Brigid TitgemeierBeingBrigid Functional Nutrition · Transforming Women's Health Using Food as Medicine

Your Omega-3 Index Could Reveal Hidden Inflammation

27 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this educational segment, Brigid Titgemeier explains why the omega‑3 index is a powerful nutritional biomarker for hidden inflammation. She states that a higher omega‑3 index correlates with lower inflammation risk and recommends aiming for a therapeutic reference range of 8–12%. Drawing on over 12 years of clinical practice and thousands of tests, she illustrates how dietary changes—whether through food choices or omega‑3 supplementation—can rapidly shift a person’s fatty‑acid composition, providing a clear example of "food as medicine" in action.

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Knowing your omega-3 index is super important for understanding your inflammation. It's one of the strongest predictors from a nutrient standpoint of higher risk of inflammation. So you wanna look at an omega-3 index and target an 8 to 12% for being in that therapeutic reference range. It is crazy because I have run thousands of these tests over the last 12 years of being in practice and being able to see a person change their diet and then see a noticeable increase in their omega-3 fatty acid index DEX is such a powerful example of using food as medicine, changing your diet, increasing maybe supplements for omega-3s if you end up being low, and then seeing in a very quick period of time how you can see a change in your fatty acid composition of your omega-3 fats. It's crazy.