Adding Fish Oil Supplements to Your Diet Will Work Wonders

The benefits of fish oil supplements are so many that I wonder if I have enough room in this article to enumerate them. The major benefits are, your heart, these supplements help to improve your cardiovascular system. Taking a supplement regularly helps to prevent sudden cardiac arrest in otherwise healthy young men.

Your brain benefits greatly too. The DHA found in fish oil supplements is used constantly to rebuild your brain cells. If this DHA ever gets low you are bound to suffer bouts of depression and other emotional disorders. DHA helps to keep you in good mental health.

Omega 3 fish oil is a natural anti-inflammatory. This helps to relieve the pain and swelling associated with arthritis and other problems that need an anti-inflammatory.

The US National Institute of Health recently published a recommended daily intake of Omega 3 fatty acids. They recommend a daily dose of 650 mg of DHA and EPA and a daily dose of 2.2grams per day of ALA.

You can obtain Omega 3 ALA from plant sources such as flaxseed oil and leafy greens like purslane, plus you need to include nuts in this diet. However ALA must be converted over to DHA to benefit us and this conversion does not always take place efficiently if you are elderly or in poor health.

The best way to obtain your daily allowance of Omega 3s is to take fish oil supplements. The DHA and EPA fatty acids are the most potent of the fatty acids. You need to ensure that when you buy these supplements that the DHA is the dominant fatty acid as EPA is often put out as the sole fatty acid. Some companies do this because EPA is cheaper to produce.

Try and buy fish oil that is sourced from the deep, cold pristine waters of the Southern Ocean off the coast of New Zealand, or from Alaska or Norway. Those have the cleanest waters in the world. And the fish are high in Omega 3 DHA and EPA fatty acids.

Another thing you must make sure of is that the oil has been purified by a process called molecular distillation to remove the contaminants such as lead, mercury and the PCBs etc, this process removes the impurities by weight. This will give you what is sometimes referred to as pharmaceutical grade fish oil. The purest oil you can buy.

To summarize this, you need to buy fish oil supplements that have been through a process called molecular distillation. And you need to ensure the oil is high in DHA and EPA fatty acids.