The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
the same is true for omega-3 fats right if you're getting that's why fish is good better than fish oil because in fish you're getting the omega-3 fats as triglycerides and also as phospholipids and in fish oil you're only getting the triglyceride format
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well if they're much more readily absorbed because the esterified ones presumably is it like cholesterol whereas terrified variants are much harder to absorb and you risk actually not absorbing them at all well yeah that's the problem it's been shown pretty clearly that if you take an ethyl ester of omega-3 on an empty stomach the absorption is quite low almost none as opposed to taking it with food which improves the absorption quite a bit but a triglyceride based oil or a free fatty acid more to the point free fatty acid doesn't require any enzymatic conversion to get absorbed at all the triglyceride has to have and the ethyl ester both have to have enzymatic conversion and the gut
Modest benefit to krill due to increased bioavailability as a result of phospholipids.
The phospholipids in krill oil allow for a lower concentration of EPA and DHA since they are more bioavailable.
Krill oil provides DHA in a form (called lysoPC-DHA) that is better transported into brain
it appears to be advantaged at transporting DHA into the brain (more so than fish oil).
krill oil (DHA in phospholipids)
Krill or fish roe oil (I take this) have this form.
humans that were given doses of krill oil 38% lower than those of fish oil had the same levels of EPA and DHA in plasma as those given fish oil despite the fact that they were given a much lower dose
so all of this data suggests that the bioavailability of omega-3 fatty acids is higher in krill oil because the phospholipid form then not a fish oil in either triglyceride or ethyl ester form
the omega-3 fatty acids found in krill oil or mostly in phospholipids such as phosphatidylcholine phosphatidyl serine and phosphatidyl ethanolamine a fat soluble diacylglycerol and a water soluble phosphate group that's attached to an organic molecule such as choline or Syrian or ethanol amine what's important to understand is that the omega-3 fatty acids in phospholipids are more bioavailable than the omega-3 fatty acids in triglyceride
there's evidence demonstrating that the omega-3 fatty acids from krill oil in phospholipid form is more bioavailable than fish oil mice that were given identical doses of epa and DHA and either phospholipid triglyceride or ethyl ester form had epa and DHA plasma concentrations that were highest from those in phospholipid form followed by triglyceride form and then lastly by ethyl ester form
there are a few key characteristics that distinguish krill oil from visual that may influence the way you supplement the omega-3 fatty acids found in krill oil are more bioavailable