In 2020, a routine check-up threw us a surprise. Despite being young and healthy, Prateek’s cholesterol levels were higher than expected for someone his age. To make things worse, we discovered we both were at a higher risk for cardiovascular diseases due to family history.
Add that to everything else going on in 2020 and our health became our top priority. So we optimized our diets and ramped up our exercise. But despite living a “picture perfect” healthy lifestyle, it still wasn’t enough.
Our doctors recommended fish oil supplements. Being vegetarians, we weren't too excited about the idea of gulping down capsules of oil harvested from captive fish. We didn't feel like it was fair that we had to choose between our health and our morals.