At the beginning of the article, Team Suo first emphasized:
- This article is popular science knowledge, and the advertising content is 0;
- Fish oil products are basically made from Peruvian fisheries, because of the low cost and low pollution.
At the beginning, Team Suo said something straightforward: fish oil or krill oil is a T0 health supplement.
Before talking about fish oil or krill oil, why omega 3s are important
1. Omega3 protection "protects" telomeres
According to telomere, telomeres shorten when cells divide, and when telomeres are shortened to a certain extent, the cell cannot continue to divide, telomeres are depleted, and chromosomes cannot remain stable.
Study 1: In 2022, Ogluszka et al. published a new paper on the effect of omega-3 fatty acids on telomeres: the degree of telomere shortening is directly proportional to the risk of death.
Study 2: A Chinese study comparing 711 patients with CAD with 638 without CAD found that omega-3 fatty acid levels, particularly DHA and EPA, were positively correlated with telomere length.
2. Omega3 is excellent in terms of anti-inflammatory effects
A study published in the Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that omega-3 fatty acid supplementation significantly reduced levels of inflammatory markers, thereby helping to control chronic inflammatory states (Calder, 2017).
This has important implications for the management of chronic inflammation-related diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and autoimmune diseases.
3. Omega3 contributes to heart health
The benefits of omega3s for cardiovascular health have been extensively studied.
Omega 3 supplementation has been shown to reduce the risk of heart attack, improve blood lipid levels, and lower blood pressure (Abdelhamid et al., 2018).
4. Why does the Suo team always emphasize: (fish oil must be eaten with high omega3 content) because there are few impurities.
The difference between fish oil with 30% omega 3 content and 90% omega 3 content is 60% impurities, and this 60% impurity is the ingredient that will make your body bad and inflammation more.
So eating low-purity fish oil = eating bad fish oil.
So, what's the difference between fish oil and krill oil?
Krill oil is extracted from Antarctic krill, and it is indeed very similar to fish oil, but there are also significant differences.
Team Cable's formula:
- Fish oil = Omega3 + omega6 (depending on the content) + very few other ingredients
- Krill oil = Omega3 (different in structure) + phosphatidylcholine + astaxanthin + omega6 (minimal) + some other ingredients (such as vitamins)
First of all, krill oil also contains omega 3.
But mainly in the form of phospholipids, fatty acids have phosphate groups at the ends, and this structure has a higher absorption rate, but in low content.
Therefore, only from the perspective of omega 3 content, fish oil is far more cost-effective than krill oil.
After all, the omega 3 content of fish oil can be as high as 90% or even 97%, while the omega 3 content of krill oil is only 20%-40%.
But omega 3s aside, krill oil contains other valuable ingredients.
Krill oil contains more phosphatidylcholine and astaxanthin, which is a strong antioxidant.
Therefore, krill oil is better than fish oil in terms of comprehensive functions such as antioxidant and skin management.
In addition, it contains phosphatidylcholine, which is also very friendly to the brain.
Therefore, when it comes to omega 3 content, fish oil is greater than krill oil;
Depending on the overall function (e.g., skin), krill oil is greater than fish oil.
Bottom line: Krill oil has many advantages and can be mixed with fish oil, but whether or not to eat it depends on your budget.