Nordic Naturals Dha Formula From Purified Fish Oil (Strawberry, 500mg, 180 73591)

Very healthy

These are the way to go. I save them for last in my nightly prenatal med rounds because they have a nice, light strawberry taste. In the first trimester when I was feeling GROSS I bought these even though I had been given the unflavored ones for free LOL. The extra cost is so worth it and I never went back to the plain ones.

I started this after reading that DHA can help with cognitive decline during perimenopause and menopause. I was already taking some DHA, with an EPA dominant blend (also by Nordic Naturals)--like the regular Omega 3 supplement--and doubted I'd notice much difference with this DHA-dominant blend. Wow I was wrong. It's like brain juice. Even though it isn't much higher mg-wise than what I was getting from 4 of the regular Omega 3s, the formula feels more intense. I am able to focus for long periods of time again, very important to my work as a writer and professor, and my anxiety has gone down. I have a very sensitive system and am able to take 2 without problems.

On the ingredients label, it states they added D-Alpha Tocopherol, which is the cheapest form of vitamin E. BUT they did not state the specific amount on the label! I've been doing the keto diet, which reduces your body fat rapidly. This leaves less room for fat soluble vitamins to be stored. Which causes those fat soluble vitamins to take shelter in many different places in your body. I went to the emergency room for stomach pains, they couldn't figure out what was wrong with me and had me drink lidocaine (liquid cocaine) to numb my stomach, and sent me home. The Utah ER just tries to treat you, not figure out how to diagnose you. They even gave me a pamphlet that said it might be h.pylori, instead of doing a simple test to determine if it was. I went out to figure out how to cure h.pylori, bought lots of stuff on amazon to kill it off. Then I went to my primary practitioner who told me h.pylori was rare. I made him test me for it and it was negative. He checked my blood for several common factors, including vitamin D. He sent me a letter stating my vitamin D was too high. Then the realization hit me. I had too many fat soluble vitamins in my system. Vitamin A toxicity had all my symptoms, including tiredness, bloody nose, body aches. I stopped taking the vitamin D and vitamin A, but I kept having toxicity problems. When I ate lettuce, I would have nose bleeds later that night. I had to get educated and get incredibly picky. I was already taking a vitamin A and vitamin E supplement, but I had stopped taking the vitamin E for the better part of a year. I read the label on the salad packs, which demonstrated that lettuce had a fair amount of both vitamin A and Vitamin K in them. Both of which are fat soluble vitamins. I figured out that the only way to get rid of fat soluble vitamins was for your body to dump it back into your intestines where fiber would absorb it. Otherwise, the body would recycle the fat soluble vitamins back into your system. Since I was eating no fiber on the keto diet, I had to find a "no added sugar" fiber supplement (sugar free Metamucil). Taking that every night or morning, well away from my fatty coffee, seemed to finally improve my condition. Prior, I went 3 months without any improvements, due to having no non-soluble fiber in my system for the excess A and E to be disposed of towards. My body was just recycling the vitamin A and E over and over again. I continued taking this Omega 3 supplement daily, with my fatty coffee (butter and coconut oil). One day I decided that I hadn't taken any vitamin E in about a year, so I took a specific vitamin E supplement that morning and got a nose bleed that night. I took it again the next day, and my bones started aching again. I took it a third time on the fifth day which caused further pains again, and I realized that I had too much vitamin E, but couldn't figure out why three doses would cause me sudden issues. I decided I better check my omega 3 fatty acid supplement, but instead of having vitamin A on its label, it had added vitamin E on its label?! Now... I had learned that often fish oil supplements have vitamin A unlisted to its label, but I had no idea that it would have added vitamin E in addition! Now... my problem with this product is that it does not state how much vitamin E was added in it. And its the law they have to state how much vitamin A is in it. I've seen some health and fitness personnel state that you should take as many as 7 grams of fish oil daily! Imagine if I had done that with this supplement and it causing a severe toxicity over several months/years! Some supplements such as Uridine and Sulbutiamine are known to be more beneficial with omega-3 DHA, which is the only reason why I was taking this omega-3 supplement. To avoid the overdosing of vitamin A, I had avoided regular fish oil supplements and wanted something more refined, which this product seemed to be (but later I realized it wasn't). I didn't realize this company added extra fat soluble vitamins without stating the exact amount on the label. I was trying to figure out where I was getting too many fat soluble vitamins from, and decided I better play it safe and stop taking everything that was questionable. I really didn't think this product would be a problem, but it turns out it was part of the cause. And for about 4 months I took it while trying to detoxify the excess fat soluble vitamins. Later I realized taking this omega 3 supplement was a mistake and stopped. To detoxify from the toxicity of vitamin A and E, I literally used Metamucil, but that wasn't enough. I also noticed that eating carbs and sugary foods caused the toxicity pains to go away temporarily, because carbs and sugar cause insulin spikes which cause the liver to create fat from the glucose and store the excess glucose as human body fat. This body fat creation from glucose relieved the pains from fat soluble vitamin toxicity temporarily by giving the excess fat soluble vitamins a place to hide. Now, don't get me wrong... I also took vitamin D, vitamin K2-M4, and calcium citrate to counter the ill effects of vitamin A and E toxicity. Where vitamin A toxicity starts to cause calcium loss from your bones, and I was having severe bone pains and passed a kidney stone as a demonstration of calcium loss. Although the kidney stone's calcium was yanked back into my body due to the vitamin D. I passed a weird hair like structure which took about a week to pass through my urethra. It was not pleasant cause it got stuck sideways towards the end. The stomach pains were gone by this point. But my forearms ached when I would try to lay down to sleep, and my back bones hurt to the point I couldn't sit for very long during the day. This may have started to progress to bone swelling, of which I have no idea. I believe that the excess A and E were hiding in my bone marrow at this point, which is a fatty substance. But the vitamin D seemed to dominate over and force the A and E back into hiding, and relieved the painful symptoms, and pulled the calcium into my body from the dietary tract, and the vitamin K2-M4 pushed the calcium back into the proper places for calcium to go, such as my bones. This is going to take a long time to slowly get rid of the aches and pains from vitamin A and E. Now, on the side note that the corporation replies to me stating they only added a relatively small amount... how am I supposed to supplement when it is not on the label the specific amount?! Also, I would rather take D-Gama Tocopherol or a balanced mix of the tocopherols, but when they purposely shove the lowest common grade tocopherol (Alpha) into a supplement, even if by soy, then it stops me from choosing which tocopherol I actually wanted in my diet!

Soft gels that are not part of a giant clump stuck in the bottle are warped and don't look like the previous bottle. Return window is closed since the bottle wasn't opened until needed. Update : The product was upheld and I was given a refund for the funky batch.

I absolutely love this supplement! I started taking this a few years ago after my second was born because I was having a lot of trouble thinking. I think my DHA stores were majorly depleted from pregnancy and breastfeeding. I could not even finish a sentence without forgetting words! For someone that is normally very sharp mentally, this was extremely frustrating and embarrassing. It was so bad I was worried I was in early Alzheimer's or something. Well after a few weeks of taking this, I saw 100% improvement! I felt smart again! Lol. I was able to win arguments with my husband again (lol but really!), and my short term memory improved so much! I am now breastfeeding my 4th child and have taken this throughout two pregnancies, and am happy to say my brain is still sharp. Also my two babies that I took this through their pregnancies have been very advanced mentally, and extra smart. My 3 yo was saying clear words by 6 mo, and talking in sentences by a year! My 4 mo says "hey" already. I credit talking to them all the time even as newborns, and this stuff! (Obviously getting it through the placenta, then breastmilk, not straight giving it to them, lol)