Anxiety And Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
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Ross BM.
Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids.
2009 Nov 9.
Division of Medical Sciences,
Northern Ontario School of Medicine and Departments of Biology,
Chemistry and Public Health, Lakehead University,
Thunder Bay, 955 Oliver Road, Ontario, Canada P7B5E1.
Anxiety disorders are a common group of psychiatric illnesses
which have significant personal, family and societal costs.
Current treatments have limited efficacy in many patients
highlighting
a need for new therapeutic approaches to be explored.
Anxiety disorders exhibit marked comorbity with mood disorders
suggesting the existence of mechanistic similarities.
Such a notion is supported by observations that some conventional
pharmacotherapies are both effective antidepressants and anxiolytics.
As such, given that omega-3 PUFA supplementation may be effective
in the treatment of major depressive disorder it is reasonable to
propose
that they may also possess anxiolytic properties.
Experimental data in support of such a hypothesis is currently
lacking
although reduced abundance of omega-3 PUFA have been reported in
patients with anxiety, while supplementation with omega-3 PUFA
appears
to inhibit activation of the HPA axis and can ameliorate some of the
symptoms of anxiety.
Clinical investigations carried out to date have, however, involved
small
numbers of participants.
Larger trials using a variety of omega-3 PUFA species in clinically
well-defined patients with anxiety will be required to demonstrate a
therapeutic role for omega-3 PUFA in these disorders.
Given the excellent side effect profile of omega-3 PUFA as well as
their strong theoretical rationale, such future trials appear
justified.
PMID: 19906519
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read the results of such research, no effect found.
However, the many other benefits of fish oil are demonstrated and make
it well worth consideration. Jesus knew his foods.
Doug Laidlaw
Jesus lived in a nation of fishermen. So do the Japanese. The Jews had
sheep. Jesus talked about sheep a lot. He and a group were eating grain in
the fields, bread, many things. You need a balanced diet - a bit of
everything that your body needs. You need a balanced mind as well.
Doug.