Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have
reported that omega-3 fatty acid is highly effective in treating children
with ADD, ADHD and bipolar disorder. The study was reported in the journal
European Neuropsychopharmacology in February 2007.
"Results from this prospective, open study of monotherapy with omega-3
fatty acids in over-the-counter Omega products suggest that manic symptoms
can be rapidly reduced in youths with BPD with a safe and well-tolerated
nutritional supplement," wrote lead researcher Dr. Janet Wozniak.
The high-EPA supplement of Omega-3 fatty acids was tested for effectiveness
and safety on 20 boys and girls with bipolar disorder, ages 6 to 17
years old, over an eight-week period. Half of the participants experienced
a rapid 30 percent reduction in symptoms with no side effects.
"What this study shows is that every child with ADD, bipolar or any
other mood disorder should be on Omega 3's," said Dr. John Ratey, author
of the best-selling Driven to Distraction and a well-respected expert
on ADD. "And the only side effect is a longer life."
"This is great news for parents," said Dr. Carol Locke, who served on
the Harvard Medical School faculty for 14 years. "Parents are always
struggling with how best to help their children. It is incredibly gratifying
to develop a product that offers a safe mood stabilizer and natural
anti-depressant."
The study demonstrated that supplements reduced the participating children's
Young Mania Rating Scale scores (YMRS) -- the standard rating scale
for children with bipolar disorder -- by 30 percent. The same research
team conducted a similar study with risperidone or olanzapine, the two
most commonly prescribed drugs for the disorder. The pharmaceuticals
treated the children's disorders but led to side effects including diabetes.
Other commonly prescribed drugs such as lithium, divalproex and carbamazepine
are only minimally effective or fraught with adverse effects, the researchers
noted.
"EPA and DHA are essential fatty acids that the body cannot make so
we must obtain them in our diet, which is very hard to do, or by supplements,"
said Locke. "An imbalance of omega-6 and omega-3 can result in an overall
inflammatory response and related disorders such as depression, cardiac
disease, cancer, dementia, asthma and rheumatoid arthritis."
Locke concluded, "Over the next five years, we will see
Omega-3
fatty acids become a foundation of health."
ADHD is a fictitious disease invented by the pharmaceutical industry
to sell amphetamine drugs to children. The conventional medical industry
doesn't want to talk about nutritional cures for diseases or disorders
because they know that if consumers were made aware of how simply and
inexpensively these conditions could be resolved with nutrition, sales
of pharmaceuticals would plummet. Symptoms of ADHD are easily eliminated
in 80 percent of children within two weeks by merely supplementing with
omega-3 oils and eliminating processed foods (especially refined sugars)
from kids' diets.
The psychiatric industry does not promote nutrition as a method for
preventing or treating depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD or other mental
or behavioral conditions. Instead, it works to keep consumers ignorant
of such solutions and pretends that these diseases are caused by "brain
chemistry imbalances" that can only be corrected with synthetic patented
chemicals (pharmaceuticals). Essentially, modern psychiatry believes
that all such disorders are caused by a pharmaceutical deficiency. This
belief conveniently serves the profit motives of the drug companies
which now virtually run modern psychiatry.
