Posted by psychobot5000 on October 11, 2006, at 22:09:51
In reply to DHA vs EPA » psychobot5000, posted by pseudoname on October 11, 2006, at 21:15:15
Hi, thanks for the info--ironically, your helpful info from Servan Schrieber aided me with a question I was just in the middle of writing.
What I thought about fish oil was that the EPA might be causing insomnia, and the DHA -just might- be causing the worsened mood and motivation-less depression.
> In Servan-Schreiber's book "Instinct to Heal" (which I seem to mention no matter what the thread is about, lol), he says DHA supplement has been found to NOT help depression, whereas EPA or a less-DHA/more-EPA mix does. I had tried veggie DHA before without success.
>If I remember right, it sounded like AdamCanada was facing an increase in anergic depression, so I thought -just maybe- the DHA could be related. ...It seems to be making me feel like crap, now that I've started on a 250mg DHA, 36mg EPA diet. The more EPA-heavy diet was definitely giving me insomnia.
Of course there's also Adamcanada's melatonin to worry about.
Anyway, just my 2 cents. I'd stay away from both the fish-oil and the melatonin, for the time-being.
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