Researchers tried maxing out omega-3s for brain health—here’s what happened.

A large-scale clinical trial has shown that even long-term consumption of DHA—an omega-3 fatty acid found in abundance in ...

It is widely believed that DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) is good for your brain, but how it is absorbed by the brain has been unknown. That is - until now. Researchers from Duke-NUS Graduate Medical ...

University of Kansas scientists have found that infants who were fed formula enriched with long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFA) from birth to 12 months scored significantly better than a ...

This release is available in Spanish. New recommendations published by international experts in the Journal of Perinatal Medicine state that infant formula should include DHA omega-3 and AA omega-6 to ...

A study of 229 infants shows that babies fed formula supplemented with docosahexaenoic acid -- an essential fatty acid found in breast milk -- have higher cognitive skills than babies fed regular ...

Reductions in EI following immunologic or infectious stimuli were associated with increases in IL-1β and TNFα. Those reductions were attenuated by breastfeeding, and mediated in part by tissue DHA.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The fatty acids DHA and ARA are credited with boosting the IQs of babies ...

Peruse the infant formula aisle, or check out the options for prenatal nutritional supplements, and you’ll find that nearly all these products boast a “brain nourishing” omega-3 fatty acid called DHA.

While the effect of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in infant formula on children's cognitive development may not always be evident on standardized developmental tasks at 18 months, significant ...