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Assessing The Health Benefits Of Omega-3 | The Diane Rehm Show from WAMU and NPR

Assessing The Health Benefits Of Omega-3 | The Diane Rehm Show from WAMU and NPR.

 

Echinacea, left, fish oil, center, and glucosamine bottles and pills are shown in San Francisco, Thursday, July 30, 2009. Americans spend more than a 10th of their out-of-pocket health care dollars on alternative medicine, according to the first national estimate of such spending in more than a decade. - (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Echinacea, left, fish oil, center, and glucosamine bottles and pills are shown in San Francisco, Thursday, July 30, 2009. Americans spend more than a 10th of their out-of-pocket health care dollars on alternative medicine, according to the first national estimate of such spending in more than a decade.

(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Omega-3 fish oil supplements are widely thought to help prevent a variety of ailments including heart disease, Alzheimer’s and depression: Assessing the health benefits of an Omega-3 rich diet.

Guests

Dr. Majid Fotuhi

chair of the Neurology Institute for Brain Health and Fitness, and assistant professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Paul Coates

director of the Office of Dietary Supplements at National Institutes of Health.

Thomas Sherman

associate professor of pharmacology at Georgetown University Medical Center.

Susan Allport

journalist and author of “The Queen of Fats”

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