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Omega 3 EPA: Nature's own antidepressant

Since Dr Malcolm Peet, a consultant psychiatrist at Sheffield swallow court hospital released his findings about the effects of Ethyl Epa and its effects on people suffering from depression and low moods, many other studies have been performed using Ethyl Epa to help treat depression and related disorders. The vast majority of the studies that have been performed consistently confirmed that Ethyl Epa, a natural substance found in omega 3 fish oil, helps relieve depression and low moods.

The idea that high grade omega 3 EPA could be used to help combat depression and other related disorders came from the late Dr Horribin, who as early as the 1970s was a pioneer in lipid research involving the brain and central nervous system. Since the findings at Sheffield, studies have been conducted round the world, Harvard university 1999, London Hammersmith hospital 2001 and Israel Ben Gurion University  2002 to name but a few.

EPA As Part Of A Healthy Diet
EPA is part of the Omega 3 chain of ecosanoids and is most commonly found in fatty fish such as fresh salmon, mackerel, pilchards and sardines. Over the past 100 years the diet patterns of most people in the west has shifted dramatically to include far more hydrogenated oils and Trans fatty acids (bad fats) this is largely due to the increased consumption of fast food and ready made meals. Even people who think they eat a healthy diet consume way too much omega 6 and not enough omega 3.

Researchers have recently found that a diet high in Tran's fatty acids could affect the mood stabilizing hormones within the brain, this is thought to be due to the saturated fats slowing down the messaging system within the brain, should this happen then the onset of depression could occur.

How Does EPA Work?

While the benefits of high grade EPA have been well documented, the scientific community still don't know exactly how EPA works on the brain, one theory released by Dr Basant Puri is that it eases the passage of the signals over the tiny gaps in the brain called synapses. Another theory was that the high Grade Epa actually worked similar to lithium and had anti depressant properties of its own.

Until recently it was widely accepted in the medical community that once a human reached maturity that the adult brain could not grow anymore, in a recent paper just released by Dr Puri his findings show other wise. Dr Puri scanned a 21 year patient before treating him with high grade Pure Epa, after the course of treatment he rescanned the young man only to find that the grey matter of the brain had increased in size.

Omega 3 EPA And The Body
As well as EPA being very good for helping to balance mood it has other well documented effects on the body, these included:-

. Blood thinning properties
. Decrease risk of heart attack
. Decrease growth rate  of atherosclerotic plaque
. Slightly lower blood pressure

There is also some limited scientific evidence to show that high grade EPA has helped people suffering from:-

. Bipolar disorder
. PMS
. Chronic fatigue syndrome / ME
. Huntington's disease
. Fibromyalgia
. Obsessive compulsive disorder
. Schizophrenia
. ADHD
. ADD

Although more research needs to be done in these areas, the current evidence looks very promising.

EPA Versus DHA
Omega 3 fish oil contains another omega 3 nutrient called DHA, there is a currently a controversial argument as to which omega 3 nutrient is the more beneficial in dealing with depression and related disorders.  This Argument is born from doctors who have used high grade Epa , Horribin, Puri and Peet  They claim that the higher the ratio of Epa to Dha the more effective the results have been, just recently Dr Andrew Stoll has also come out in support of this theory.

EPA From Food
Any good doctor or nutritionist will tell you that the best way to get any nutrient is to eat a very balanced diet of the correct amount of carbohydrates , protein and omega essential fatty acids.  In the case of Omega 3 epa  this would be in the form of fish,  unfortunately due to the high concentration levels of epa needed to obtain a therapeutic dose you would have to consume a large amount of oily fish daily and sadly due to the pollution levels found in our oceans today this is not advisable.

Omega 3 Epa can also be found in high doses in certain fish oil supplements, when choosing a fish oil supplement you should choose only the  fish oil of the highest quality  it should also  have as high an EPA to DHA ratio as possible,for maximum therapeutic effect.

Conclusion
The large majority of scientific trails using high grade Omega 3 Ethyl Epa point towards this natural oil being very beneficial for many conditions. The argument about the DHA rages on and probably will until some solid  scientific evidence is presented to us .In the mean time a product with a high EPA to DHA ratio is considered more beneficial by some leading UK doctors.

The Author
Dave mcevoy:  A great resource for high grade omega 3 Ethly EPA fish oil in a vegetable shell with a 90% concentrate of EPA and Zero DHA  visit   http://www.mind1st.co.uk    

 

About radical diet cures

Radical diet cures have a long tradition as  a general treatment to loose weight and to help the body get rid of a lot of ailments. Such cures are mostly offered at special althernative hospitals, bath institutions, spas or health centers. The initial faces of the cures are mostly done at the center, and the cure proceeds when the patient has gone home again.

How are such cures done?

The approch of these cures is generally as follows.

- First there is a period of fasting that can vary from a couple of days to 14 days. In this period the person do not eat anything, but drinks a lot of liquids. These liquids are different in the different variants, but are often vegetable juices, fruit juices, juices made of corn sprouts, and the like. In this period supplemets of vitamins and minerals are often given. Herbal teas is a common ingredient given in this face and some cures contain coffee or tea in various amounts.

- Enemas are a common treatment during the firit and next period of the cure. The enemas can be pure water enemas or enemas containing juices, coffee or tea.

- The next face is a period consisting of only raw vegetarian food, or with raw vegetarian food as a main constituent.

- The last face is ment to be the permanent diet of the perosn having gone through the cure. This diet also contain much raw vegetarian food, but a broader collection of food types is also introduced. In some variants also this permanent diet is wholly vegetarian. In many variants milk, diary products and eggs are added in this face. in still other fish or meat is introduced in the permanent diet.

- Training, yoga, meditation, massage or physical therapy of various kinds usually accompany the fasting and diet cures.

How various approaches differ?

The various cures are based upon diverse philosphies about the composition of the meals, especially approaches of how to combine different food types.

- Many variants hold it important that each meal begin with some raw vegetarian food.

- There is a claim by some variants that fruit and vegetables shall never be combined.

- Some variants divide the food types into acid-producing food and base-producing food, and claim that there must be a balance between these two categories. This balance is very difficult to obtain, because most foods tend to be classified as acid-producing.

- Other variants divide the food types according to the eastern yin-yang-theory, and claim that there must be a balance betwwen yin and yang. Often Yin-food are the same as the acid-producing food in the other approach and yang-food the same as the base-producing, but the correspondance is not exact.

- Some claim that meat and diary products never must be combined together.

What are the benefits and negative effects of these cures

These cures can help a person to loose weight. The claim is also that the cures improve the general health and make the immune system more effective. There are claims that the cures can ammeliorate, cure or help cure diseases as rheumatic diseases, cardiovascular disease, allergy, chronic infections and also cancer. There are few claims that these cures can help against accute disease.

Many persons have gone throught these types of cures, and the majority of them claim that the cures really have given them benefit against diseases like rheumatism, allergies, chronic infection and even cancer. Claims that the cures actually have taken such serious diseases away alltogehter are also fairly common.

However, continuing with a radical vegetarian diet as a permanent life diet do not seem to give the optimal benefit. The cures that have this as a permanent goal, tend to break down the health of a person in the long run. Many patients that have got radically better through such a cure, get sick again in the long run because the radical vegetarian diet give hem to little nutrients, especiallty too little protein with an optimal aminio acid mix and too little fat of the type omega-3.

These cures contain very little protein and calories, especially in the intitial fasting period. Therefore people going through these cures tend to radically loose weight and muscle mass. The loss of muscle mass is a negative effect of these cures. because of these efffects, very under-weighted persons should not attend such a cure without modifications that give them some more nutrients during the first faces.

How do these cures work

The usual explanation given for the effect of these cures, is that they clean out impoities and toxins from the intestinal tract and the rest of the body. This is probably one of the basic effects.

Another effect might be that the lack of nutrients during the fasting and the next face, makes the body break down things that can be utilized for obtaining energy and proteins. This will be fat in the fat tissue, but probably the body also attacks deposits of various kinds, microrganisms and tumors just to use these materials as nutrients for the normal life processes, and thereby directly tidy away disease factors.

Probably also the cure makes a biochemical environment in the body that ease the work of the immune system in various ways.

The attitude of the medial community and health authorities towards these cures

Mainstream doctors, health institutions and medical scientists generally turn their head away from these cures, and refuce to investigate the claims scientifically. Therefore it is difficult to find medical litterature from official medical institutions that can confirm the claims. However, it is also impossible to find scientific reports that negates the claims made by the proponents of the cures and patients having taken these cures.

However, some mainstrtream  medical experts nevertheless have taken the courage to investigate the claims by following a group of patients. This happened in Sweeden and in Norway in the 1970ies-1980ies. The reports from these prodjects condluded that the cures were very effective against chronic diseases like rehumatism, allargy and chronic infections. Cancer patients were not investigated through the projects. They even recomended that such cures should be a intergral part of the public health service.

Their reports and their recomendations were totally ignored by the rest of the medical estblishment and the health authorities. Apparently their report did not give the negative conclutions that the establishment had hoped for.

Examples of radical diet cures and sanatoriums offering such cures

Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner (August 22, 1867 – January 24, 1939) was a Swiss physician and a pioneer in nutritional research. At his sanatorium in Zürich, a balanced diet of raw vegetables, nuts and fruit was used as a means to heal patients, contrary to the beliefs commonly held at the end of the 19th century.

But not only controlled nutrition, but also spartan physical discipline were part of his ideas. At his sanatorium, the patients had to follow a somewhat monastic daily schedule including early bedtime (21:00), physical training and active gardening work.

The sanatorium of Bircher-Benner is still in full work  and offers treatment according to the traditions initiated by the pioner.

In parallel to Bircher-Benner in Europe, John Harvey Kellogg worked in the U.S. and followed another, but somehow similar theory of the healthy diet. Enemas was a very prominent part of his approach.

Ann Wigmore is another pioner establishing a diet cure tradition. In her approach a fasting period where one drinks juice from wheat grass spouts, as well as enemas made of  the same juice are important ingredients. Her institution, The Mansion is still in work, and her approach of "wheat grass fasting" is used by many others around the world.

Spinach is a food sort used as an element in many vegetarian diet cures.