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Originally posted by aggies1ut
How are you able to link fish oil intake with decreased depression? Are there other external factors or different supplements that you take? I'm just curious.
Originally posted by bandaidwoman
Great data on fish oil and depression Here is a good link to good epidimiolgical data and scientific journals.
http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/Depression/ect/selfhelp/fats.asp
From a chemical point of view ( as a prior chemist) it makes sense. valproic acid, the gold standard in mood stabilzer for treating manic depressive is very similar to omega 3 (valproic acid is a fatty acid) and both work on the arachadonic pathway in a similar fashion. Thus, andrew stoll's work with using fish oil in this population and its comparison with valproic acid was a brilliant way to grab the medical communities attention. Medical anthropologists will tell you that until the eskimos started eating a western diet, anthropological retrospective data show no signs of bipolar type illnesses in that culture( and possibly, even no depression. ) (By the way, they also had the highest rates of STDs so they were very happy
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Originally posted by Vieope
I am really gonna try the fish oil, I can´t exactly go to the doctor to get proper medication if I need it, most of my peers and my parents think depression is just a thing that you need to get over it and any medication for it they will assume that I am going crazy.![]()
Monolith, what is "...pretty hardcore symptoms" for you ?
Originally posted by Vieope
Yeah, I know. It must be exactly like nitrous oxide.