Peter Attia· MD
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
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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
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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
ethyl ester which absolutely has to be taken with food to be absorbed.
Triglyceride form is actually more bioavailable than ethyl ester which absolutely has to be taken with food to be absorbed.
What you want is triglyceride form omega-3s. This is the natural form found in fish, and it’s better absorbed by the body.
which is the I would say more of the gold standard in my in my opinion because you actually you get you're you're absorbing so much more of that omega-3 from the triglyceride form.
So we absorb far less of omega-3 in ethylsterform than if someone were that were to then take that omega-3 that's been purified and then resterify it on a triglyceride backbone which is the I would say more of the gold standard in my in my opinion because you actually you get you're you're absorbing so much more of that omega-3 from the triglyceride form.