Higher levels of omega-3 acids in the blood increases life expectancy by almost five years

Science Daily / IMIM / The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ^ | July 22, 2021 | Michael I McBurney, Nathan L Tintle, Ramachandran S Vasan, Aleix Sala-Vila, William S Harris

[ConservativeMind]

The saturated fatty acids you want to have are:

1. Myristic acid (Tetradecanoic acid) (palm kernel oil, coconut oil, butterfat, bovine milk, and breast milk) 2. Behenic acid (Docosanoic acid) (from canola and peanut oil (and peanut skins)

The Omega-7 monounsaturated fatty acid you don’t want:

Palmitoleic acid (in vegetable oil, meat fat, macadamia oil, sea hawthorn oil)

[ConservativeMind]

Original study:

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ajcn/nqab195/6301120

[PeterPrinciple]

Do we really want another 5 years?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Correlation is not causation.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Don’t you want to stick around to see how it all turns out?

[PeterPrinciple]

Don’t you want to stick around to see how it all turns out?

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Some days, no.......................

[ProtectOurFreedom]

A couple years ago, my GP said that he no longer recommended daily fish oil supplements as the research was inconclusive at best.

Too bad this paper didn’t look at fish oil supplements vs fresh oily fish.

[CatOwner]

Sadly, POTD

[PeterPrinciple]

“Being a regular smoker takes 4.7 years off your life expectancy, the same as you gain if you have high levels of omega-3 acids in your blood,” he adds.

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Well, the good news is it might let me take up a bad habit.

[Kickass Conservative]

Well, you could smoke Fish Oil and really cause confusion..

[PeterPrinciple]

https://www.bmc.org/stroke-and-cerebrovascular-center/research/framingham-study

and interesting long term study?

but remember statistics NEVER gives you an answer, at best it leads to another question..

[Dogbert41]

"Do we really want another 5 years?"

[PeterPrinciple]

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[ChildOfThe60s]

These articles always refer to fish oil as omega 3 sources.
Cold pressed flax seed oil is an excellent source of omega 3 fatty acids and you don’t burp up fishy taste. Also, flax seed oil has a very good ratio of omega 3 to omega 6 fatty acids which is also key.

Flax oil will lower your cholesterol numbers.

[CatOwner]

Post of the day

[Mr Rogers]

I started taking fish oil supplements 3 months ago. Don’t know about my heart but it has done wonders for my digestive system! Particularly when combined with magnesium.

[ConservativeMind]

The problem is that this study found no benefit from ALA, which is the Omega-3 fat in flaxseed. Our bodies only convert 15-20% of ALA into the EPA or DHA that the study showed were actually life giving.

[blueplum]

so-called red blood cells

what’s with the ‘so-called’ ? are blood cells racists, too?

[SauronOfMordor]

I try to eat wild-caught ocean fish.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I have read that the process for utilizing flax vs fish oil is different. Still, while flax may, or may not, not be as efficient, it is still a viable source. Fish oil is of no value if a person like myself won’t take it. ;-)