Andrew Huberman· PhD
But the research and the literature shows that you want to get above a thousand milligrams of EPA per day, because that's when you can best support your metabolism and position yourself for good fat loss.
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But the research and the literature shows that you want to get above a thousand milligrams of EPA per day, because that's when you can best support your metabolism and position yourself for good fat loss.
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The key thing is to get the levels of EPA that you ingest above 1000 milligrams per day.
can also be beneficial for other things such as mood and indeed there's a whole literature related to effects of ingesting one to three grams again three grams per day of EPA so that's going to require quite a high intake of Omega-3s in whatever form or supplement you decide to take those into your body but that that can improve mood and so forth