#097 All About Omega 3s & Testing + Is Taking Omega 3s in Pregnancy a Big Deal Part 1 with Dr. Kristina Harris Jackson, PhD, RD

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Dry skin, joint pains every now and then, irritating dry eyes on top of feeling fatigued everyday?

Sounds about right?

Welp, you might just need to boost your Omega 3 intake.  

In part one of this two-part episode of the Less Stressed life podcast, Dr. Kristina Harris, a registered dietician and research associate at Omega Quant, talks about Omega 3s and touches on some interesting research on DHA and EPA. 

Her Key Takeaways:

[05:08] The Omega 3 family

[08:06] Why Omega 3 from animal proteins are better for the human body

[09:29] Symptoms of having Omega-3 deficiency

[22:36] Why you should get an Omega-3 Index Test

Other topics she touched on in this episode:

• Benefits of Omega 3 to avoid heart disease
• Essentials of DHA for baby's eye and brain development
• DHA benefit in terms of baby's IQ
• The role of Omega 3 in carrying a baby to full term
• Why research is more focused on DHA than EPA?
• Effect of having high Omega-3 on pregnant women

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Dr. Kristina Harris Jackson received her Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences from Pennsylvania State University in 2013 and completed her training to become a Registered Dietitian in 2014. As a graduate student, she studied under Dr. Penny Kris-Etherton, an internationally-recognized expert in fats and nutrition. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado-Denver under Dr. John Peters in the area of worksite wellness before returning to the omega-3 field. Kristina joined the family business OmegaQuant Analytics in 2014, with a particular focus on omega-3s in maternal health, helping create the Prenatal DHA test and the Mother’s Milk DHA test.

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