A high dose (4g/day) of purified EPA fish oil taken for 5 years reduced heart attacks and strokes by 25% compared to placebo in patients with high triglycerides.

“A very high dose of purified EPA fish oil (4g/day) for 5 years reduced heart attacks and strokes by 25% compared to placebo in a multinational randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial involving over 8,000 patients with high triglycerides.”

“people were given I mean we're talking large large um populations of people were given four grams a day for was it two five years and their cardiovascular disease risk and the risk of having a cardiovascular event whether that was a heart attack or a stroke that was reduced by 25% compared to placebo.”

“These individuals had about a 30% lower um uh heart attack risk compared to placebo. This was a 5-year study. These are large randomized control trials.”

“They were given either four grams of vipa this is a pharmaceutical grade prescription form of purified EPA or they were given a placebo control for five years and after the five years a variety of different outcomes were looked at right and what was found was that the people that were given this vipa this high dose EPA and it was four grams. They actually had about a 25% lower um risk of all sorts of cardiovascular events, death, eskeemic events.”