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You can also eat fish that are low on the food chain like sardines.

westurner 5y ago
Fish don't synthesize Omega PUFAs, they eat algae (which unfortunately and inopportunely stains teeth) From "Warning: Combination of Omega-3s in Popular Supplements May Blunt Heart Benefits" https://scitechdaily.com/warning-combination-of-omega-3s-in-popular-supplements-may-blunt-heart-benefits/ https://scitechdaily.com/warning-combination-of-omega-3s-in-... : > Now, new research from the Intermountain Healthcare Heart Institute in Salt Lake City finds that higher EPA blood levels alone lowered the risk of major cardiac events and death in patients, while DHA blunted the cardiovascular benefits of EPA. Higher DHA levels at any level of EPA, worsened health outcomes. > Results of the Intermountain study, which examined nearly 1,000 patients over a 10-year-period, > “Based on these and other findings, we can still tell our patients to eat Omega-3 rich foods, but we should not be recommending them in pill form as supplements or even as combined (EPA + DHA) prescription products,” he said. “Our data adds further strength to the findings of the recent REDUCE-IT (2018) study that EPA-only prescription products reduce heart disease events.” Now they're sayin'; so I go look for an EPA-only supplement, and TIL about re-esterified triglyceride and it says it's molecularly distilled anchovies in blister packages. Which early land mammals probably ate, so.
- mgcross 5y ago
  I found this comment too late... Already ordered a "kids" supplement that has a 2:1 ratio of DHA:EPA.
  - adrian_b 5y ago
    I do not think that you should be much concerned about this, because other studies show that more DHA than EPA is preferable when using other criteria. So the conclusion is that nobody knows for sure if you should eat more DHA than EPA, to have a better brain, or less DHA than EPA, to have a better heart. What is certain is that you need some minimum quantity of both DHA and EPA. Especially for children, who do not have yet to worry about cardio-vascular problems, a supplement with more DHA than EPA seems actually a good choice.

Fish don't synthesize Omega PUFAs, they eat algae (which unfortunately and inopportunely stains teeth) From "Warning: Combination of Omega-3s in Popular Supplements May Blunt Heart Benefits" https://scitechdaily.com/warning-combination-of-omega-3s-in-popular-supplements-may-blunt-heart-benefits/ https://scitechdaily.com/warning-combination-of-omega-3s-in-... : > Now, new research from the Intermountain Healthcare Heart Institute in Salt Lake City finds that higher EPA blood levels alone lowered the risk of major cardiac events and death in patients, while DHA blunted the cardiovascular benefits of EPA. Higher DHA levels at any level of EPA, worsened health outcomes. > Results of the Intermountain study, which examined nearly 1,000 patients over a 10-year-period, > “Based on these and other findings, we can still tell our patients to eat Omega-3 rich foods, but we should not be recommending them in pill form as supplements or even as combined (EPA + DHA) prescription products,” he said. “Our data adds further strength to the findings of the recent REDUCE-IT (2018) study that EPA-only prescription products reduce heart disease events.” Now they're sayin'; so I go look for an EPA-only supplement, and TIL about re-esterified triglyceride and it says it's molecularly distilled anchovies in blister packages. Which early land mammals probably ate, so.

mgcross 5y ago
I found this comment too late... Already ordered a "kids" supplement that has a 2:1 ratio of DHA:EPA.
- adrian_b 5y ago
  I do not think that you should be much concerned about this, because other studies show that more DHA than EPA is preferable when using other criteria. So the conclusion is that nobody knows for sure if you should eat more DHA than EPA, to have a better brain, or less DHA than EPA, to have a better heart. What is certain is that you need some minimum quantity of both DHA and EPA. Especially for children, who do not have yet to worry about cardio-vascular problems, a supplement with more DHA than EPA seems actually a good choice.