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Study Suggests Fish Oil Can Ward Off Psychotic Episodes

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Posted on Feb 2, 2010
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Schizophrenia is one of the most baffling of mental illnesses, but a group of scientists studying the phenomenon in Austria may have hit upon a significant discovery that could help young potential schizophrenics prevent the onset of full-blown psychosis, and the treatment comes in a familiar form: fish oil supplements.  —KA

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Researchers in the new study identified 81 people, ages 13 to 25, with warning signs of psychosis, including sleeping much more or less than usual, growing suspicious of others, believing someone is putting thoughts in their head or believing they have magical powers. Forty-one were randomly assigned to take four fish oil pills a day for three months. The other patients took dummy pills.

After a year of monitoring, 2 of the 41 patients in the fish oil group, or about 5%, had become psychotic, or completely out of touch with reality. In the placebo group, 11 of 40 became psychotic, about 28%.

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By Leefeller, February 4 at 12:40 pm #

My Schizophrenia seems to have dissipated like the money in my wallet.

After I started using fish oil, I suddenly had an urge to become a Republican this happened about the same time I discovered my inclination to fondle teabags. Now my Doctor says I have to cut back on my mercury intake whatever that means, though I once owned a Ford.

Since I own forty cats, the fish oil thing turned out to be a major mistake.

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By NYCartist, February 3 at 5:03 pm #

Having a senior moment: forgot to add, in time, that the amount of violence in people with mental illness is the same percentage as the general population, about 3per cent.  A friend with bipolar illness (formerly called manic depression) reminds me of that fact often.

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By NYCartist, February 3 at 5:01 pm #

This rumor has been around before, viz for bipolar.  Eh.  And I’d like to slightly revise gerard’s comment to : swab the Pentagon, the White House, Congress, the Mayor’s Office/NYC, the Police Commissioner’s office because a)they’re doing the violence and
b)it smells bad enough in NYC already.  (I was once given cod liver oil as a kid…My mom never caught me again to repeat…)

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By liecatcher, February 3 at 4:17 pm #

STUDY SUGGESTS FISH OIL CAN WARD OFF PSYCHOTIC
EPISODES


First we import fascism from Austria, then we import
a GOVENATOR to
destroy California, & now with America in the throes
of a cataclysmic
financial collapse, we import a stealth fish oil
infomercial. Just what
we need to keep those of us who lost our jobs, homes,
savings &
futures from going crazy.

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By willux, February 3 at 12:05 pm #
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Could we put it into drinking water?  Maybe then USans wouldn’t be fooled by assinnine, ridiculous state false flag “terror” like the crotch bomber, who couldn’t even blow off his nuts let alone the airplane.

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By ofersince72, February 3 at 2:06 am #

Gerard beat me to it…

How about over at the Pentagon too. Fish oil for all

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By lichen, February 3 at 12:37 am #

Flax or hemp oil would do it better—I doubt the mercury and other heavy metals in fish oil will help.

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By gerard, February 2 at 10:24 pm #

My suggestion:  Swab the streets of Washington, Los Angeles and New York with fish oil to cut down on “psychotic episodes” like war, police brutality and Wall Street theft.

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