so confused once agian. I have been feeling run down so my doctor told me to take 3,000mg of omega 3 fatty acids. I went shopping for them and all the bottles have way smaller amounts in them like 665mg and 650 This would mean I need to take at least 4 of them. So I began a search on the web about depression and fatty acids and it said that EPA was needed in 3,000mg. This just confused me more because the containers I bought have even less of this 400mg and 350mg.
Do any of you know anything about this stuff???
I see you had some answers from nutritionally trained people so my response may be a bit superfluous, but I was going to suggest seeing Caroline Denton, a holistic nutritionist at Abbot Northwestern.
Hi B.
I work as a wellness coach and there is some merit to what you Doctor is saying. Many clients take one tab 3x per day and EAT food like salmon, flax seed, etc to get healthy omega 3's. However one of our company docs takes up to 9 a day as he feels this is a key nutrient many lack and the new studies elude that its really important in multi organ functions.
It's been linked to mom brain, post partem, depression overall. It takes a new mom 3 years to rebuild stores after having a baby as the child sucks dry the mom's stores without supplementation for brain development- so they say.
I have a client who regularly eats salmon-- when she stopped she called me saying she felt depressed and confused and within 2 weeks on supplementation she felt 'normal' and went back to eating and supplementation long term. HER body is sensitive to levels.
There are more potent forms in KRILL OIL. They are also more expensive.
Look for pharmaceutical grade products - meaning within 2% of what the label says. Regular grade can be off by 35%. They also don't leave you with fish taste later but a good trick is to freeze them and take them cold.
A good fish oil test- take an old fashion styrofoam cup- the old picnic kind not the new kind of food container. It's partially made of fat component plastic. Anyway-- fill it with 98 degree water. Drop in your fish oil supplement. It will melt the cup instantly if its' a good quality oil. Do it over a sink!! It's like inside the body- omega 3's are heart healthy and should help rid the body of the gooey plaque laying down.
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It's an easy test- give it a shot before you go on meds as they have many side effects.
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This is an excellent product for several reasons.
1) one packet is a whole day's recommended amount
2) it absorbs better into your system 300% better than a gell tab
3) it actaually doesn't taste bad. No fish burps afterward.
the website is very informative and the products can be bought online, at many pharmacies & in most wholefoods stores.
Wonderful, wonderful product! I buy my EPA/DHA 700 omega 3 fatty acids from my natureopathic doctor. I can't seem to find them in a high enough amount unless I buy them from him.
Dr. Mercola sells krill oil that is quite high in amounts. That would also be a good place to look to purchase.
And check out vitacost.com. They have high, high amounts of very good vitamin companies; that is, all of their products are natural and real and not synthetic like you find at pharmacies or grocery stores or stores like Walgreens, WalMart, Target, CVC, etc.
I only buy my supplements from the companies that use real, whole food, natural ingredients to make their supplements (like from Whole Foods, vitacost.com, my local co-op). I want the dollars I spent to go to companies who are manufacturing products that my body can actually use.
As a trained nutritional consultant, all I can say when I read posts like this is "oh dear..." The doctor, who has had very little nutritional training (if any) just sends you out to the mystery of the supermarket or the health food store for you to fend for yourself.
One of the reasons you've been told to take SO much is that pills have very low absorption rates. According to the Physician's Desk Reference, pills are absorbed only 15-30% depending on how they are manufactured and how much shellac and wax (gross, I know) is used to coat them so they pop out of the mold. Even after the coating is worn away, your body has to digest the whole pill and then absorb the nutrients. Not likely to happen.
The other problem is that it's very difficult to pin all your success on one ingredient. Omega 3s are very important, don't get me wrong, but so are more than 70 other ingredients (which used to be found in our food but aren't any longer for a variety of reasons) - and you need a balance of those essential nutrients because they all rely on each other for proper functioning.
Depression is complicated - and so is exhaustion. They can go together, one can trigger the other, or you can have one and not the other (but the symptoms of one can mask as symptoms of the other). I can't tell from your question if you came across depression in your search on line, or if it prompted your search.
Happy to help you more if you want it - but in general, you don't want pills and you don't want pre-mixed liquids (because any proteins in them break down over time). Microbiologists and food scientists agree on this. Cellular nutrition is very difficult to do without highly absorbable, comprehensive products.
So, the short answer is, it doesn't matter how many milligrams you swallow - it matters how many are absorbed. And do you really want to pay for and swallow 4 pills a day and absorb only 20% of each?
Let me know what else you are doing for omega 3s and for exhaustion (any other supplements) and then I can give you more advice.
Looks like from this website that the dosing you're finding is more what's considered appropriate for a "healthy" individual, which is what most vitamins/supplements are geared toward.\
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/HeartHealth/story?id=8240586...
