Can Fish Oil Add Years To Your Life?

The term fish oil supplement is growing its popularity like never before. People are so keen about this health supplement that manufactures now add fish oil to all kinds of food, even eggs and bread so that this will help them sell their products.

There have been number of researches that suggest that fish oil is the ultimate health elixir, good for heart, brain and bones, protects against cancer, back pain and even from eye problem.

When cardiologist in America looked through the previous twenty years of studies, they came to conclusion that fish oil reduces the risk of heart attack for those who have the risk of getting it because of the family history and therefore increasing the human lifespan. What we generally forget or overlook is that this type of therapy is quite cheap and are safe. A clinical study was conducted in Italy among the heart attack survivors; they were given fish oil supplement every day. To their surprise, they found that after four months their risk of dying was reduced by half.

There is much of the excitement about fish oil supplements which has centered on their effect on cognitive function- i.e. your thinking power. By taking fish oil fatty acid DHA has been shown to reduce the brain plaque formation which can lead to Alzheimer’s and Dementia, though the results were not conclusive.

There was another study done by one prestigious Medical School was found that Omega 3 helped with rheumatoid arthritis. According to the researchers Omega 3 efficiently ‘put the brakes’ on the overactive immune response that causes the disease. Also there are many people who take fish oil supplements for osteoarthritis and research appears to back this up.

Besides, there are many more cases where it has been seen that intake of fish oil supplement has proved beneficial health to great extent. But before taking any health supplement, it is advisable to consult your doctor.