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Tuesday 13th May 2008 |
Depression, Schizophrenia, Bi-Polar Disorder and Omega 3 OilA diet high in Omega 3 oil can help those suffering from depression. Research published in The Lancet in 1998 showed that countries whose populations consume large amounts of oily fish had low rates of depression. Conversely, countries where people did not eat a lot of fish had significantly higher rates of depression. It has been recorded that depression is 60 times higher in New Zealand, where the average consumption of seafood is 40 pounds a year compared with Japan, where a person consumes nearly 150 pounds of seafood annually. In February 2004, on the popular BBC Radio 4 programme 'All In The Mind', Dr Alex Richardson, Senior Research Fellow at the University Laboratory of Physiology and Mansfield College Oxford, spoke in favour of Omega 3 EPA supplements to Dr. Raj Persaud. In the interview Dr. Richardson told of her own study in which a young schizophrenic patient, who refused conventional medication, was practically symptom free after only 2 months of taking Omega 3 supplements. Both doctors agreed that this was 'quite remarkable'. Dr. Andrew Stoll of McLean Hospital Belmont, Massachusetts, conducted a study that focused specifically on patients with bipolar disorder (manic depression). Half of the subjects were given fish oil tablets and the other half were given a placebo. Dr. Stoll reported that after four months, 'half of the placebo cases had already relapsed into depression, where as only two out of the fifteen fish-oil patients had gotten sick, and that was a huge difference'. The trial was originally planned to run for nine months, but stopped after four due to the remarkable results. In 2003, an American study tracking 14,541 women from their eighth week of pregnancy to eight months after giving birth, found those who had no seafood (rich in Omega 3) had nearly twice the rate of depression as those who ate 10 ounces of fish daily, leading the authors to conclude that 'Omega-3 fatty acids have beneficial health effects with no adverse side effects.' |
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