Benefits of Vitamin C and Fish Oil Omega-3

by Jessica

I just bought fish oil omega-3 and vitamin C 1000, the fish oil is 300mg and I take it 3 times a day. The vitamin C 1000 is 1000mg and I take that once a day in the morning. Is that how much I should be taking? What are the benefits of those? How long will I start seeing improvement?

Thanks

Jessica

Answer:

Hello Jessica. Most commercial fish oils have 1.000 mg of fish oil (with 180 mg of EPA and 120 mg of DHA, the active ingredients in fish oil). You will have to know how much EPA and DHA are there in your 300 mg per capsule fish oil.

What I recommend is 3.000 mg per day of fish oil (close to 900 mg of EPA plus DHA) as a preventive measure if you are healthy and at your ideal weight. If you are overweight, have hypertension, diabetes, high triglycerides, etc…I recommend starting with 6.000 mg of fish oil.

Basically, fish oil is an essential fat and it goes to the membranes of each of your body cells to make them more flexible. This flexibility in the membranes creates a number of benefits in every part of your organism, it decreases general inflammation (important in your cardiovascular, neurological and immune systems) and improves omega 3/ omega 6 ratio balance (we should have a 1/1 ratio but normally have 1/20).

There are more than 55 fish oil benefits, please read more at http://www.omega-3-fish-oil-wonders.com/fish-oil-benefits.html

Vitamin C is an antioxidant. Every time you move or spend energy you produce waste from your body cells. This waste is in the form of burned oxygen that could attack your other body cells producing accelerated aging.

But if you have enough antioxidants to counterattack, you can cut the damage from oxidants. Some people recommend 500 mg per day of vitamin C, I personally use 3x 1.000 mg, one with each meal.

Regarding the time to see improvement, I don’t really know if you are referring to an specific disease but if you mean in your overall health, I would say you will benefit from the first day but it depends on the problem and other factors like your eating and exercise habits you have.

If your diet if full of omega 6 foods (brads, sugars, starches, etc), your improvement is slower or may never be apparent because omega 6 uses the same enzymes the body needs to assimilate omega 3, so there is less omega 3 avaliable.

Please, read Healthy Weight


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Alfredo E.
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