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omega-3 isn’t an option, its a necessity for our bodies. You can also get it from putting flax seed or flax meal in your cold or hot cereal.

Omega 3 are an essential part of a excellent diet and is for more than just one or 2 things. I take it for arthritis, heart health and mild depression.
You may also want to look into a vitamin D supplement. Depending on where you live, you may need one. The FDA is increasing the RDR of this nutrient and there has been much written about the lack of this vitamin in the normal diet. The thing with D is it is hard to get in foods and the only other source is the sun. If you live in the northern hemisphere and rarely go out-of-doors, you are most likely deficient. I would add that to your daily regimen.

I once read a book where they took all types of mental illnesses (depression, manic depression, add/adhd, anxiety, schizophrenia, dxlexia. agoraphobia etc and they tested the patient via a pet scan of the brain before and after treatment which was high doses of fish oil.

The example I remember was they got a person with schizophrenia to push a bottom when he was having an hallucination and then checked him immediately via a PET scan (like a cat scan) and were able to see which part of the brain was committed.

After taking large amounts of fish oil (I forget the amount but like 5000 mg or so), he bunged having all sign of schizophrenia..then they repeated the pet scan and found that the area from before now completely resembled a normal brain and not a schizophrenic brain,

The reason omega three fats work for things like depression is that average American gets several times more omega 6 fats than omega threes (as omega three are not that common) and this causes the brain (which is primarily stout) to malfunction in the following way.

Normally the neurotransmitters (reckon of them as small boats) have to cross the synaptic gap between two neurons (brain cells) and then continue on going from neuron to neuron in a kind of nerve relay or impulse. When these boats go into the gap between the brain cells in their travels, they must cross the gap and then jump to the next neuron..they do this by docking into dock like sites caused neuro-receptor sites. Normally they are snug so the boats (neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine, etc) wiggle their way in as the docks (neuro-receptor sites are bendable.

But, when we get more omega 6 than we should (the 6 and 3 fats should be about equal), these receptor site (docks) harden and the boats cannot wiggle in them and they build up in the gap and this is what is called a chemical imbalance. Too much of a neurotransmitter there can cause an illness like say depression.

supposedly antidepressant alter this process; unfortunately thought they carry serious side look..most SSRI antidepressants can cause increased suicidal ideation and exacerbated depression in some people (read peter breggins books for the dangers). This is why alternative healing is preferred.

One should increase omega three fatty acids by consuming fish oil..the highest sources in fish (canned or fresh (wildcaught not farmed) are mackerel, salmon, herring and sardines. The only land sources are walnuts, flax seeds and flax seed oil, and purslane.

I am interested in your findings as I have add I strongly believe and was just researching herbs for it. Do you feel fish oil can pinch hit for the krill oil which I assume is more expensive and what was the exact dose (by mg) that you took..

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Based on the data I just clarified and mentioned, no, I would certainly not assume it is a placebo look..real changes are taking place in the brain.

Has your anxiety also gone down as I have this and depression and need to start taking the fish oil I have in the freezer that I ordinarily forget to take..I am thinking I should take these again after reading your question and thinking about this..