by OmegaQuant | Mar 31, 2021 | Brain Health, EPA & DHA, Heart Health, Mental Health, Omega-3 Index, Omega-3s
In early March, the American Heart Association (AHA) took an important step forward to say that someone’s psychological health could be a factor in their risk for heart disease. These negative psychological health behaviors include smoking, lower levels of physical...
by OmegaQuant | Mar 11, 2021 | Brain Health, Heart Health, Mental Health, Omega-3 Index, Omega-3s, Prenatal DHA, Research
We’ve known forever that you need to eat to live. But it’s only in recent history that modern nutrition science strongly connected the concept of what you eat as a contributing factor to how long—and how well—you live. Think about it. The vitamin was first discovered...
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 | 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...
