Background: I am 44, ok 45 in about a week, generally eat well (I love to cook so we rarely eat out and we eat pretty healthy), get regular exercise, am peri-menepausal with anger and night sweat problems and for the 1st time ever, my skin is having a very hard time with the dry winter notwithstanding the oodles of lotions, creams, baby oil and aloe vera applications it is getting. So, I have decided it is time to start taking fish oil and flax seed supplements. For now, I have the flax oil caps, but will probably buy the milled seed to work into our food and use the caps mostly for the days the seed does not get added.

For the oils, both recommend 1-3 per day and I have heard that 3 is best. But do I really want to be taking 3 each of BOTH the flax and fish oils? And when I start adding the seed, how much vs. the fish oil caps? I don't want to overdue it. My cooking does involve regular, indeed frequent, use of olive oil.