To eat more fish or to take supplements of omega 3 could reduce the symptoms of the depression at the aged people.
It is the conclusion of a survey française1 led by 1 390 aged people, living in the region of Bordeaux. The researchers measured the rates of blood omega 3 of the participants and valued their psychological state with the help of different tests. The participants also answered a questionnaire on their food habits.
According to the results, the aged people who displayed a weak concentration of omega 3 in blood endured sharper depressive symptoms than those that had more elevated blood rates.
One of the two omega 3 fatty acids of navy origin, the acidic eicosapentaenoic (EPA), especially kept the attention of the main searcher of the survey, the Dr. Pascale Barberger-Cake. "Strong rates of AEP are associated to a least frequency of the symptoms," she / it specifies.
More again, the blood rates were raised in AEP associated to depressive symptoms less pronounced at the people who took some antidepressants. What lets believe that the omega 3 could make more efficient the antidepressant medicines.
This survey does not permit to explain the mechanism by which the omega 3 would reduce the intensity of the symptoms of the depression. But the Dr. Barberger-Cake noted that the topics that suffered little or bigger consumers of fish were not of depression that the autres2.
"As the aged people synthesize the omega 3 less well, to consume more fat fish is of as much more cautious," she / it concludes.
The depression keys from 8% to 16% of the aged people, to different degrees, in the Western societies.
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