Fish Oils Don’t Boost Brain Power
15th October 2013
Eric Ammann at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and colleagues analysed omega-3 levels in blood samples taken from 2000 women aged 60 to 80. Over six years, the women took tests that measured movement, speech and memory. No difference in cognition was found between women with high and low levels of omega-3 at the start of the study, nor in how quickly cognitive skills declined in people with consistently low or high omega-3 (Neurology, in press).
They do, however, reduce your triglycerides, so eat ’em up.