A: Fish oil supplements have numerous benefits over consuming fish directly. These benefits have been elaborated in this article.

Fish oil can be consumed by eating the fish directly or by drinking fish oil which is often available in the form of supplements such as tablets, capsules, pills, soft gels, etc. What are the benefits of fish oil supplements? Why not eat fish instead?

Fish may possibly contain harmful contaminations such as mercury, arsenic, lead, forms of calcium, furans, dioxins, PCBs, and methyl mercury. Hence consuming fish in large quantities may be harmful if the fish is contaminated. Many fish oil supplements, on the other hand, are prepared through advanced purification processes thus giving ultra refined fish oil or distilled fish oil, which are free of these toxic chemicals. (You should always check if the quality standards are adhered to by the manufacturer.)
Fish oil may also be rich in certain vitamins such as vitamin A and vitamin D. If you eat fish directly, you consume these vitamins which might lead to accumulation of these vitamins in your body. Many fish oil supplements tackle this problem by removing the excess vitamins at the processing stage.
Regular consumption of fish oil may lead to reduction of anti-oxidants such as vitamin E in the body. Certain fish oil supplements help you tackle this problem as they contain added vitamin E in them.
Sometimes, in severe cases, you require large dosage of fish oil for treatment. If you try in-taking the fish oil by eating fish, you will have to eat a lot of fish. Fish oil supplements provide you this convenience as they contain fish oil in a concentrated form. .
Fish oil supplements are very handy. If you want to consume fish oil daily, you just have to open up the jar, pick a tablet and gulp it. Cooking fish, on the other hand, daily becomes very cumbersome.
Further, you know the exact dosage of fish oil that you are consuming when you take it in the form of supplements.

A: A better question might be: "What DOESN'T fish oil do for you?"

Here's a list of just SOME of the benefits of omega 3 fish oil.

Promotes cardiovascular health, protects against heart attack & stroke.

Reduces inflammation, pain, promotes healthy joints.

Supports comprehension, focus, memory, neurotransmitter growth.

Supports positive mood, fights depression (and more).

Promotes eye health, visual acuity, color.

During pregnancy especially supports infant brain & eye development, lessens incidences of childhood disorders.

Promotes weight loss by optimizing fat metabolism

Lowers risk of cancers such as prostate, breast & colorectal.

Fish oil is being researched constantly around the world in order to find even more benefits it may provide.

To your health,
Tom

By nature, I’m not one to accept the status quo when it comes to health supplements and their respective claims (health supplements are largely unregulated) since my family and I use products such as these as well.So, as sort of a hobby, I enjoy playing the role of private investigator by digging up and researching all the information I can (pro and con) on vario... show bio