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Source: News Target
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 the over-the-counter product OmegaBrite 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, called OmegaBrite, 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 OmegaBrite," 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 before creating
OmegaBrite. "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.
Information about OmegaBrite can be found at http://www.omegabrite.com
NewsTarget has no financial relationship whatsoever with OmegaBrite (or
any nutritional supplement company) and earns nothing from sales of this
product.
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