Happy June to all you Gaster Pod fans out there.

Thanks to our sponsor American Express,

we're bringing you some encore presentations

of our favorite episodes this month in between brand new episodes.

And first up, a look at one of America's most popular

supplements omega-3s enjoy and we'll be back in a week.

There's a little bit of a grueling thing. It's funny, I never went out on a jet ski as a younger person and I was I think 47 when I started on this book.

So it turns out riding a jet ski is not a lot of fun if you're 47.

The jet ski mounted hero of today's episode is 47 year old Paul Greenberg.

Well he's not 47 anymore that was when he started the book so he's a few years

past that now.

Like us all he's getting older and that actually is what led him to the topic of his book.

I did start this book, you know, in the throes of kind of a panic about middle age.

And when you Google all the things that are going wrong with you in middle age, your joints hurt,

blood pressure is going up, losing your memory, and you Google solutions for this, you know,

what comes up again and again are omega-3 supplements.

So it struck me as a way a lens for looking at the

omega-3 was to look at through the lens of the sort of panic that you get in

middle age around all these things. This episode is not about the panic. It's about the

omega-3s. In fact, Paul's book is called The Omega-Princeiple.

Omega-3s have come up in our reporting this year. You might remember we talked

about how important these fats are in our Alzheimer's

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