RainierWolfcastle
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Are there any rules of thumb or recommendation on how much fish oil or flax seed oil to take a day ?
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How much fish oil per day
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Mindwraith
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8 grams unless you've got a bleeding condition, in that case just 1. Generally thats 1 tablespoon of Flax, but I recommend Fish gel caps, it will say how much each cap contains and thats how much you take depending.
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oatmealandtuna
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I've heard you should get 6-10 grams of EPA/DHA a day.
Mindwraith
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Well, 240/260 mg of dha/epa a day is the recommended dosage by the american heart assoc. However thats even if you have bleeding issues. If no blood problems then up to 6g is good.
Its a pity that no real research has used 6-10g dha/epa. What htey have used is around 6g total fish oil.
Now how much to use depends on which research you look at
for normal heart disease risk, about 1g shows a vast improvemnt
for the nutrient partitioning effect human studies use around 6g fishoil/day
for anti-inflammatory effects a range of 1-18g daily could be useful
from the Stephen Clarke research, it seems like about 5% of you caloric intake should be from fish oils (12g total on a 2000kcal diet)
YMMV
Now how much to use depends on which research you look at
for normal heart disease risk, about 1g shows a vast improvemnt
for the nutrient partitioning effect human studies use around 6g fishoil/day
for anti-inflammatory effects a range of 1-18g daily could be useful
from the Stephen Clarke research, it seems like about 5% of you caloric intake should be from fish oils (12g total on a 2000kcal diet)
YMMV