Another Benefit of Fish Oil : Lower Breast Cancer Risk
Well, it looks like the uber champ of supplements, which also happens to enjoy huge commercial popularity and multiple studies being done on it’s potential health benefits, fish oil, has achieved yet another possible merit when it comes to preventive health. That new merit is a link to reduced risk of breast cancer in women ages 50 to 76 who took a fish oil supplement every day.
The study was done in comparison to several other popular herbal supplements that are sometimes equated with “female” health, and it was found that fish oil was the only common denominator when it came to breast cancer prevention. One of them was black cohosh, which was honestly the only one I saw on the list that I recognized as having potential female health benefits, which has been used in menopause remedies and things like that for women.
The others I either did not recognize, or never knew they were used in conjunction with breast health or female health.
The study was admittedly somewhat flawed though, and the researchers who commissioned this study would like a more random one to be done so that more conclusive findings can be reported, but it still shows that there may be a correlation between fish oil and reduced breast cancer occurence.
And hey, if you ask me, who cares, there have already been multiple studies proving the benefits of taking omega 3 fat supplements. I take them every day, but I never took them for the breast cancer prevention aspect, more as an overall preventive health supplement. I also feel that my brain functions better when I’m getting a lot of fish oil in my diet, maybe that’s just in my head, but hey, that’s how I feel!
And we do know that fish is healthy for you, so preferably most health professionals recommend getting your omega 3′s through diet like fish, walnuts, almonds, avocados and other food sources as they are the best and most complete nature has to offer. But of course we don’t all have the time or inclination to make sure we’re getting tons of these foods in our diet on a daily basis, so it doesn’t hurt to add a supplementation of omega 3′s, whether plant or animal based, to your diet.
