EPA DHA In Omega 3 - Ever Wonder What It Means?

Well, I can’t pronounce it, but do understand whydiets replacing it with an over abundance of Omega 3
we need it. Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) is afrom seed oil from fast food eating, restaurants,
long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid in fish that tens ofprepackaged foods, we hardly take in a drop of
thousands of research studies confirm is essential foressential Omega 3 EPA DHA from Fish Oil. I am
a host of things, from cardiovascular health, high bloodcapitalizing that for a reason. We are getting plenty of
pressure and cholesterol, painful chronic inflammation,Omega 3 Seed Oil, so plentifully we are floating in it
circulatory, and so-on through the list of diet-relatedcausing chronic inflammation. See TIME cover story, 2
diseases.04. Research has come a long way since that article.
Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is another long-chainToday’s textbook science. If they ever got
essential fatty acid in fish that countless researchtogether and talked, they could agree conclusively.
shows is beneficial for Alzheimer patients, all mannerNow the latest research tells us that not all EPA and
of brain deficiencies, children with attention deficitDHA are created equal for the healing benefits from
disorder, eye impairments, and more recently, macularfatty fish such as salmon, mackerel, sardines, tuna far
degeneration.outweigh the benefits of cod and other white fish.
So basically, it’s two essential fatty acids thatNow you can see why it is so important to know the
we need to improve our health. Of all the countries insource of the fish in the supplement you are taking.
the world, Americans suffer more disease and illnessOne of my first purchases of fish oil was a
from rarely eating fish and instead, consuming Omega“blended fish” with no noticeable
3 seed oil in its place. Dr. Joseph Hibbeln, Nationalimprovements in my blood pressure or chronic pain.
Institutes of Health, world’s leading authority onWell, little did I know then but the price was just so
Omega 3 explains it all so well. (Visitreasonable!
There are thousands of world-wide studies on theIf you want your health to improve, and since every
healing benefits of EPA and DHA and if they all gotmedical research study from Harvard to UCLA all say
together, talked to each other, they could stop endingwe have to either eat more fish or supplement, make
each study with “but more research issure it’s a fatty fish from the right source,
indicated.” Suffice it to say, Americans needmolecularly distilled, guaranteed free of contaminants or
EPA DHA Omega 3 more than the citizens of mostyou’re not only wasting your money, your health
countries. As we systematically removed fish from ourwill not improve.