I would recommend it to elderly family members, but they have atrial fibrillation, and I heard omega 3 can exacerbate it?

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staticassertion 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's seemingly dose dependent. Low omega 3 can seems to have the same mechanistic effect. As for what the dose should be? No clue, personally, and it depends on your heavily diet since even one fishy meal could provide as much as most supplements do. Personally, I don't eat much fish, so I'm comfortable with a supplement. If I ate even one piece of salmon in a day I'd skip the supplement that day.

If I had afib I'd talk to a doctor about it before taking it and probably would stay well under 1G on any day I don't eat fish and skip it entirely on a day that I do.

Not a dr, not a health professional, not anyone you should listen to perhaps at all, but this is my understanding.

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unsupp0rted 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> If I had afib I'd talk to a doctor about it before taking it

Doctors err on the side of "I read a note that said omega 3 = bad for afib" and stop thinking from that point onward.

	▲	staticassertion 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, Doctors are humans and humans are mostly annoying and lazy. You'll have to search around for a good one, as with all people.

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KempyKolibri 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There’s a good pod on this exact subject with nutrition scientists: https://sigmanutrition.com/episode538/

The TL;DR (IIRC) is that we tend to only see this in trials where atrial fib is a tertiary endpoint so there’s not really compelling data to suggest AF is a risk.

But give it a listen and see what you think, it was a while ago I listened to it and I’m not qualified to give actual advice!