Not infrequently, some very important medical studies don’t get the attention they deserve. A long term study about fish oil prevention of mental illness, in this case psychosis, came out in August. The results of that investigation should have been shouted from the roof tops. Its time again to raise my voice.
Imagine a short term treatment, lasting only 3 months, that significantly reduced the likelihood of perhaps the most severe form of mental illness and continued to do so for the next SEVEN YEARS! If you imagined a bottle of fish oil, you nailed it.
Fish Oil Addendum
The testing results used on the fish oil lawsuit I mentioned are posted on fishoilsaety.com. Interestingly, the oils they tested are not the usual fish oils. One problematic oil was, as I anticipated, a salmon oil. Shark liver oil was a problem and several cod liver oils were also a problem. My apologies to those […]
Fish Oil Facts
There are some articles appearing just now about a lawsuit claiming some big chains are selling PCB contaminated fish oil. This is interesting. Years ago I strongly urged patients to make sure that any fish oil they purchased had been tested for purity. My rationale was concern over mercury, PCBs and other toxins. As we […]