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Fish Oil and Intelligence
Fish oil is one of the two supplements that I recommend to most of my patients.
There are many reasons for this, but today I'll mention the benefits of fish oil for intelligence.
The BBC recently reported on a very small but remarkable study of children who were given fish oil supplements. The children took tests before they started taking the fish oil and again at the end of three months.
During the study, researchers found that the children's reading age increased by a year, their handwriting became more legible and accurate, and they paid more attention in class. And brain scans revealed that their levels of a chemical called N-Acetylaspartate (NAA) drastically increased. This is the brain chemical linked to the growth of nerve fibers.
To put this in perspective, in three months, these children had as much brain growth as would normally be seen in three years!
These results make me think that fish oil should be given to every child with ADD or ADHD.
Your take-away? Be sure to take adequate amounts of fish oils to improve your brain!
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