Posted by psychobot5000 on May 7, 2011, at 15:10:37
In reply to Re: fish oil studies? » desolationrower, posted by SLS on May 7, 2011, at 7:05:22
> > Well if you put that into scholar.google.com you will have a lifetime's worth of reading. Checking the citations on wikipaedia or other well-referenced writeups is also a good place to start. as well as looking at the citations in a paper, and what papers cite a paper you are reading.
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> > i might look for EPA or DHA, if a paper doesn't mention those it is going to be tangential.
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> I suspect that there is more to fish oil than just providing the building blocks of cell membranes. Some people get manic from it within the first day of taking it. It would seem that these omega fatty acids have pharmacological properties at supranutritional high dosages. I don't know. Maybe not.
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> Can you shed any light on this subject?
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> - ScottIt's definitely true that the stuff can have some sort of quasipharmacalogical action. Fish oil fixes up my severe depression quite neatly, in a way nothing, and I mean nothing, else ever has. It also keeps me from sleeping to a ridiculous degree, which sort of ruins the positive effect. If I could find a way to counter that side-effect, it would be, frankly, life-changing for me, and it's my greatest wish that this can be done somehow.
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