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Article: Essential Fatty Acids and the Treatment of Psychiatric Diseases.
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- Original Internist
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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A significant number of people suffer from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or severe depression. These conditions cause severe disruption of life and living for those who suffer these conditions, and for those around them -- friends, family, schoolmates, and/or co-workers. It is exciting that recently there have been breakthroughs in the treatment of these disabling conditions. Surprisingly, this treatment comes from research being done on essential fatty acids.
The essentiality of the omega 3 and omega 6 essential fatty acids is well known. The studies linking degenerative disease to the lack of these fatty acids number in the thousands, and they continue to ...