by Jerry Kramer | Jun 15, 2020
Increase your intake of EPA+DHA. The amount you would need to take in order to raise your Omega-3 Index into the target range (>8%) depends in part on your starting level, but it cannot be predicted with certainty as described above. Nevertheless, if your Omega-3...
by Jerry Kramer | Jun 15, 2020
For private pay individuals submitting a dried blood spot for analysis, once the sample is received at OmegaQuant, the results will be available within 3-5 working days.
by Jerry Kramer | Jun 15, 2020
Whole blood and RBCs are different starting materials and the EPA+DHA content of each is different, but highly correlated. Based on multiple experiments, we have derived a mathematical equation that converts the DBS EPA+DHA value into the corresponding RBC value...
by Jerry Kramer | Jun 15, 2020
The Omega-3 Index Complete report no longer includes percentile ranks, but instead provides the fatty acid values representing 99% of all samples measured at OmegaQuant over the last 10 years. You can see if you are higher or lower within the range of normal values...
by Jerry Kramer | Jun 15, 2020
The reference ranges are provided simply to give an idea of how these values compare to a large number of others taken from a relatively healthy population. In the case of the dried blood spot assay, the reference range was taken from approximately 75,000 dried blood...
