My old friend, Dr. Michael Klaper, recently released a video on the topic of DHA and brain health. His new video is an “update” to his DHA videos from 2019 and 2020. Even though there is no new research to support his position, Dr. Klaper’s recommendations for DHA supplementation are now the complete opposite of what he was advising people just a few years ago. Dr. Klaper also seems to have taken on a new enemy – the vegan diet.

Despite having passionately recommended it for people of all ages for well over 3 decades, he now describes a 100% plant-based diet without supplemental DHA as a potentially dangerous “experiment,” never before undertaken in human history. But the truth is this is not a controversial issue.

Dementia specialty organizations, composed of actual experts and researchers on dementia from across the globe – universally agree that neither DHA deficiency nor a vegan diet are risk factors for dementia. They also recommend against taking DHA supplements to prevent dementia.

Ironically, the dose of DHA supplement that Dr. Klaper is recommending to “protect the brain” (and the dose that is in Dr. Fuhrman’s DHA supplement) has basically no chance of actually getting to your brain. This was recently demonstrated by brain researchers at the Keck School of Medicine at USC. They used spinal taps to see how much DHA actually makes it into your brain when you take popular DHA supplements. The answer is – very likely zero. You can raise your blood levels, but that has no impact on your brain.

NOTE: update – Dr Klaper has a newer video explaining why he is not taking omega 3 supplements, and that the omega 3 test does not tell you anything about omega 3 levels in your brain, so it’s not a useful test. You can view his more recent video here:

   • Is The Omega 3 Index Telling Me What’…  

LINKS FROM VIDEO:

Dr. Klaper’s New Video on DHA (which my video today is about)    • Doctor Klaper, WFPB & Vegan Speaker: …  

Low Quality DHA study relied on by the Sherzais:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science…

Editorial highly critical of DHA study Sherzais cited:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science…

TICS-m Telephone Questionnaire Survey:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti…

Spinal Tap Brain-DHA study:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science…

Medscape article about same study, quoting senior author:

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/…

Dr. Fuhrman’s statement on dangers of too much DHA:

https://www.drfuhrman.com/blog/175/th… If

I’ve forgotten any links of interest, please post a comment and I will add.