Posted by tealady on March 31, 2005, at 19:18:08
In reply to fish oil (...again - sorry), posted by LOOPS on March 31, 2005, at 18:34:38
> 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.
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> They say human intellect was originally built on the ingestion of EPA/DHA + cholesterol.Ahh that explains my brain degradation...
Hi Loops:-)
I suspect its that fish oil maybe causes a rise in NO
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8041151&dopt=Abstract
and I suspect I have too much already of that(lots of posts on here back in Sept-Nov 2003 I suspect on here when I was having a lot of difficulty with it I suspect or something t do with it anyway)...whereas other people don't have enough...hence the popularity of Viagra :-)
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/college/boyer/0470003790/cutting_edge/viagra/viagra.htm
I'm sure there are better references out there, and It's all a bit beyond me..but that was where my suspicions about fish oil lie..similar symptoms, although not as profound.
NO I think binds like carbon monoxide(although not anywhere near the same extent) and cuts the binding of Oxygen to hemeglobin... this is all very vague and washed out in my brain..so I could be completely wrong, but I think that's what I remember.I'm one who always feels like there isn't enough oxygen..unless i",m out in the real fresh air relaxing.
NO is good stuff providing you don't have too much of it ..as with everything I guess.Maybe someone else who is interested in why fish oil works might be intersted in this line though..and can shoot me down if I'm on the wrong track please.
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> 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.
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over a year and with VitE..though only the alpha kind (with CoQ10 as well) and some EPO.> 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.
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> 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!).
>Yes, I'm one who loves B6 (especially enteric P5P) and loves EPO..my 2 favourite supps for many years..ofh and zinc too. That should maybe indicate pyroluria? but I can't get tested for it..my urine is not pink or anything like that though.
tea
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