Now that you’ve spent enough of your time researching you really must get out there and buy those omega 3 supplements that you should be taking every day. But once you start looking you’ll find that there’s so many brands of omega 3 supplements that it’s confusing. How do you decide which are the best omega 3 supplements?

This 4 things you need to think about than trying to decide which are the best fish oil supplements for you.

1. Must compare the supplements by the amount of DHA in each.

DHA and EPA are the 2 essential fatty acids known as Omega 3 fatty acids that result in all the health benefits from taking supplements. DHA is the most important of these 2.

Fish oil is not 100 percent DHA. If you look on the label of any bottles of fish oil supplements it should tell you what percentage of DHA you are getting. If it says nothing about this then you have no idea what you are buying.

Different brands of fish oil supplements have less than 10 percent DHA while the best have almost 30 percent.

2. Compare Omega 3 supplements by value not by price.

It is impossible to compare capsules by price purely because it’s only the DHA that you’re buying and there is widely differing amounts of DHA in different capsules. You cannot compare the price of an 8 percent DHA capsule with a 28 percent DHA capsule. The only way to compare fish oil supplements is on a cost per gram of DHA basis.

3.You must get the capsules with the freshest oil.

Fish oil, like most other things, can go off and does so. If fish oil goes off it becomes rancid and smells bad and if you take fish oil capsules with rancid oil you may well experience that nasty fishy burp sensation. Some manufacturers even use masking fragrances to help mask the smell of rancid oil. It is essential that you use fish oil capsules that use the freshest fish oil.

Rancid fish oil is bad for your health.

4. Compare supplements by cleanliness.

It is well known that fish are contaminated with such toxins as mercury, PCBs, pesticides and heavy metals. The most contaminated fish come from the north Atlantic and the cleanest fish come from the ocean the furthest away from any people, the southern ocean between New Zealand and Antarctica. The best fish oil capsules use oil sourced from fish from the southern ocean and use two separate processes to ensure that there are no detectable levels of contaminants at all. Then they have their oil tested by an independent laboratory and publish the certificate of analysis on their website.

If you compare the available brands of omega 3 supplements using these comparisons you’ll find that there is a fish oil supplement available that has 28 percent DHA, that uses fish sourced from the southern ocean, that has a certificate of analysis available for you to consider, and which uses the very freshest oil that it’s possible to get. It is also the cheapest when doing a cost per gram of DHA basis.

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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