The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
In humans, not all ALA is converted to EPA, and only 5-8% and 0.5-5% of ALA is converted to EPA and DHA, while salmon oil and algea oil (Phaeodactylum tricornutum) have 13% and 18% and 36.5% and 23.6% readily bioavailable EPA and DHA, respectively.
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I just have a problem with it being a substitute for fish oils or omega-3 long-chain omega-3 because it doesn't but ala itself I mean I don't think it's a bad idea to take ala products rich rich oils as well as take fish oils but we don't really know the mechanism but I think there's probably going to be some metabolites of ala itself
it is widely believed that only 0.5 of dha and epa are made from conversion of ama that number though you have to take it with a grain of salt because there might be evidence that in diets vegetarians or vegans who do not eat fish that conversion rate may actually be much higher but despite that that conversion rate has not been documented to exceed five percent so at the most five percent of dha and epa can come from ala although most people argue that it's only 0.5
but it's you know in the neighborhood two three four five percent you know of ala going to epa ala going to dha is less i mean that for the epa that's produced doesn't go on dha so it's not a good source of dha for sure