Joel Hayden: Wonder when
the best time to take a fish oil is? I'm going to tell you. Stick around.
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This is going to be a pretty quick video on when the best time of day is to take fish oil pills.
At the end of the video, I'm going to tell you how to find out what a good quality fish oil
is, but before that, let's get to the answer that you've been looking for.
When is the best time of day to take fish oil? What do you think? Do you think it's a, first
thing in the morning? Do you think that it is b, around your fattiest meal? Do you think it's c,
whenever you can remember on a regular basis to take it? Or do you think it's d,
end of the day? Well,
kind of a curve ball question. The answer depends on you. If you're the type of person that's really
regimented and can really hone in ahead of... Know what you're going to eat during the day,
then I guess you could pick the actual answer, which is taking it around your fattiest meal,
is the answer for the best time of day to take it. The problem is a lot of us don't know what
that meal will be because we don't know what we're going to be eating later on in the day. I think
the most important time for most people, at least starting out with fish oil, is to take it when you
can remember to take it regularly. I tend to take mine shortly after I get to work. It's sitting
right there. That works great the days I'm at work and then I have to remember of course,
to take it on days that I'm home and not working, so that can be a little tricky.
If you are the type of person that takes all your pills in the morning and you want to
put it with the rest of them, go right ahead. Same thing with the end of the day.
But a lot of people don't like the taste of the fish coming back on them. If you
take it around your fattiest meal... I usually tell patients, "Just take it before you eat,
and then the food will push it down and hopefully push it through the stomach before it opens up and
starts repeating on you." Another good way to keep that fish burp from coming back up.
It sounds awful, I know. I'm sorry. But it's relevant. I usually tell patients,
"If that really bothers you put them in the refrigerator." Now,
putting them in the refrigerator makes you less apt to be able to remember to take them,
so again, you need to be able to remember to take them. By being in the refrigerator a little
bit harder, when you ingest them, they usually will pass through the stomach before they open
and thus not repeat on you. That's another good way of keeping that
fish taste from coming back at you. All right. At the beginning, I told you at the end
I would tell you how to pick a good fish oil. Here it is. I want you to spin the label
of the fish oil that you're looking at. Make sure it tells you in milligrams,
how many milligrams of EPA and DHA are in that fish oil. Then I want you to add them together,
and that number should be better than half of the serving size of the amount of fish oil
the manufacturer tells you to take. Let's say that you're looking at a serving size of 2000
milligrams of fish oil, which is what I would usually tell you to take,
and it has 700 milligrams of EPA, 500 milligrams of DHA, together, that's 1200 milligrams. When
you add those two together, which makes up about 60% of the $2,000 milligrams of fish oil. Yeah,
you might need a calculator. But that's it. If you spin that bottle around and you look
at the amount of EPA and DHA that's in it, and it doesn't tell you, put that back as
fast as you can. I'd rather have you not take that product than to take a product that is
just not going to do you any good. Find something that meets my standards. If you
like what I had to say, consider subscribing, hit that like button. Until next time, take care.