Psychosis is a group of the most severe mental illnesses.
Ingestion of fish oil has a specific effect on the function of the human brain that can be used in the treatment of conditions like psychoses, as well as for the prevention of schizophrenia.
Scientists believe that it contained acids improve the interaction of neurotransmitters in the brain.
In a very positive effect of taking fish oil on the brain could be convinced scientists from the Medical University of Vienna and the Youth research Centre Orygen Health in Australia. This international project has collected 81 voluntary participants with high propensity to psychosis due to a number of factors. In particular, they have observed moderate psychotic symptoms, had a family history of the disease.
The risk that these people may develop a psychotic state during the year was valued highly by scientists, 40%. The experiment consisted in the fact that over 12 weeks, 41 participants took 1.2 grams of omega-3, and the other 40 people placebo.
When summarizing the results revealed that in the group taking fatty acids the risk of disease was already at 4.9%, whereas in the placebo group to 27.5%.
According to physicians, these results support the need for the prevention of psychosis with fish oil. Scientists believe that fatty acids affect cell membrane and improve the quality of interaction of neurotransmitters in the brain.
Recall that psychosis is a group of the most severe mental illness, accompanied by severe disorders of mental activity, including schizophrenia, manic-depressive psychosis, senile psychosis, have, as a rule, ancestral roots.
“Ingestion of fish oil for 12 weeks helps to avoid the risk of psychosis, due to the saturated fatty acids contained in the capsules. In our opinion, the polyunsaturated fatty acids omega-3 are a promising tool for the prevention of schizophrenia in patients with impaired metabolism of fatty acids,” said the study authors.
