What are the best omega-3 supplements?

What are the best omega-3 supplements?

Along with Michael Pollan and a few others, David Katz is one of my points of reference when it comes to nutrition seriously. Dr. Katz (yes, I dare, he has this surname here which sounds a bit like that in Italian; but he is also handsome and intelligent) directs the Prevention Research Center at Yale University and chairs the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He has published countless articles, some of which are prominent regarding obesity and some major dilemmas that revolve around healthy eating. Like this one, on the integration of omega3 in the diet.

Given that omega-3 polyunsaturated fats   are essential health fats, Dr. Katz wonders in this article, along with a chemist expert in fatty acid metabolism, Professor Frits Muskiet of the University of Groningen, which are the best omega-3 supplements. in essence , especially following the attention that the Paleolithic diet has turned to a healthy and less industrial way of eating.
And above all taking into account the poverty of our Western diet: in this regard, Katz gives the example of meat. 
In fact, intensively farmed meat contains very few omega3 fatty acids (and many omega6), while the meat from grass breeding and finally that of wild animals is usually very rich. The indigenous peoples of rural areas far from the sea found their source of omega3 fatty acids in the consumption of wild animals (for example antelope).

Today, however, we have many options to supplement our diet with omega3, both from the food point of view and from the point of view of actual supplementation, i.e. from the use of supplements to support our diet.

However, it is precisely on the possible sources of omega3 fatty acids that we must focus : omega3-based supplements, being the same polyunsaturated fatty acids, therefore long-chain, are unstable fats, i.e. they tend to change over time and also depending on the storage conditions.
So, either you pay attention to supplements, choosing certified and high quality supplements, without seeking discounts, and worrying about how they have been stored and kept until they reach us (useless to keep them in the fridge if we completely ignore where they come from and how have been kept until the courier or the seller has deposited them in our holy hands), or the main road is the food one.

Katz identifies three possible omega3 supplements between diet and supplements

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