{"id":239747,"date":"2025-07-05T09:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T09:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/239747\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T09:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T09:28:13","slug":"doctors-warning-to-anyone-who-takes-omega-3-pills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/239747\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor&#8217;s warning to anyone who takes omega-3 pills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Federica Amati has warned about the potential risks of using supplements<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1_Womans-hand-holding-fish-oil-supplements-on-white-background.jpg\" alt=\"Woman's hand holding fish oil supplements\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Omega-3 is one of the most common supplements(Image: Evgeniia Siiankovskaia via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Dr Federica Amati, chief nutrition scientist at Zoe Health, has issued a warning to people who take omega-3 supplements. Earlier this year, the expert joined <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/davina-mccall\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Davina McCall<\/a> on her Begin Again podcast, where she spoke about the pitfalls she sees with people who take <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/vitamins\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">vitamins<\/a> and nutrients in pill form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">During the chat, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/health\/dr-federica-amati-says-2-34797990\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Amati<\/a> shared her concerns and said: &#8220;Taking a supplement is easier than changing your diet&#8230; People take supplements and then they think &#8216;okay, I&#8217;ve done my bit&#8217;.&#8221; She added that many continue with unhealthy habits like poor diets, excessive drinking, lack of sleep, and inactive lifestyles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Dr Amati continued: &#8220;That supplement, in the grand scheme of things, is going to have a very marginal effect on your health.&#8221; Her comments come as recent figures show almost half of UK adults regularly take supplements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The expert also recommends getting nutrients from food over pills, highlighting the difference with omega-3 intake. The doctor pointed to a &#8220;really good long-running clinical trial&#8221; that looked into whether omega-3 supplements deliver on their health promises, such as cutting down risks of cancers, heart disease, and mortality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">She concluded: &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t do it. It doesn&#8217;t do it in the same way that eating fish does.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Omega-3 fatty acids have an abundance of benefits, including supporting heart health, improving dry skin and eyes, lowering inflammation in the body. The <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/nhs\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">NHS<\/a> adds that omega-3s are &#8220;also important for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, because it can help a baby&#8217;s nervous system to develop&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Health chiefs recommend you eat &#8220;at least two portions of fish a week, including one of oily fish&#8221;. If you don&#8217;t like seafood, other omega-3 sources include flaxseed, chia seeds, walnuts, soybeans, and spinach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Federica Amati has warned about the potential risks of using supplementsOmega-3 is one of the most common&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4318],"tags":[27827,105,302,4434,16,15,6585],"class_list":{"0":"post-239747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-davina-mccall","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-heart-disease","11":"tag-nutrition","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-vitamins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114799922747749853","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}