I’ve heard very good things about high-EPA/decent DHA fish oil thats molecularly-distilled.

This seems to be a frequent recommendation (particularly if you don’t eat seafood or fish) in many health circles and I’d like to get everyone’s thoughts on best products, practices, etc.

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    Blanket advice for supplements: health benefit is minimal. Cost is high.

    Check with your doctor or dietician or some sort of expert with more credibility than random schmucks on the internet.

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      And if you must, just grab the cheapest supermarket multivitamins and take only one. It probably won’t do much, but at least you’ll only waste a few pennies per day.

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      Most fish oil is completely ineffective:

      I’ve personally noticed some powerful effects from fish oil: 1) it can act as a neotropic booster, particularly in conjunction with SRI’s and similar meds / substances, 2) it can cause me significant insomnia (no arrhythmia) if I take ~6-8 capsules.

      Is that germane to this thread? Probably not, but something seems to be going on. Maybe fish oil has been studied so far on too limited a basis.

      @[email protected]

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          Understood; just wanted to add on.

          My point is more or less that this doesn’t have to be a closed-book situation about fish oil. Maybe it can help in some other way, and/or maybe it really can work as ‘advertised’ in conjunction with other substances. Certainly wouldn’t be the first time, if so.

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          The other point I want to throw out there is that Omega 3 is essential, it cannot be endogenously provisioned, and I’m not sold that ALA sufficiently stands in for EPA and DHA

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      If you don’t have heart disease, eating two servings of fatty fish weekly or following a vegetarian diet rich in healthy oils, nuts, and seeds is a far smarter strategy than buying fish oil supplements.

      I don’t do either of those things. They are essential. What do?

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            From the 2nd link above:

            “Vegetarians (who don’t eat fish) and vegans (who avoid all animal-based foods) can meet their omega-3 requirements by eating plenty of ALA-rich foods, such as flaxseed, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, and soybean or canola oil. People who follow these plant-focused diets have lower rates of heart disease than omnivores, who include animal-sourced foods in their diets.”

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              Is it a fact that ALA is interchangeable with EPA/DHA, basically everything I’ve read on the matter talked more about those two than ALA

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              • Dont those only contain ALA?
              • Is ALA sufficient over all three or more particularly those 2?
              • Does fish contain ALA?