Something Fishy
I encourage you intrepid Argonauts out there, wrestling with maintaining a daily fish oil regime, to check out this little graph:
You can read the short article on wired here. But the cliff notes are:
You can read the short article on wired here. But the cliff notes are:
- Guy decided to improve his mental processes by timing himself on a set of 100 random math problems every day. These were simple problems, like: 7 x 9 or 13 - 5.
- MRI studies have shown that just doing these type of problems daily, with time pressure, improves overall mental functioning.
- He improved a bit, but hit the typical training plateau after 90 days.
- Then he got curious about what effects fish oil might have.
- Looks like it started helping pretty quickly to break through the barrier and at 800mg of DHA the effects started really kicking in.
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