I have had personal training and fitness boot camp clients at the Genesis Performance Center who had bad experiences with their previous fish oil capsules saying that they got some smelly burps when they took fish oil and thus, they don’t want to take the amount I reccomend for their optimal health, muscle building, weight loss and fat loss results (which are the benefits of a good fish oil).

Firstly your fish oil is not good quality and/or has gone bad. Rancid (rotting in basic terms) oil is not healthy at all and is actually bad for you. A bad or overly fishy smell when you open the bottle is a good sign of this.

A good fish oil supplement will have some built in antioxidants (probably Vitamin E) to reduce the oxidation and damage to the oil. So don’t be a cheapo and get good fish oil. Or at least don’t get cheap stuff and then complain that it doesn’t work!

Second you can try to put the capsules in the freezer and eat them cold. This also seems to help alot (I’m not really sure why!) The oil will turn “cloudy” but its still good!

But all these problems go away once they start taking our medical grade fish oil.