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Eat Your Fish Oil and Digest it, Too (Unoxidized!) | DHA:EPA Ratio of 1:1 Minimizes Oxidation, Maximizes Uptake | Plus: Fishes that Come Close are Sardines, Rainbow Trout, ...

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The often-heard "the more DHA, the better"-rule is - like so much you'll read about fish oil online - not the evidence-based truth it seems to be. Some extra EPA may keep the oil from getting oxidized before you even absorb it. No, I am not a fish oil fanboy, that's for sure. But how can you be if your chances to get already oxidized fish oil are 100% if you buy any of the US TOP-sellers (and assume that it's not different in Europe). Speaking of which: There's new research allowing us to add two new and potentially important criteria to the inofficial SuppVersity-"How to buy and use your fish oil" guide. The corresponding research comes from an international team of researchers and was first published in 2017. It is thus not exactly revolutionarily new but in view of the fact that I haven't seen the results being addressed anywhere before still SuppVersity  newsworthy ( Dasilva 2017 ). You can learn more about omega-3 & co. at th...
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3/3 TOP-Selling US Fish Oils Exceed Maximal Peroxide and Total Oxidation Levels - Levels Roughly 4000% Higher Than in Medical Grade N3 Supplements, Harvard Study Shows

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The US' favorite fish oil supplements: Dirt cheap and still not worth the money. Better buy fish - fresh fish. "I told you so!" That's how someone else in my position would probably start today's blogpost. In view of the fact that "smartassing" is not exactly an effective means of education, I will yet refuse from reminding you that I've been reporting about unwanted side effects of the gold-ish pills that claim to have "fish oil" in them on various occasions. And guess what!? The publication of a recent study by scientists from the  Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital at the venerable Harvard Medical School , gives me yet another reason to rant against the evermore popular fish oil supplements. You can learn more about omega-3 & co at the SuppVersity Fish Oil Makes You Rancid? POPs in Fish Oils are Toxic! N3/N6 Ratio Doesn't Matter MUFA & Fish Oil Don't Match Fish Oil Doesn...
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The Good Krill & Salmon Oil That's Bad For You: Increased Risk of Metabolic Syndrome in Men Who Supplement

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Recent Human Cross-Over Trial Puts "?" Behind Super-Supplement Status of Omega-3 Supplements Increases in omega-3 intake are among the"small dietary modifications" doctors and nutritionists like to suggest to their patients in their common battle against obesity that are comparatively easy to achieve. It is thus no wonder that millions are enthralled by the cheap fish, krill, cod and salmon oil caps you can buy in every supermarket, these days. The often (namely when they're rancid) disgustingly tasting content of the pills is believed to offer absolution from all your dietary sins, because epidemiologic (Villegas. 2011; Djoussé. 2011) and animal evidence suggested that these n–3 PUFAs may in fact improve insulin sensitivity and metabolic risk. You can learn more about omega-3 & co at the SuppVersity Fish Oil Makes You Rancid? POPs in Fish Oils are Toxic! N3/N6 Ratio Doesn't Matter MUFA & Fish Oil Don't Match Fish Oil Do...
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Revisiting the Fish Oil is Good For Heart & Brain Mantra: SU.FOL.OM3 Trial Says High Omega-3 Good For the Heart, High Arachidonic Acid (LC N6-PUFA) Good for the Brain!

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I never believed that it was a good idea to pay for and consume for the capped extract of what has long been the useless waste of the fishery industry and is now called "fish oil". Fishing, and eating real , whole fish, on the other hand, is something I wholeheartedly recommend. I am, as most of you should know, no real fan of correlation analyses such as the one SuppVersity reader Roy Nelson, recently pointed me to, but in view of the fact that they are the best we have, when it comes to the assessment of the long-term effects of high vs. low omega-3 intakes (actually rather serum levels), I still decided to give the SU.FOL.OM3 trial a go. The study is after all "more controlled" than your usual epidemiological guesswork and with 2,263 patients who were enrolled in the SUpplementation with FOLate, vitamins B-6 and B-12 and/or OMega-3 fatty acid trial (SU.FOL.OM3) sufficieently powered (meaning it has enough subjects to provide relevant results and determine ...
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No Magic Numbers: The Omega-3:Omega-6 (N3/N6) Ratio - Higher is Better, But as Part of the Standard American Diet Even a 1:1 Ratio Won't Protect You Against Diabesity

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Eating "like an American" makes you fat and sick. No matter what the omega-3 to omega-6 ratio of your diet may be. It is a pity. Yeah, if the latest study from the University of South Carolina was a human study, it would finally provide a definitive answer to the question how much omega-3 we actually need. Well, I should clarify: It would provide an answer to the question how much omega-3 we need with a given baseline omega-6 intake. In view of the fact that the study duration was 20 weeks, it would yet take more than 60 (human) years to find out, whether the ratio of n-3/n-6 in the diet is in fact as irrelevant as the reslts Reilly T. Enos et al. present in their latest paper would suggest. You can learn more about omega-3 & co at the SuppVersity Fish Oil Makes You Rancid? Are All Fats Bad For You? Fish Oil & GLA vs. Acne MUFA & Fish Oil Don't Match Fish Oil Doesn't Help Lose Weight Rancid Fish Bad 4 Health Over those 20 w...
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