Fish oil supplements are a multi-billion dollar market, being one of the more popular supplements, around 2 out of every 25 people are believed to be taking some form of omega-3 supplement.
The results from this study of over 441,000 participants published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that this simple supplement may help you to override your genetic programming; finding that omega-3 supplements help to reduce the genetic risk of high total cholesterol, LDL, and triglyceride levels.
“Recent advances in genetic studies have allowed us to predict someone’s genetic risk of high cholesterol,” explains Yitang Sun, lead author and recent doctoral graduate from UGA’s Department of Genetics, in a statement. “But the current prediction has room for improvement because it does not consider individual differences in lifestyles, such as taking fish oil supplements.”
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