How much omega-3 do you need?

#82

Yes, you’re right, but in this case, my posts proving it wrong start just three messages above. Anyway, I wonder if there would be a way to put a bounty on that. I would be willing to pay someone who could prove me wrong on DHA being detrimental to health. It’s very unfortunate (and quite telling) that none of the “influencers” (beside Matt K) got back to me…

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#83

Don’t you find it concerning that practically every single health guru supplement stack features EPA/DHA, even though they may differ widely on most other supplements? There is as far as I can see near universal consensus that fishoil/long chain marine omega 3 FA must be a feature of everyone’s daily supplement. Even vegan gurus advocate algae based oils.

And yet, if you really dig deep, there seems surprisingly weak evidence in support of that. There is actually more evidence for fish consumption.

So if they all agree on such weak evidence, of what worth are the rest of their recommendations, where they even disagree among themselves.

I guess it’s the very banal truism that science or argument does not gain validation from “authority” - very shameful to have to say this. We know this from the age of 10 years old.

Deming: “In God we trust. All others must bring data.”

Where is the data?

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#84

I agree, it’s very weird. I assume that:

  1. No one does the research.
  2. It seems “natural” / “low risk”
  3. As you say there’s evidence for fish consumption so people infer from that that omega 3 supplementation is good (whereas fish consumption might be good due to avoidance of red meat and other benefits than just omega 3)
  4. It gets more complex because omega 3 is made of different components. I’m sure that if EPA and DHA were totally different supplements never sold together as part of something else then people would just get EPA. Imagine if tomorrow you cannot buy vitamins separately but you can only buy “Vitamins” containing everything. Then all health gurus would tell you to take “Vitamins”. They would be somehow right: most people need some kind of vitamins…
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#85

Then you have missed seeing Adssx at his finest and funniest in the multiple threads on his one man crusade against DHA.

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