Depression, it is widely believed, looks set to become the second biggest burden on the health service by the year 2020, but scientists claim high quality fish oils might just be the natural answer to treating even the severest cases.
The key to the treatment is elcosapentaenoic acid (EPA), an Omega-3 fatty acid. Brain scans reveal […]
I found the following story, submitted by a 50 year old man to the Dyslexia Research Trust, quite inspiring. Clearly, high-EPA fish oil may help at any age and stage…
C.W. has suffered from attention deficit– hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) all his life. He was already 50 years old when he first came across our research and […]
Professor Basant K. Puri has written a number of books concering his research with omega-3 fatty acids and EPA. Recently, I read The Natural Way to Beat Depression Along with Hilary Boyd, Dr. Puri details his successful experience in treating patients with depression using high-EPA fish oil in this informative book.
I found the book to […]
The following was excerpted from “Battling The Blues: Ongoing research shows that omega-3 fatty acids help treat depression”:
Post: Do omega-3 fatty acids continue to demonstrate mood-stabilizing benefits?
Dr. Stoll: No one has replicated the findings of our original study as yet. The real story now is that there are now numerous positive studies on the benefits […]
Researchers from Quebec and Ontario are studying the role of a specific fatty acid in treating major depression — eicosapentaenoic acid or EPA — which is largely obtained from omega-3 fatty acids found in fish.
The double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study of 508 people will be the largest “gold standard” trial of this type of treatment so […]
The following is a look at recent and current research concerning EPA and depression. Note that studies done with high amounts of DHA yielded no or negative results. (For an understanding of the relationship between EPA and DHA, please see “Why is the EPA to DHA Ratio Important?”
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A group of researchers from Israel has discovered that rats exhibiting the signs of depression have increased levels of the omega-6 fatty acid, arachidonic acid, in their brains. The details of their findings appear in the June issue of the Journal of Lipid Research, an American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology journal.During recent years, […]
A few years prior to the publication of the Durham-Oxford Trial results, Dr. Andrew Stoll published The Omega-3 Connection. I discovered this book after coming across a few mentions of Stoll’s research on Dr. Alex Richardson’s Food and Behavior Research site.
A brief descrption, courtesy of Amazon.com:
Ground-breaking research provides an exciting new approach to treating the […]