by OmegaQuant | Feb 17, 2021 | Blood Pressure, Heart Health, Research, Vitamin D
Valentine’s Day is over, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t still be looking out for your loved ones. Especially because it’s February—and that means it’s American Heart Month, a time of year dedicated to the importance of being heart healthy and discovering ways we...
by OmegaQuant | Feb 11, 2021 | Blood Pressure, Heart Health, Omega-3 Index, Omega-3s, Research
From red candy hearts to red roses by the dozen and from gooey sentimental greeting cards to heart-felt wedding proposals, there’s plenty to remind us that February anchors the holiday for lovers, Valentine’s Day. And as that heart-pumping holiday raises the stakes on...
by OmegaQuant | Feb 4, 2021 | Blood Pressure, EPA & DHA, Heart Health, Omega-3 Index, Omega-3s, Research
Those who take fish oil no doubt have their heart health in mind in choosing to take these types of nutritional supplements. First, the omega-3s in fish oil, namely EPA and DHA, are responsible for conferring some protective benefits for the heart. But what kinds of...
by OmegaQuant | Jan 28, 2021 | EPA & DHA, Mother's Milk DHA Testing, Omega-3s, Prenatal DHA
So you’ve taken a Prenatal DHA Test and now you want to understand what your results mean. In this blog, we’ll take you through some of the most commons questions people have after taking a test. If you haven’t taken one yet and you are pregnant, perhaps you will...
by OmegaQuant | Jan 21, 2021 | Brain Health, Cognitive Health, EPA & DHA, Omega-3 Index, Omega-3s, Research
Would it surprise you to know that an estimated 189 million American adults forged into 2021 armed with New Year’s resolutions? These optimists started the year with the best intentions to improve their lives, making secret pinky-swear promises with themselves,...
by OmegaQuant | Jan 14, 2021 | Brain Health, Cognitive Health, Mental Health, Omega-3 Index, Omega-3s, Research
Like so many of us, you may look to January as an opportunity for new beginnings, a way to banish all the bad habits you picked up the year before—to bag the chips and dips in favor of recommitting to veggies, fruits and healthy fats like omega-3s; to find the...
by OmegaQuant | Jan 6, 2021 | Brain Health, EPA & DHA, Mother's Milk DHA Testing, Omega-3 Index, Omega-3s, Prenatal DHA
To start off 2021, we are bringing you the most popular blogs of 2020. Some were not surprising, and yet others were a bit unexpected. Given the unprecedented events of last year, perhaps the swings in popular content should not be all that shocking. In order of...
by OmegaQuant | Dec 22, 2020 | EPA & DHA, Heart Health, Omega-3 Index, Omega-3s, Research, Vitamin D
For our last blog of the year, we decided to look back at a few important developments that impacted omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin D in 2020. First, it would be foolish to put together a review of 2020 without mentioning COVID-19. We will talk about the potential...
by OmegaQuant | Dec 7, 2020 | Mental Health, Omega-3 Index, Omega-3s, Vitamin D
As some of us enter the winter months, the level of available sunlight will drop dramatically and with that people’s natural production of vitamin D, a nutrient that has received widespread global attention since COVID-19 reared its ugly head earlier this year. We at...
by OmegaQuant | Nov 18, 2020 | Brain Health, Cognitive Health, EPA & DHA, Mental Health, Omega-3 Index, Omega-3s, Prenatal DHA
In this week’s blog, we are going to provide one of the most comprehensive roundups of how omega-3 levels (i.e. Omega-3 Index) in the blood (and brain!) relate to the insidious mental health disorder of depression. Small or large, all of the studies we are going to...
