Why the inverted commas? We do not use them for "butter" or other fats?
Fish oil is just fat from fish. It is not a lot of good to build health unless taken in fair quantity with a high dose of Vit E. They work together. The fish oil's antioxidants (DHA and EPA) open gates which otherwise would result in inflammation occurring, they relax blood vessels and cell walls/membranes, but need VIt E to then effect repairs and actual healing. Together there can be a nice improvement in blood vessel wall elasticity to lower blood pressure and also intraglomerular pressure in the kidneys, along with repair of same if Vit E is plentiful.
The higher the rate of inflammation in the body, the hiigher the amount of antioxidant is needed. I use 6 caps of fish oil a day wit 1000 IU of Vit E a day for example. Other antioxidants also are helpfl to raise the total anti-inflammatory load, to offset any inadvisable inflammatory foods, for a net anti-inflammatory effect - the more the better.
But fish oil is not some kind of substitute for statins. (It can help raise HDL but statins are taken to lower LDL not to raise HDL). Better options instead of statins are Moducare (plant cholesterol), which is preferentially absorbed over animal cholesterol and which has the effect of lowering the kind of cholesterol that is not so good for us as is produced internally, such as by central obesity metabolic process. Food based cholesterol, such as in egg, is beneficial cholesterol, but which statins mess with most - and which we need for the brain to function well.
So statins will accellerate brain Dysfunction. Horrid dangerous junk IMO.
Prevention of Alzheimers has far more nutritional needs than just he ratio of inflamamtory to anti-inflamamtory diet items. All nutritents especially nerve nutrients (magnesium and B6 etc) need to be adequate.
My favorite case of dementia that came my way was that of a cat iin South Africa. She was about 17 yrs old when she lost her memory for where things were. She cry - esp at night - pitifully as she coud not find her food, litter or owner. So her owner would get out of bed and show her again where things were, and she'd be okay a while, not enough for much sleep by owner. Her diet was changed to be more nutritionally complete. Her simillimum was Bar-c, and it took a couple weeks to get to the stage where she got through the night without crying becasue she was "lost", and after a month later she was doing just fine again. She passed on at age 22 at which time the symptoms returned though not badly, she got "lost" once in a while.
Namaste,
Irene
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