When it comes to maintaining good bone, cartilage and joint health throughout your life, nutritional factors play a key role. Polyunsaturated fatty acids, also known as PUFA’s, is a term for Omega-3s, which are essential fatty acids. These PUFA’s are considered essential fatty acids because not only are they required by your body to function, but your body cannot produce them on its own so we must obtain them through dietary sources.

Many of our patients have been asking about krill oil lately, and since I didn’t really know how good or bad it was, I did a little search for information. What I found was really quite revealing. Manufacturers of krill oil have made many claims as to the efficacy of krill oil over fish oil. Here are a few of the claims and what I found.

Recently, Dr. Oz was questioned about his thoughts on the articles and advertisements claiming that you should “Toss your omega-3 capsules”. Dr. Oz takes a stand on a new—and as he explains, somewhat flawed report that is raising doubts about the heart protection benefits of fish oil.

A new study from Australia claims that Increased Levels of the Omega-3 DHA may be associated with improved literacy in children with learning disabilities. According to the study published in Nutrition, those children with higher levels of DHA in red blood cells had improved word reading and spelling.