Dr. Rhonda Patrick

It's really hard to find all the right mixtures of things, but...

People can go to this website and they can browse through the products.

I personally think it is one of the most powerful.

anti-inflammatory dietary lifestyle, things that we can get easily that is going to powerfully modulate the way you think, the way you feel, and the way you age.

So there's been lots of work by Dr. Bill Harris and his collaborators looking at what it's called the omega-3 index.

So this is actually the omega-3 level in red blood cells.

So red blood cells turn over about every 120 days.

So it's a long-term marker of omega-3 status.

He's done a variety of studies, observational studies, measuring the omega-3 index in people and then looking at their mortality risk, for example, or their cardiovascular disease risk.

And what he has found is that most, first of all, standard American diet has omega-3 index of 5%.

Japan, by contrast, has an omega-3 index of around 10 to 11%.

Big difference there.

And they also have about a five-year increased life expectancy compared to people in the U.S.

What he showed in his data was that people that had a omega-3 index of 4% or lower, so close to what the standard American is, but a little bit lower, they had a five-year decreased life expectancy compared to people that had an 8% omega-3 index.

people that are in the 4% omega-3 index range, in order to get to the 8%, right, the five-year increased life expectancy if we're comparing the two groups, was to supplement with at least two grams.

It was about two grams a day.

And I think it was a little bit less if it was triglyceride form, but I think two grams is a good safe number.

So most Americans that are not eating a lot of fish and they're not supplementing are probably around a 4% to 5% omega-3 index.

The omega-3 index is actually in the red blood cells and red blood cells take 120 days to turn over.

So if you're going to do a baseline test, if you want to know before supplementing what your level is, you have to wait 120 days before doing the second test after supplementing to know how much you went up because that's how long it takes for your red blood cell to turn over.