Omega 3 how to take it

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Registered: 12-02-2004
Omega 3 how to take it
Sun, 03-20-2005 - 9:30pm
hello- Im not new here but I almost never post- just hoping someone could answer my questions or direct me to somehwere that could -
I am searching for information on Omega 3 supplements- I have depression and anxiety and have been diagnosed possible bipolar, I feel like I am either obssesing about death or I am really happy- its not a day to day thing ,its month to month, and gets worse in the winter- either way I have major depressive issues and I dont want to take medication, acutally I refuse to even see a doctor who tries to force it on me(I have a MAJOR phobia of medicine and pills and am having anxiety that I overdosed on salmon oil pills cause I took 4 instead of the 2 it says to take - I only took for because thats the dosage I read about that worked on bipolar paitents))- anyway....so I have 2 great doctors now who know nothing about the Omega 3 studies, just wondering 2 major things can you overdose on salomn oil suppliments- its says to take 3-10 grams of the omega 3 oils in the suppliment, which means I have to take no less that 8 pills a day!! since for 2 pills there is 400 mg of omega 3s - I just want to know if this is right! and 2 I have read about how you need more of the EPA than the DHA - thats the way to take it because the EPA helps give you energy while the DHA helps calm mania, anyway I just want to know if one kind of suppliment is better than another and if anyone has any expierence with this