shell and all, and eat all of it. That would give me plenty of calcium right there and then.
 

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