{"id":265,"date":"2017-02-07T06:34:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T06:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=265"},"modified":"2017-02-13T06:36:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T06:36:59","slug":"fish-oil-supplements-is-it-useful-or-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"Fish Oil Supplements: Is it Useful or Useless?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>A new study found taking fish oil supplements ineffective in preventing the surgically-produced blood vessel access points used for dialyzer treatments from failing. This sounds niche, but unlike other fish oil studies we\u2019ve reported on, blood vessels are the exact wheelhouse scientists thought taking fish oil supplements would make a difference in. The research highlights a continuing trend: Despite their popularity, fish oil pills and their so-called omega-3 fatty acids don\u2019t seem to be holding up to scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on the preponderance of the evidence,\u201d wrote Gregory Curfman, editor in chief of Harvard Medical School\u2019s Harvard Health Letter for the Journal of the American Medical Association, \u201cthere is the reason for skepticism that omega-3 fatty acid supplementation is effective\u201d in preventing cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n<p>The latest study to reach that conclusion was simple. The researchers wanted to see if fish oil would prevent fistula failure\u2014failure of holes surgically created to access blood vessels that are clogging up. Fistula failure is one of the main causes of death in dialysis patients, who need their blood routinely filtered to remove waste, the scientists wrote in their paper published in this month\u2019s Journal of the American Medical Association. The team randomized 576 patients to receive either a placebo or fish oil for twelve weeks after receiving their fistula. Some patients also received aspirin, but it didn\u2019t matter. There was little difference between the groups in the number of failing fistulae.<\/p>\n<p>So, what\u2019s next for you fish oil guzzlers? Scientists behind another clinical trial called VITAL, scheduled for completion in December 2017, are giving fish oil and vitamin D supplements to over 25,000 people in order to check whether the two, either separately or in tandem, reduce a person\u2019s likelihood of developing cancer and other diseases. Until then, Curfman still recommended trying to eat fish at least two to three times a week, on top of the standard recommendations: Exercise, eating healthily and not smoking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/more-evidence-that-fish-oil-supplements-might-be-useles-1792088700\">Gizmodo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study found taking fish oil supplements ineffective in preventing the surgically-produced blood vessel access points used for dialyzer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[10,13,15],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-medicine","category-vitamins-supplements","tag-alternative-medicine","tag-articles","tag-supplements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}