“Fish Oil is a Miracle from God.”
Melissa, one of our readers, wrote in to tell us how this heaven-sent health supplement was her salvation from ADHD:
I’ve suffered serious depression and ADHD since I was a teenager. Of course, all my life, my diet was junk food, fast food, comfort food… I’ve tried Ritalin, Paxil, Prozac and none have helped. I decided, since reading some research on Omega-3’s to go ahead and try changing my diet to add more tuna, salmon, and once in a while a can of sardines.
I noticed an immediate difference within days.. You know, over the years, I believe I’ve really deprived my body of what it needs, but everyone’s body has different needs. I am just happy to have found them out. Fish Oil is a miracle from God.
Thanks for your story, Melissa! You’re not the only one that thinks fish oil is a miracle. Dr. Barry Sears, founder of the Zone Diet, said that, “High-dose pharmaceutical grade fish oil is as close to a medical miracle as we will see in the 21st century!”
Others inspired by this story can read more on this site about using fish oil to treat ADD/ADHD as well as using fish oil to treat depression.
i try to find something at google.com and take it on your site…thanks
my granson is 12 years old and had adhd, we have started him on amega 8 fish oil and pray that we will soon see an inprovement,he has been on the treatment 10 days, how long do you think it will be before we see an inprovement, p mills.
I like my ADHD just the way it is!! Thank you sir!
I have been extremely depressed; I have felt as bad as I did this morning. I was preparing some vegetables for a Marinara sauce, but I felt so down I thought to myself that I might just prefer to be dead. I decided that I might as well go back to bed.
Sometimes when I’m not feeling well, I try a vitamin from my Longaberger pill basket, so before going upstairs, I looked for my multiples, only to discover that my daughter had purloined them for herself.
Desperate to try something, anything, I picked out a bottle of fish oil capsules that had been sitting there for several months, ever since I bought them on a whim. I thought to myself: What the heck, and I took one.
Amazingly, I soon felt human again. I’d say it happened within half an hour of taking the fish oil. I couldn’t belive it. I had no idea fish oil could alleviate depression — and it happened so quickly!
I ended up shampooing all the carpets, reorganizing the back porch, and vacuuming the basement.
This evening, I decided to check out fish oil on the internet to see if it can indeed treat depression; I found your website.
I’m going to continue with the fish oil. I’ve never experienced anything so close to a miraclous recovery.
I just noticed that I misspelled believe. Sorry. BELIEVE!
I had struggled with “clinical depression” for over ten years, starting at age 25. I alternately tried Prozac and St. John’s Wort. Although both gave me some relief from my depression, I hated the side effects and eventually quit taking both. When I was in my late 30s, I became pregnant and started taking fish oil, as I had read somewhere that it might help the fetus. After approximately two weeks, I started feeling down right giddy! This continued for several days (longer than any previous “manic” eppisode I had experienced, not to mention that I simply felt normal for the first time in over ten years) and I started trying to think what I was doing differently. The only thing I could think of was the daily fish oil! I asked my OBGYN and my family doc whether they had ever heard of fish oil for depression, but they looked at me as though I’d lost my mind (this was in the mid to late 90s). Withing months of my inadvertant discovery, I believe it was Time magazine that had a cover story on fish oil’s ability to relieve clinical depression. Needless to say, I’ve stuck with the fish oil and have never again had any serious bouts of depression. It was a miracle from God for me.
Soon our children will be safe from those dangerous drug.
Fish oil really is amazing. I am 60 years old and suffered from stiffening and painful arthritis for years especially in the winter. After taking fish oil for about a year now I have noticed how I no longer have the pain and stiffness. This winter has been very cold and still no pain. I also have more energy and am much more alert. I cannot say enough for the fish oil. It is grossly under advertised by the media. It is also relatively inexpensive compared to other vitamins and minerals.
I searched google for muscle and joint pain with cold perspiration and ended up with the unpopular disease called fibromyalgia. It’s where I learned of fish oil as an alternative to curing this ailment. I hurried to a nearby health store and bought fish oil. I felt the effect in an hour. The pain subsided plus…I felt happy, I mean I am not feeling lonely the way I felt before! This fish oil is a treasure that I discovered.
I recently picked up a copy of Sears’ book and started to give fish oil a shot. My story is similar to Melissa’s, as I too started getting ADD type symptoms and depression as a teenager, and as an adult I couldn’t quite figure it out until I read his book. These symptoms came on at 13 and that was the time I started drinking alcohol. When I read in Omega RX Zone that alcohol depletes DHA stores I found my connection. Within a few days of taking the fish oil at higher doses (tablespoon) my depression was gone and within a week my ADD symptoms were fading - I also had social phobia, which is related to learning disorders, and now that is gone too.
Moral of the story? Don’t start drinking so young and make sure you get your fish oil! The great news is that these brain disorders I had were reversible.
I had suffered from Bi-polar depression all of my life. About 5 years ago I had admitted myself into a mental hospital for help, I was having mania. I was taking all kinds of perscription medications and none of them would work except for the sometimes little bit of relief that I found from Xanax or Valium. I have a friend that I have known for almost 18 years, they told me about some things that they had read on fish oil supplements and that I should give them a try to see if they would help me, I did and I no longer suffer from Bi-polar disorder, I haven’t had any symptoms since about three months after I started on the supplements, I never miss a dose. Someone said it is a miracle food from God, ” it really is”.
I am a normal person with no type of clinical depression. I have always enjoyed fish and I’ve always worried that I didn’t get enough Omega-3’s in my diet to be sufficient for my brain. I bought a bottle of NatureMade Fish Oil today, and after only one pill, I’ve noticed a strong change in my mental clarity, energy, mood, and stamina. The positive effects of this fish oil seem to be similar to adderall or any other stimulant, but there is no crash! Maybe that’s why it works for ADHD. It’s a shame that more people don’t know about this stuff, but also it’s kind of good, because if everyone was taking it, I wouldn’t feel so powerful!
Here is my story in nut shell. I am 32 years old and have had several problems regarding my mood, At times I felt like I really was going to lose it. I had adhd, pmdd,serious issues going on that I didn’t want to share with anyone. I am quite active and eat very well. I’ve tried everything out there and found no solution, until…… FISH OIL!!!!! Yes, I do believe it is a mircale from God. I actually finish what I start now, I was a happy person before, even happier now I don’t have anxiety anymore it’s AMAZING!!