Omega 3 Dosage – Easy Rules For Fish Oil Dosage
Question:
Omega 3 Dosage. I am a little confused after reading all this information about fish oil. Please, in a few words, how much fish oil per day? By Jacques M
Answer: Fish oil is deficient in most people's diets, and it is absolutely critical to your heart, brain, and overall health. The optimum fish oil dosage has yet to be determined. The reason to supplement with omega 3 is that modern nutrition has 20 to 50 times less omega 3 that what we need in order to keep us healthy. Basically all process food is full of pro inflammatory omega 6(all grains, carbohydrates, sugars, sodas, etc). We should take 3.000 mg of fish oil everyday (equivalent to 900 mg of omega 3 fats) if we are at our ideal weight and have no degenerative disease like high blood pressure or diabetes. For children, about the same. If you are heavy, lean to the higher end of the range, that is 10 grams/day. If you are treating a health condition you can begin with 5 grams /day and see what happens. That is the case with high triglycerides, they react to doses, so you would need a blood test.
If you want to be more technical there is a blood test, Araquidonic Acid/Eicosapentaenoic acid, AA/EPA, that can give you a more exact measurement. It should be between 1.5 to 3 to have your omega 6 and omega 3 balanced.
There is also the triglycerides/ HDL cholesterol test, that can give you and indirect measurement of your Omega 6/3 ratio and it is a lot cheaper. It should be close to 1.
The amounts of fish oil dosage can be expressed in omega 3 fatty acids dosage. You just have to remember that the EPA and DHA, that is the essential fatty acids, are the main active components of Fish oil. See .
What is Omega 3
Usually, a fish oil supplement or fish oil pill, have 1 gram of fish oil. In that fish oil there are 180 mgrs of EPA and 120 mgrs of DHA. That is a total of 300 mgrs of fatty acids. So, one fish oil capsule or pill have 30% fatty acids.
Some fish oil supplements have different fatty acids content. If you buy liquid fish oil it usually have about 800 mgrs of fatty acids/teaspoon. You have to pay attention for theses numbers when you buy it. Keep this numbers in mind to avoid confusion.
Many Fish oil pills come with omega 6 and omega 3, together. Avoid these since you already have too much omega 6.
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Alfredo E.
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