I am so
tired with different supplements that do not have any reasonable scientific background.
These supplements I guess can work somehow in a scale of placebo, no doubt
about it, but when this mess is aggressively advertised everywhere – it feels
not very right. And here we have obtained results
from a study (see also here)
which show that omega-3 is not helpful for cardiovascular protection:
Scientists who reviewed data from about 68,000
patients gathered in 20 trials over the past 24 years found that men and women
taking fish oil supplements didn’t lower their risk for a bevy of ills
including heart attacks, strokes and death.
Diverging recommendations about the benefits of
fish-oil supplements, which contain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, can
“cause confusion in everyday clinical practice about whether to use these
agents for cardiovascular protection,” Moses Elisaf and his colleagues from the
University of Ioannina in Greece wrote in the paper.
I would
recommend conducting similar studies for all crap supplements which are highly
recommended by suspicious” professionals.” However I doubt that the results
obtained will decrease the amount of omega-3 consumed – people always need some
kind of “magic” placebo to maintain their health. And omega-3 has very big
advantage – it is at least non-toxic!
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