The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Shifting that omega-3 omega-6 ratio did a couple things. First of all, increasing the amount of EPA shifted the ratio. So it was higher omega-3 to omega-6 ratio, which was good, lowered the inflammation markers, and then allowed antidepressants to have their effect, even at low doses. And here's the really interesting thing. It worked by increasing heart rate variability
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So it's incredible that there's a way that one can use the gut, the ingestion of more of these EPA's, either through food or supplementation to increase rate variability and thereby to improve symptoms, meaning reduce symptoms of depression, and to even make low levels of antidepressants that wouldn't otherwise work work.