Anyone using Fish Oil ??
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If so, how much and what else, if anything, are you taking with it ?
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They are doing studies just now in both America and Great Britain on the fish oil EPA and having great results with it, lifting the mood for severely depressed persons. The individuals are also on anti depressants as well. I have started taking it and take 3 capsules a day, to early too tell if it is working.
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> They are doing studies just now in both America and Great Britain on the > fish oil EPA and having great results with it, lifting the mood for severely > depressed persons. The individuals are also on anti depressants as well. > I have started taking it and take 3 capsules a day, to early too tell if it > is working. > If so, how much and what else, if anything, are you taking with it ?
From the book I have read, you need much more than 3 capsules a day. It says starting amounts range from 1.5-4 grams of EPA (Thats 8-22) of most fish oil capsules. The author used as much as 6.2 grams of EPA (34 Capsules) I have been going with about 8-10 capsules and have lowered my Celexa dosage a good bit. So far, so good. Here is a recent cut & paste. Interestingly that they stopped the study early because the results were so dramatic. "the Health & Science column of the SF Chronicle last night had an artic;e"l ‘STUDY SHOWS FISH OIL CURBS DEPRESSION. Got it in front of me; will bullet the salient points. – Omega 3 acids, found in fish oil…there is a growing body of science indicating links between diets low in omega-3 and such problems as bi-polar depression, suicide, and postpartum depression. – ….Evidence that mental and behavioral problems may also stem from Omega-3 deficiencies is more recent. But according to NIAAA bioichesty laboratory, the evidence is dramatic. …. (recent studies cited). – Harvard researchers gave two study groups (depression hospitalized patients) either Omega-3 (from fish oils, wild game, and some nuts) or Omega-6 (typical component of modern human ndiets that rely heavily on processed foods, grains and grain-fed farm animals). Found that O-3 is critical to growth and maintenance of brain cells, especially cell membranes (where neurotransmitters communicate messages, including a sense of well-being). When O-3 isn’t available, the body tries to make use of O-6, but it isn’t nearly as effective for these jobs. – Actually, overseers of the study stopped the study early becaue the evidence for O-3 was so dramatic that they thought, ethically speaking, that all the depressed patients — including the O-6 group should immediately start taking O-3 to benefit from it as well."
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Another study… Addition of Omega-3 Fatty Acid to Maintenance Medication Treatment for Recurrent Unipolar Depressive Disorder Boris Nemets, M.D., Ziva Stahl, M.Sc., and R. H. Belmaker, M.D. American Journal of Psychiatry, March 2002 OBJECTIVE: Studies have reported that countries with high rates of fish oil consumption have low rates of depressive disorder. The authors studied a specific omega-3 fatty acid, the ethyl ester of eicosapentaenoic acid (E-EPA), as an adjunct to treatment for depressive episodes occurring in patients with recurrent unipolar depressive disorder who were receiving maintenance antidepressant therapy. METHOD: Twenty patients with a current diagnosis of major depressive disorder participated in a 4-week, parallel-group, double-blind addition of either placebo or E-EPA to ongoing antidepressant therapy. Seventeen of the patients were women, and three were men. RESULTS: Highly significant benefits of the addition of the omega-3 fatty acid compared with placebo were found by week 3 of treatment. CONCLUSIONS: It is not possible to distinguish whether E-EPA augments antidepressant action in the manner of lithium or has independent antidepressant properties of its own. Omega-3 fatty acids have received considerable attention as a therapeutic option in cardiovascular disease (1). These compounds are derived from fish oil, and epidemiologic evidence suggests some relationships between ingestion of fish oil and both cardiac disease and depressive disorder in different cultures. Studies have reported that countries with high rates of fish oil consumption have low rates of depressive disorder (2). One controlled double-blind trial (3) found marked therapeutic efficacy and no side effects of omega-3 fatty acids in the prevention of bipolar manic-depressive illness. Several studies of omega-3 fatty acids have been performed in behavioral disorders and have found few side effects (4). There is evidence suggesting that omega-3 has an effect on human CSF serotonin metabolites (5). Edwards et al. (6) reported changes in fatty acid levels in the diet and red blood cells of depressed patients. Maes et al. (7) reported changes in serum fatty acid composition in depressive disorder. Severus et al. (8) proposed that omega-3 fatty acids are the mechanistic "missing link" connecting cardiovascular disease and depressive disorder, representing a key pathophysiological clue to the mechanism of depressive disorder. We studied a specific omega-3 fatty acid, the ethyl ester of eicosapentaenoic acid (E-EPA), as an adjunct to antidepressant treatment for episodes of depressive disorder occurring in patients with recurrent unipolar depressive disorder who were receiving maintenance antidepressant therapy. Method Patients with current major depressive disorder diagnosed according to DSM-IV were included in the study if they were 18
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