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.
the products that seem to work to actually have an effect on depressive symptoms are ones that are richer in EPA and the DHA and you know when so you look at a meta-analysis like a compilation of lots of different studies the positive ones are the ones that are richer in EPA
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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I think what's happening is EPA is probably providing some unique and anti-inflammatory effects in in the brain circulation that's affecting because we don't understand depression at all but it's somehow affecting the expression of depressive symptoms like DHA doesn't