Understanding Fish Oil Labels

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@lylemcd

I tend to assume fairly standard dosing as mos fish oils are about the same (180 mg epa/120 mg DHA or I may have those reversed). So total active fish oil is 3 grams/day.

Of course, if your fish oils ar higher concentrated (e.g. some of the pharmaceutical brands are like 360 mg epa/240 DHA so you only need half as many), you won’t need as many. So it’s probably better to talk in term of active fish oil (total epa/dha) to avoid confusion.

There is data that that level will saturate a variety of different tissues so I don’t see much need to take more than that, even as an athlete.

Lyle

Lyle-
You are correct regarding standard dosing however if we are talking in terms of EPA/DHA 180mg + 120 mg = .3 of a gram not 3 grams. So to get 3 grams we are looking at taking 10 of them. Reguarding reccomendations from what I have read and others I have spoken to I still see around 10 grams for athletes. For this to make sense and without draining your bank account it seems that this could be made possible by going with “trueproteins” product which is the same amount per capsule as we both said 180+120=.3 and taking 30 of them per day which would equal 10 grams. They sell 1000 for 24$ which would basically last 1 month. So 24$ for 10 grams of fish oil per day would be 24$a month.