Higher stress response and altered quality of life in schizophrenia patients with low membrane levels of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)

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I tried to say that word, my face screwed all up in the wrong direction and now I’m stuck that way. Words like that need to come with a black box label warning.

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That’s funny :rofl: !

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hey, good I got a laugh out of you.

:smiley:

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Do you take omega 3 (epa-dha)?

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I tried it, but it made me more anxious. Probably yet another interaction with Abilify. It’s supposed to be good for schizophrenia.

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I used to take that stuff daily DHA. I think it helped. That article makes me want to start taking it again. I have to find some good DHA again. They used to sell it at the local grocery store even and it was made from Algea so I didn’t have to worry about mercury and stuff from deriving it from fish. I can’t seem to find it anymore. It was about 10 bucks for a bottle of 30 pills and I took one pill a day. I think it might even help me graduate from college as I was taking it all the time when I was going to college back in 2002.

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Recently there was an interesting study in mice, in which two genes associated with bipolar disorder were removed. Treatment with EPA/DHA improved the behavioral traits of these mice, making them less “bipolar”.

This might mean that in some patients with bipolar disorder (in whom these particular genes/pathways are disturbed), these Omega-3 acids may be more efficient than in other patients. On the other hand, it’s only a single study, and could be proven wrong later. It’s all the beginning of a long research.

The link:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-023-01988-2

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