J.T. is a 66-year-old man with heart disease who requires blood thinners to reduce the chance of having another stroke. The last stroke was luckily a mild one, but he was found to have significant plaque buildup in his cardiac vessels. J.T. is a very bright, successful, hard-working man and wants to stay as healthy as possible. The ads he kept seeing and articles he read said omega-3 fatty acids were a great way to help reduce the bad cholesterol and minimize plaque in his arteries. If one pill was good, then three would be better, or so he thought. Several weeks later, he showed up in the emergency room with stomach pains and vomiting blood. His blood-clotting time was found to be too long and he has a peptic ulcer. The doctors were at first baffled, but soon realized that J.T. was taking 3 grams of the omega fatty …