Sounds like fish story to me.
You mean, .... that fish is ....
BRAIN FOOD?
ohmegawd...
The hell with a medical degree, I am going to team up with some old wives and sell fish oil by the barrel. What's next.
Maybe what fish oil needed all along was a better publicist. After all, this isn't the medical community's first infatuation with omega-3s. Back in 1970, a pair of Danish researchers, Hans Olaf Bang and Jørn Dyerberg, traveled to Greenland to uncover why the Eskimo population there had a low incidence of heart disease despite subsisting on a high-fat diet. Their finding: The Eskimos' blood contained high levels of omega-3s, establishing the first link to heart health. But even though this discovery spurred additional omega-3 research throughout the '70s and '80s, the public remained more interested in other nutrients—none of which had the unfortunate words "fish" or "fatty" in their names.
P.S.: the eskimo of Greenland also had/have really high magnesium, vitamin E and selenium in their blood. 5 to 20 times more. As we know selenium is associated with lower stroke rate in most populations, and magnesium is associated with heart health and low BP. As well, perhaps the Shutes of London Ontario were right all along about Vitamin E vis vis, BP, angina and intermittent claudication. They used to roll their own from wheat germ oil, and it would no doubt have different combination of alpha, beta, delta and gamma tocopherols and tocotrienols than the usual store-bought stuff -dL-tocopherol- that slows down rat fetus abortions at rate "x". |
