How Omega-3 Supplementation Can Slow Down Aging

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Omega-3s fatty acids are essential nutrients. They have tons of health benefits for both your body and your brain.

Not many nutrients have been studied as much as omega-3 fatty acids.

This article will look at the benefits of omega-3s, especially how it helps to slow down aging.

The different forms of omega 3s

Fish oil comes in processed and natural forms. Processing fish oil can affect the fatty acids in it. This is very important because the various fatty acids have different absorbing rates. Some fatty acids absorb faster and better than others.

• Fish: Omega-3 fatty acids in whole fish are present as triglycerides, phospholipids, and free fatty acids.
• Standard fish oil: omega-3 fatty acids present as triglycerides in typical fish oils.
• Processed fish oil: During fish oil refining, the triglycerides are usually converted into ethyl esters. This allows food chemists to adjust the concentration of DHA and EPA in the oil.
• Reformed triglycerides: Food chemists can convert the ethyl esters in processed oils back into triglycerides. These new triglycerides are then called “reformed” triglycerides.