Is fish oil good for you? If sales of fish oil capsules are anything to go by then there’s little doubt that fish oil is good for you. It is now estimated that sales of products that include fish oil, for their Omega3 essential fatty acids, are in the billions of dollars per annum.

But that doesn’t mean that fish oil is good for you. It might just be well marketed.

So let’s examine the question. Is fish oil good for you or not?

There’s no doubt that there are significant benefits to your heart health from increasing your intake of the Omega3 essential fatty acids most commonly found in the oil of fish. There are ample scientific studies establishing the heart health benefits of upping your intake of the Omega3 fatty acids, and the evidence supporting the heart and vascular benefits of eating more Omega3 fats is so solid that the American Heart Association now tells us that we all eat a minimum amount of fish.

And there is also good evidence, though not as strong as the evidence in support of the cardiovascular benefits, that increasing our intake of the Omega3 fats can also benefit a wide range of other areas of our health.

For instance the most important of the Omega3 fats, DHA, makes up a large part of the fat in our brains, and for this reason it is considered that an adequate supply of DHA through pregnancy and the early years of childhood is very important to the proper development of the brain and cognitive functions.

And there is also increasing evidence that plenty of Omega3 fats in the early years can also have a positive effect on conditions such as ADD and ADHD, and also depression in adults.

Not only that but DHA also makes up a significant percentage of the retina of your eye, and evidence is showing that more Omega 3 fats can help improve childhood vision and reduce the incidence of macular degeneration in the elderly. Macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in older people.

And there is a wide range of other health conditions which have been shown in studies to benefit or possibly benefit from increasing your intake of the Omega 3 fatty acids found in fish oil.

But it’s not all great news. Whilst fish oil might be good for you in some cases it isn’t in all. A recent study has found that taking fish oil supplements is not good for you if you’re undergoing chemotherapy for cancer. The study found that taking fish oil supplements reduce the effectiveness of the chemotherapy. Of course this is only one study and others are needed in support of the conclusion.

But in answer to our original question, is fish oil good for you, the overwhelming answer is yes. In some cases the evidence is a little thin, in others, such as for people undergoing chemotherapy, the evidence is emerging that increasing your intake of fish oil might not be good for you, but in the overwhelming majority of cases there is no doubt that more fish oil in your diet is good for your health.

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