Fish oil side effects

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Thanks - not looking for an herbal cure, just curious about it for health reasons.

It's an herb that you can eat in salads, the blue flowers are edible too and sometimes appear on fancy desserts, but the omega-6 is in the seed-oil. Which might be sold as something else, 'starflower oil' or something that sounds like that. I don't think anybody thinks it, or other essential fatty acids, cure autism. People just think they improve brain-function, but can't prove it.

http://www.oilofpisces.com/attentiondef ... order.html

I don't know about the validity of this study but I would like to look more into it. I read a few other articles that seem to confirm it. I did read one article on cod liver oil and autism as well and it suggested that cod liver oil does help. Again, I don't know the validity. It could be a really crappy study. If there were actual valid proof it helped it, I am sure word would have spread more.

For my son, it does seem to help with his attention and stutter. We didn't give him cod liver oil for a month and he was stuttering a lot more, seemed more OCD-like and had more difficulties with attention. Other people were mentioning his behavior and stutter to us during this time. A few weeks after reintroducing cod liver oil, he seemed better.

No matter what, I still have to realize that it could be the "placebo effect" and we think there is a difference when there is none. That is what could have happened in those studies as well. I need to look more into it. Was it a double blind placebo study or not? Did some kids get "fake" fish oil? I will read it more tonight.

Fish oil and cod liver oil is still really good for us all. It is good for memory and I need that a lot more than my son LOL!

OK, so if you want fish oil, you should get fish oil!? NEAT THEORY THERE, but I think they figured that out millions of years ago!

Omega 3 is recognized as helping joints, the heart, and brain. I'll be honest in saying that I don't see any current clear correlation between it and memory, in my own case. There HAVE been some studies to prove some things.

I wish it helped my memory, too. My memory sucks