I’ve heard very good things about high-EPA/decent DHA fish oil thats molecularly-distilled.
This seems to be a frequent recommendation (particularly if you don’t eat seafood or fish) in many health circles and I’d like to get everyone’s thoughts on best products, practices, etc.
Blanket advice for supplements: health benefit is minimal. Cost is high.
Check with your doctor or dietician or some sort of expert with more credibility than random schmucks on the internet.
And if you must, just grab the cheapest supermarket multivitamins and take only one. It probably won’t do much, but at least you’ll only waste a few pennies per day.
Depends on what you want to take them for.
Most fish oil is completely ineffective:
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/fish-oil
https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/the-false-promise-of-fish-oil-supplements
Some medications can cause a CoQ10 deficiency, so if you’re on one of those medications, you might need a supplement, but absent that, there’s no reason to take fish oil.
If you don’t have heart disease, eating two servings of fatty fish weekly or following a vegetarian diet rich in healthy oils, nuts, and seeds is a far smarter strategy than buying fish oil supplements.
I don’t do either of those things. They are essential. What do?
The easy part is adjusting your diet, far cheaper than fish oil.
I hate seafood and I won’t start eating it. What do?
Eat nuts and seeds
- Dont those only contain ALA?
- Is ALA sufficient over all three or more particularly those 2?
- Does fish contain ALA?
From the 2nd link above:
“Vegetarians (who don’t eat fish) and vegans (who avoid all animal-based foods) can meet their omega-3 requirements by eating plenty of ALA-rich foods, such as flaxseed, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, and soybean or canola oil. People who follow these plant-focused diets have lower rates of heart disease than omnivores, who include animal-sourced foods in their diets.”
Is it a fact that ALA is interchangeable with EPA/DHA, basically everything I’ve read on the matter talked more about those two than ALA
EPA and DHA are in seafood, so if you won’t eat fish, that limits you to ALA.
