Learn The Process Of Choosing The Best Fish Oil Supplements

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It's time to stop researching and start taking those omega 3 fish oil capsules that you know are so important to your health. But now that you have spent some time looking around you have suddenly discovered so many different brands of fish oil supplements that you really don't know which ones to buy. How do you decide which are the best fish oil supplements.

Here's 4 things for you to use to make a comparison between the different brands of fish oil supplements.

1. Compare supplements by the amount of DHA in the supplements.

DHA is the most important of all the omega 3 essential fatty acids.

Fish oil is not all DHA. In fact there is a wide variation in the amount of DHA that you find in different fish oil capsules. You can see on the label of any bottle of omega 3 capsules how much DHA you are buying. If it's not stated then you have no idea how much DHA you are getting.

The amount of DHA in fish oil capsules ranges from well under 10 percent to almost 30 percent. Some well-known fish oil capsules have only 8 percent DHA whilst the best Omega 3 capsules have 28 percent DHA.

2. Compare capsules by value, not price.

You can't compare different Omega 3 capsules by price because each may have differing levels of DHA and it's only the DHA that you're buying. You can't compare a capsule with only 8 percent DHA to another capsule that has 28 percent. The only way to make a proper comparison is a value comparison on a cost per gram of DHA basis.





3. Consider the freshness of the oil used in the supplements.

Fish oil can go off and it will go off. Once it does so it is rancid and it will smell bad and most likely you will experience that fishy burp sensation after you take the capsules. There are even manufacturers that mask the smell of rancid fish oil with masking fragrances. You must choose fish oil supplements that use the freshest oil.

And fish oil that has gone off and is rancid is not good for your health.

4. Compare supplements by cleanliness.

It is well known that fish, particularly fish from the north Atlantic, can be heavily contaminated with nasty toxins such as PCBs, pesticides and Mercury. Fish that are caught in the cleanest ocean, the southern ocean between New Zealand and Antarctica, are clean. The very best fish oil capsules use clean fish for their oil that are caught in the southern ocean and even publish a certificate of analysis on the website of the manufacturer to evidence this.

If you do all these comparisons will find there is one brand of fish oil with 28 percent DHA, that uses clean fish from the southern ocean, that publishes a certificate of analysis showing no contamination at all in their fish oil and which uses the freshest fish oil it's possible to get. And it's the cheapest on a value comparison.

These are the best fish oil supplements that it's possible to buy. To find out which ones these are visit my website.

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