fish oil information

Fish oil is a supplement that's starting to become popular as more and more studies related to its positive effects come out. Some of the benefits of fish oil are that it helps your brain stay healthy with many studies showing how it can delay or help prevent mental diseases. Some studies have shown that adding fish oil to your diet can help you lose weight slightly.

Every day new studies pop up showing benefits of omega 3 contained in fish oil. so how do you select the best fish oil? At the back of your fish oil supplement box notice the % it has for DHA and EPA? You want at least 180 mg of both. So if your capsules are about 1000mg and 18% DHA ( 180mg) and lets say 25% EPA ( 250mg) that's perfect. Of course you can simply just eat fish. About 2-3 meals of fish per week is recommended.the importance of omega 3 is that we all consume a big amount of omega 6 in our normal diets however it is very important for our body to respect a certain ratio of omega 6 to omega 3. If you don't eat enough fish ( or other source of omega 3) than you throw your ratio off balance which is really what can cause all the opposites of the benefits in your body.

Some of the fish oil side effects are that the pollutants contained in the fish it was extracted from are still present in the supplement unless it was refined/treated. The biggest pollutant is mercury which is present in most fish that live in the deep sea because of human pollution. However time these fish accumulate a good amount of mercury which in high quantities can affect human health. For this reason it is important for pregnant women especially to avoid fish that might contain mercury and to only take supplements because omega 3 is very key for proper brain development. The fish to avoid are generally thsoe that prey on other fish and live for many years such as sharks and sword fish. So make sure to only take quality fish oil pills. Also some people complain that fish oil supplements give them a "fishy" burp as if they just ate fish. Most high quality fish oil products do not have this problem so if yours does, try a new one next time.

Also if you are vegetarian and do not want to consume fish at all than you definitely want to look into flax seed because they contain omega 6. Flax seed are really easy to add to any diet since you can add them in practically anything going from yogurt to smoothies. It's important to know that flax seed is not a complete replacement however because our body cannot  convert the source of omega 3 present in it as effortlessly as when it comes from fish oil.

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