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Re:Depression is an inflammatory disease; where does inflamm... by dllthomas on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @02:25PM (#7307005)
"The body can convert ALA to EPA and DHA, but the conversion process is extremely inefficient (something like only 5% get converted."

Interesting. I wonder if that would be practical to do synthetically.

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Re:Depression is an inflammatory disease; where does inflamm... by hershel on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @02:37PM (#7307090)
There are companies working on growing omega-3 using algae.
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Re:Depression is an inflammatory disease; where does inflamm... by diogenescynic on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @02:50PM (#7307191)
It's already being done. Horizon organic milk has DHA and Omega-3 added from algae products. "While some DHA is derived from fish, we use only plant-based, water-extracted DHA": http://www.horizondairy.com/products/milk-plus-dha-omega-3/w...
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Re:Depression is an inflammatory disease; where does inflamm... by tostitos1979 on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @07:20PM (#7309336)
I have a fish allergy that makes me a bit nervous to take fish oil. I tried fax seed and stopped after reading about its ineffectiveness. How much milk should I be drinking for the Omega-3 benefits?

Edit: let me be specific. According to the web, each serving of this milk contains 32mg DHA Omega-3. The fish oil recommendation seems to be 3 grams of fish oil. How do these equate?

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Re:Depression is an inflammatory disease; where does inflamm... by WalterSear on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @02:58PM (#7307243)
You have been able to buy it at fancy health food stores for several years now.
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Re:Depression is an inflammatory disease; where does inflamm... by chc on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @09:35PM (#7309950)
You can already buy several different kinds of algae-derived omega-3 DHA supplements on Amazon. But the best deal there is Ovega-3, which at $0.29 per pill is about twice as expensive as fish oil.
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