The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marksissons and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

The Definitive Guide to Fish Oils

I was actually a little surprised that we hadn't already done a definitive guide to fish oil when a worker bee suggested it to me.

We've mentioned it enough, and it's a hot enough topic that I just assumed we'd done a big, comprehensive guide to the stuff.

But as my staff so eagerly likes to inform me, I was completely, utterly wrong.

Enjoy it now, because it won't happen again any time soon.

A quick look at the archives revealed that we actually had compiled enough content

to make a definitive guide. We just had it spread out over several

wide-ranging posts from various dates. But that's not to suggest the following is just a rehash of old content.

Rather, I've pulled it all up, cobbled it all together, and topped it off with some entirely

new stuff. The result, I think, should be pretty definitive.

Why fish oil? Okay. Everyone, even the peddlers of conventional wisdom, low-fat proponents like

D. Nornish and certain vegetarians, agrees that getting enough fish-based omega-3 fatty acids in our diets

is good for us.

In fact, the importance of dietary fish oil just might be the only point where I don't

butt heads with, well, almost everyone else.

Still, though recommending a fish oil supplement is generally safe for anyone,

it's important to understand why fish oil is so beneficial. So, why should we take it as part

of a primal lifestyle? It all comes down to omega-6-Omega-3 balance. You can't talk about fish oil without getting into the omega-3

fatty acids, and discussing omega-3 fatty acids is useless without understanding their relation

to the omega-6s. We've mentioned this relationship multiple times before, but I'll reiterate it.

A one-to-one omega-6 to omega-3 dietary ratio

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