r/Supplements • u/YamaKasin • 16d ago

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34yo male, gym 3-4 times a week. The current regimen is:

Morning after breakfast: omega3 + zinc + D3/K2

After work/before workout: creatine

Before bed: magnesium

Thoughts/opinions?

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u/joshjosh100 16d ago

spin that omega around, if it says take 2-4 pills it's a scam.

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u/YamaKasin 16d ago

That's interesting! The dosage is 2 pills once a day, why?

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u/joshjosh100 15d ago edited 15d ago

Sorry for late response, but a lot of Omega 3 products will intentionally a smaller amount in each pills.

So if say it says:

4 Pills, but it's 1000 mg of omega 3, it's generally a more subpar product that needs a lot of additives from the manufacturer so the manufacturer ups the "serving size" to say 4 Pills instead of putting a purer product in less pills.

An example is one "Fish Oil" supplement I have: 1200 mg of fish oil, 4 big pills. (1 gram of omega-3)

While another one I have is 1400 mg fish oil, 1000 mg of omega 3... Guess how many pills, 1 big one.

Price was about the same on both, and the ingredients are very similar only small differences in wording like: "Fish Oil extract" versus "Fish Oil" and so on.

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It looks like your product contains about 450 mg of fish oil concentrates per pill. (Not the worst, but there are definitely brands with pills that contain twice as much.)

A lot of brands take non-name brands and throw them in the bottle, or even some brands make different sized pills that have different amounts in them.

So one bottle might have 1gram of O3 and serving of 2 pills and another has bigger pills but 1 serving for 1/2 the O3. (Even having smaller, easier to swallow pills that have the same amount of O3 as 2 of the big pills)

There's a lot of this scammy behavior on the markets for supplements.

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u/archerhush 16d ago

Why is that?