The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
And that for people that are already taking antidepressants, that supplementing with one, to two, to three grams of EPA essential fatty acids can actually allow a lower dose of antidepressant treatment to be used, and still be effective.
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the data, by my read, are remarkable. People that take these things in sufficient doses, meaning the EPAs, are able to get by with much lower dosages of SSRIs for depression relief or, in some cases, to come off their SSRIs completely or avoid going on antidepressant medication.
supplementation with omega 3 fatty acids of at this one gram or more of EPA specifically, so getting above that one gram threshold, as high as three grams per day of the EPA has allowed people to take lower doses of SSRIs and still keep their mood in a place that's beneficial for them.
Also functions as an antidepressant; equally good, believe it or not, in clinical trials to SSRIs once one gets over the one or basically two grams per day of the EPA.
The threshold level seems to be about one gram, a thousand milligrams of EPA.