Fish oil not help the brain

Fish oil may be useful for your heart, but not the brain, as scientists have found. For two years, they tried to find the advantages of using fish oil for mental activity, but found nothing.

"This is a very important discovery, because a lot of people are taking fish fat hoping to improve cognitive Brain Function "- Says Dr. Alan Dangur from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, one of the authors of the study. However, Dr. Dangur not rule out the possibility that the fish oil in the long term may have some positive effect.

Countless studies proving improve mental performance in people who eat a lot of fish. The risk of developing dementia supporters fish diet also seems to be less. How is this explained Dr Dangur? "The problem with all of these studies you mentioned, is that people who eat a lot of fish for various reasons," - said the scientist.

To better answer the question about the use of fish oil   Dangur attracted 748 men and women after the age of 70. None of no signs of dementia or other disorders of mental activity. Every day for two years, the subjects took 200 milligrams of eicosapentaenoic acid and 300 mg of docosahexaenoic acid, or placebo.

After 24 months, scientists found no significant differences in mental activity and brain function study participants. The percentage of those who died during this period, including taking the fish oil and placebo was also statistically similar.

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