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If you want the maximum health benefits, you should avoid taking pure EPA fish oil capsules. Although this type of omega 3 fatty acid is important, you will be losing out on most of the health benefits by not getting enough of the most essential fatty acid.
DHA fatty acid is the king of fats and responsible for the powerful anti-inflammatory properties that fish oils are known for. If you use pure EPA fish oil, you will not get this most important of benefits and here's why.
Only the DHA fats are converted by your body into a powerful anti-inflammatory chemical called Resolvin D2. This lowers inflammation throughout your body and reduces your chance of sudden death from a heart attack by up to 40%.
Another reason that pure EPA fish oil is ineffective is for brain health.
Your brain is made up of 60% fats and half of these are DHA, not EPA. The right fats are essential to keep the membranes healthy, improving your memory, reducing depression and anxiety and even helping to prevent Alzheimer's too.
DHA fats are also to be found in abundance in the retina of the eye, helping to improve your vision and avoid age-related eye disease (AMD), which tends to affect the over 55's.
What you want is the optimal ratio of DHA to EPA, which is 2:1. I would recommend you get at least 270mg of DHA in each capsule of 1000mg.
You may be surprised to learn that this is quite a difficult task!
Almost all the oils available today contain far more EPA because it is cheaper to source and use (increases profits) and also because most companies are behind in the latest research.
Check the label or website to see the individual DHA/EPA levels and avoid the oil if this information is missing or if they are combined.
Pure and fresh oil is important and will offer many more benefits. Molecularly distilled oil is the best and a blend of tuna and hoki will give you more than twice the anti-inflammatory benefits of any other oil.
The distillation removes all the many toxins that the fish pick up today including mercury and arsenic. If your oil is not distilled, you can ingest traces of these toxins which cancel out most of the benefits so again, check the label or website.
So there you have it, why you should avoid pure EPA fish oil in favor of one that is pure and rich in DHA fats instead.
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