Raena Morgan: Do the omega 3s affect depression?
Dr. Jorn Dyerberg: One of the most impressive studies finding is that, you know, the post
natal depression. When a female has given birth, this happy period can be
overwhelmed by a sad and deep depression. And many persons have
thought the mother delivers DHA to her child, and from nature’s point of
view, the child is more important than the mother because that’s a new
generation. So is it so that the mother delivers the DHA that she also
needed to her child because she didn’t get enough during her pregnancy.
An American scientist has compared the frequency of postpartum
depression with fish consumption in a majority of countries over the world
and found that the higher fish consumption, the lower frequency of
depression.
Raena Morgan: Well, how simple is that?
Dr. Jorn Dyerberg: How simple is that. There has not been major intervention trials, but some
smaller ones, indicative and also in other psychiatric disorders like
schizophrenia and bi-polar and it indicates that there could be some
positive effects on these disorders, too.
Raena Morgan: So the indications are there.
Dr. Jorn Dyerberg: The indications are there, but there’s a lot more research to be done. Every
researcher ends up a question with that and not only because that’s what
we’re living from, but because nature is a big, complex issue to study and
there’s a lot to be done yet.
Raena Morgan: Okay, well, thank you, Dr. Dyerberg.
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