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 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 | 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...
by OmegaQuant | Nov 2, 2020 | Brain Health, Heart Health, Mental Health, Research, Vitamin D
Vitamin D holds a special place among most nutrients because it is both a vitamin found in many foods and supplements, as well as a hormone that your body makes in response to the sun. Its story has also evolved considerably over the years from being a supporting...
