Dr. Bill Harris on the Omega-3 Index: Increasing Omega-3 to Promote Longevity & Transform Health

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters point to it as a researcher-led answer on omega-3 dosing, with the takeaway that most people take too little.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

FoundMyFitness

Topic

omega-3 and health

Format

interview

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2022–2022

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From the original HN conversations

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• Before people get all excited... Prescription strength EPA can cause heart arrhythmia once you start crawling above 4g a day. No idea if it can happen at doses lower. [LINK] I still think 1G-2G of fish oil, with more of a lean to EPA, is …

• I learned a lot here, but I'm not able to restitute it accurately now: [Dr. Bill Harris on the Omega-3 Index: Increasing Omega-3 to Promote Longevity & Transform Health ]( [VIDEO] ). From this and other sources, I can summarize an answer as this: omega-3s …

• The NMN research didn't pan out in the end, just throwing that out here. There is something involved in NMN, but taking it (or any of the precursors or metabolites) alone doesn't actually seem to reliably cause what they were looking for. Most likely, it's …