Scientists are suggesting that depression is a result of inflammation

Re:Scientists are suggesting that depression is a result of ... by DiabloD3 on Sunday January 04, 2015 @08:43PM (#8836723)

Yes, the Omega 6 to Omega 3 ratio is the major mechanism (but not only) for the chronic inflammation caused by the modern diet, and yes, that has been pretty well proved.

But theres no major study (besides the submitted link) that I'm aware of that links high inflammation diet to depression, even though, frankly, it's pretty obvious that there is some major link between the two.

So, until the above mentioned study happened, it was pretty much just a large collection of n=1 experiments, where people ate strict Paleo and then, well, became supermen (I'm not actually sure how else to describe it; for some, it was absolutely miraculous).

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Re:Scientists are suggesting that depression is a result of ... by tjradcliffe on Sunday January 04, 2015 @10:29PM (#8837043)

Fortunately, unless you are an evolution-denialist, you know that human evolution adapted us to a very wide range of dietary factors, so within an extremely broad, shallow optimum pretty much any Omega 6/Omega 3 ratio will do. To argue otherwise would be to say that the human dietary optimum is narrow and deep, which is maximally implausible for an opportunistic hunter-gatherer-scavenger.

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