Cod-liver oil warns mental derangements ...

Reception of cod-liver oil in the form of capsules is capable to slow down offensive of mental diseases. Results of the clinical researches spent by group of the European researchers on 81 patient testify to it, each of which concerns group of risk of disease by alienations.

The course of daily reception of capsules with fish Adepses within three months has appeared peer by efficiency to a course of medicamental treatment. It reduces to a quarter number of diseases by psychoses, in particular, schizophrenia.

Researchers believe, that the brain is influenced positively by fat acids omega-3 which contain in cod-liver oil.
Results of this research are published in scientific magazine Archives of General Psychiatry.
The medical products usually registered in such case, often possess undesirable collateral properties that excludes their use in many cases. On the other hand, cod-liver oil is transferred usually very well and widespread already now.
If young men can register with success cod-liver oil with a view of preventive maintenance of alienations, it is much more preferable than treatment by their antipsychotic medicines which have such collateral properties as adiposity and disorders of sex sphere.
The representative of British charitable organisation Mind For this research patients were selected on the basis of family history of diseases by schizophrenia or similar alienations, or on the basis of presence of weak symptoms of these diseases.

Within the limits of research half of examinees received a daily dose of cod-liver oil in the form of a capsule with 1,2 g fat acids of type omega-3 within 12 months. Other half received плацебо. Anybody from examinees did not know, what exactly they accepted.

Doctor Paul Amminger heading group of researchers from Austria, Switzerland and Australia, within a year watched a state of health of this group of people, tracing offensive of alienations.
Among the first group only two examinees have shown signs of such disorder - in comparison with 11 in the second group receiving placebo.

Scientists consider, that reception of fat acids of type omega-3 essentially changes transfer chemistry neural impulses in a brain with obvious medical effect.

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