Is there anything DHA can’t do?
It supports eye health,1 maintains healthy nerve tissue and normal inflammatory response.
Your brain uses DHA to stay sharp and accurate. People with higher levels of DHA have more plasticity, which means they can learn faster and retain memories more easily. DHA also boosts a protein in your brain that enhances learning and recall.2
DHA maintains heart-healthy levels of protective HDL cholesterol, which helps keep your heart strong.3
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I’ve been taking calamari and krill oil as well as prescribing it to my patients and the benefits have been incredible… |
DHA also helps ease joint discomfort and helps soothe aches to let you stay mobile and move with ease.
We now have an excellent source that has a lot more DHA than fish oil, can easily pass through the blood-brain barrier, and is also better absorbed by heart cells than fish oil.
Part of the power of this new source of DHA is krill oil, which has much more power or bioavailability than fish oil.
But, krill is not the only excellent source of DHA. Calamari or “squid” oil is also a potent source.
The problem has always been, how do you get the calamari oil? Even if you eat calamari you’re not getting very high concentrations of oil… and it’s usually fried.
So we’ve been struggling for some time with how to get this high DHA from squid oil.
Now we’ve solved that. I’ve found a unique Squid that lives off the coast of South America in the pure waters of the Southern Pacific (ilex argentinus). After the oil is distilled it’s over 65% DHA4 – the highest concentration of DHA I’ve found yet.
And we can make it even more penetrable by mixing it with krill oil, which is the best-absorbed DHA. I found a study that backs this up. It was published in the journal Nutrition Research and it compared fish oil, krill oil and olive oil to see which one’s omega-3s would be better absorbed.
They randomly assigned 76 people to get one of the three, and then looked at the results after 4 weeks. The people taking olive oil had a 2.9% increase in omega-3. The people taking krill oil had their omega-3s skyrocket by 178%.5
No one else is doing this but we’ve combined squid and krill oil to get DHA into every cell in your body to help your heart and brain.
In fact I just thought of this, but isn’t the wisdom of nature interesting… these two sources of DHA, krill and squid, are both food for some of the smartest ocean mammals.
You and I can’t exactly eat krill and squid like they can, though. Not that you’d want to anyway.
That’s what makes calamari and krill oil so special. The DHA penetrates where regular omega-3s from other sources can’t get to. With calamari and krill oil, you can flood every cell in your body with the world’s most penetrating omega-3 and get all its brain and heart support.
However, you should know that other “krill” products out there don’t combine squid oil with krill. Many mass-manufacturers out there cut corners and don’t tell you the whole story. I don’t want to say any more about it than that, here in this letter. The truth is, the more I say to you, the more they will “borrow.”
1. Frederik J et al, “Fatty acid composition of the human macula and peripheral retina.” Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1992
2. Yamada et al. “Role for Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in Learning and Memory.” Life Sciences. 2002. 70(7):735-744.
3. Bernstein A, Ding E, Willett W, Rimm E. “A meta-analysis shows that DHA… increases HDL… in persons without coronary heart disease.” J Nutr. 2012;142(1):99-104.
4. Hwang L, Liang J. “Fractionation of urea-pretreated squid visceral oil ethyl esters.” Journal of the American Oil Chemists’ Society 2001, Volume 78, Issue 5, pp 473-476.
5. Maki K, Reeves M, Farmer M, Griinari M, Berge K, Vik H, Hubacher R, Rains T. “Krill oil supplementation increases plasma concentrations of EPA and DHA in overweight and obese men and women.” Nutr Res. 2009;29(9):609-15.