Posted by LOOPS on March 31, 2005, at 18:34:38
In reply to Good site Thanks » LOOPS, posted by tealady on March 31, 2005, at 17:13:12
You could have had a point before about B5 being depleted by fish oil. I have no idea. What I do know is that I take a B complex regularly, so maybe that helps.
I recently read an article in the Sunday Times about treatment with high dose ethyl-epa on a 21 year old male with unresponsive depression. The brain scans after 6 months were impressive - his brain had literally grown in density. He was, however, also taking antidepressants (didn't say which ones). Anyway, the fish oil made him into a responder.
They say human intellect was originally built on the ingestion of EPA/DHA + cholesterol.
How long did you try the fish oil for? Not that I'm debating how it affected you badly - I am sure it did - but my initial experience with it was it made everything a whole lot 'weirder/worse/better' to start with. Then I just thought hell, I'll keep taking it and it has got better.
I'm not sure how much of a mood stabilizer it is - I know now it definitely stops me going into orbit or into the pit, but it doesn't sort out all my mental problems, at least not yet. All I want to do is to be able to react with some degree of normality to presented problems in my life.
ah the rambling. Have you given the EPO/borage oil a shot? The amount of times I've heard doctors going on about how some people respond better to the EPO/B6 thing rather than omega-3. I just take both, as I fit into both borderline PD and mild bipolar (not that I want to fit into any category really!).
Loops
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