Blood omega-3 fatty acids and death from COVID-19: A Pilot Study
medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.06.21249354;
4% death rate if Omega-3 index >5.7
17% death rate if Omega-3 index <5.7
Comments by Vitamin D Life
- A company making Omega-3 Index tests and products is in the same city as 2 of the authors
- Good Omega-3 indexes have been associated with many forms of good health
- especially low levels of inflammation
- Increasing the Omega-3 intake increases Omega-3 index in a few months
- Sometimes the Omega-6 intake must also be reduced
- Note: The Omega-3 index is a ratio of Omega-3 to Omega-6
- Omega-3 is far more expensive than Vitamin D, which also decreases COVID-19 deaths
- For many health problems, Omega-3 and Vitamin D work synergistically
- It is anticipated that the combination will be synergistic with COVID-19 as well
- Vitamin D and Omega-3 category listing has
332 items along with related searches - Clinical trials for Omega-3 and COVID19 #1, #2 #3 Omega-3 nasal spray as of Jan 12 2021
- Items in both categories Virus and Omega-3 are listed here:
Magnesium
- Magnesium, similar to Omega-3, is synergistic with Vitamin D and may also help fight COVID-19
- Vitamin D and Magnesium category listing has
48 items along with related searches - Items in both categories Virus and Magnesium are listed here:
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Optimal levels speculation
- <10% of the population have an optimal level of Vitamin D or Omega-3 or Magnesium
- < 2% of the population have optimal levels of all three
- It appears difficult to have an optimal level in one of the nutrients without having at least an OK level in the other two
Fun Fact - Olympics committee has declared that supplementing with Vitamin D and Omega-3 is useful and is not "doping"
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Arash Asher, Nathan L. Tintle2,3, Michael Myers4, Laura Lockshon1, Heribert Bacareza5, and William S. Harris,6 wsh at faresinst.com
1Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
2Fatty Acid Research Institute, Sioux Falls, SD
3Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dordt University, Sioux Center, IA
4Los Alamitos Medical Center, Los Alamitos, CA
5Department of Medical Affairs, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
6Department of Internal Medicine, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SDVery-long chain omega-3 fatty acids (EPA and DHA) have anti-inflammatory properties that may help reduce morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 infection. We conducted a pilot study in 100 patients to test the hypothesis that RBC EPA+DHA levels (the Omega-3 Index, O3I) would be inversely associated with risk for death by analyzing the O3I in banked blood samples drawn at hospital admission. To have adequate power (>80%) in this pilot study, we pre-specified a significance level of 0.10. Fourteen patients died, one of 25 in quartile 4 (Q4) (O3I >5.7%) and 13 of 75 in Q1-3. After adjusting for age and sex, the odds ratio for death in patients with an O3I in Q4 vs Q1-3 was 0.25, p=0.07. Thus, we have suggestive evidence that the risk for death from COVID-19 was lower in those with the highest O3I levels. These preliminary findings need to be confirmed in larger studies.
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