I recently spoke with Felice Jacka, who is doing her PhD at the University of Melbourne on the role of nutrition in mood disorders. She showed me a slide which I found very compelling. On one axis was the percentage incidence of depression in that country and on the other axis was the kg per capita of fish consumed in that country. There certainly appeared to be a direct correllation between these two. Countries like Japan, who eat a lot of fish had a very low rate of depression and countries like New Zealand who don’t have much seafood in their diet have a high rate of depression.

I have been taking Omega 3 supplements for about 2 years. I don’t believe that this is the total solution to depression but the evidence certainly looks very promising as a supplementary strategy with no side effects.

Kind Regards

Graeme

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