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Comment author: jimmy 21 April 2009 04:56:29PM 0 points [-]

Thanks for the info.

I was planning on trying it without the choline first to see if it was really needed.

Any ideas on how to actually test performance?

Comment author: badger 21 April 2009 07:57:06PM 4 points [-]

Seth Roberts tracked the influence of omega-3 on brain function via arithmetic tests in R:

http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/01/05/tracking-how-well-my-brain-is-working/ http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/04/14/omega-3-and-arithmetic-continued/

It's a little hard to distinguish the benefit from practice and the benefit from omega-3, so ideally you'd alternate periods of supplement and no supplement.

Comment author: Desrtopa 13 April 2011 03:27:21PM 2 points [-]

Also, ideally you wouldn't know when you were getting omega-3 and when you were getting a placebo during the course of the experiment.