Study--Fish Oil Can Help Arhythmias

Found this today. The study is a little old (March 08), but some of you may not have heard about it.

The study is a little small, but compelling. It looks so promising I hope they do a 1000 patient study soon. In the mean time, it appears that fish oil is good for your arrhythmias!

http://www.healthcentral.com/heart-disease/news-250244-66.html


4 Comments

Fish Oil

by Nim Rod - 2008-10-30 11:10:59

In '05 I had a doctor to recommend niacin for an irregular heart beat and when that turned me as red as a beet, he changed it to fish oil capsules. I had two problems with the fish oil. One was I smelled so much like dead fish that my wife had me sleeping in the garage and all of the cats in the neighborhood were waiting for me to come out each day. They wanted to lick my hands, arms and legs. I decided enough was enough so I still have the irregular heart beat, but I don't smell fishy anymore, I don't think.

Flaxseed Oil

by candi51 - 2008-10-31 04:10:09

Flaxseed Oil is another alternative to fish oils with similar results. I can't stomach the fish stuff.
I get mine through Puritan's Pride but most stores and pharmacies have it.

NOW Brand Salmon Oil

by sdjones - 2008-10-31 07:10:11

Hello Everyone!

I wanted to tell you that the only thing that has helped me with my constant irregular heart beats was the NOW Brand Salmon Oil....no fishy taste and each capsule is 1000 mg. I personally take 6-8 of them a day and after about three weeks my problem finally went away and I didn't have to add to the list of my prescriptions, which is a blessing.

I have 3rd Degree Heart Block. Another thing that I have noticed since being on the fish oil for about 1 year is that the percentages are dropping at my PM interrogations. My own pacemakers are running my heart more often. I was at 100% ventricular and 25% atrial when they put the PM in June 12, 2007....at my interrogation this August I was at 81% ventricular and 14% atrial. I have gone from complete heart block to intermittant heart block, which is good news to my ears!

I am going to try two other natural products to help my health along and I will report back to you if I see results....the first one is called Dr. Christopher's Hawthorne Berry Heart Syrup and the other is marine phytoplankton from UMAC-CORE. I ordered them today (October 31, 2008) and I have my next interrogation in April 2009, so, that gives them plenty of time to see if they are going to help or not.

Ya'll take care.

Posted this last Spring, Might help here

by Pete K - 2008-10-31 11:10:21

Just thought I would like to post this again as I think it would help quite a few folks who might not have seen it before:

I do quite a bit of studying on the chemical workings and nutritional needs of the heart and body and just thought this info might be helpful to some. This is taken from a book titled "Reverse Heart Desease Now" written by a "new cardiologist" named Dr. Stephen T. Sinatra:
"Every cardiologist should be interested in the following benefits of fish oil:

Decreases Lp(a), triglycerides, and blood pressure

Increases HDL

Reduces arterial wall inflammation

Improves endothelial function

Makes blood less stickier and less likely to form clots

Stabilizes and maybe even reverses plaque, and prevents plaque rupture

Soothes heart rate variability, which counteracts arrhythmias

Contributes to the bioenergy of the heart muscle

Fish oil helps control eicosanoids, tiny, hormonelike substances produced by all your cells. these chemicals have a regulatory influence on inflammatory and immune responses, the integrity of blood vessels, and much, much more. Just like cholesterol, some eicosanoids are considered good and others bad.
The good news: you exert a good deal of control over eicosanoids by what you eat. Foods such as partially hydrogenated fats (trans fats ) and refined carbohydrates trigger the production of harmful eicosanoids and promote inflammation. Omaega-3s benefit just about every tissue in the body.
Fish oil is rpeventive and terapeutic for all arrhythmias. Atrial fibrillation patients on fish oil leave the hospital sooner following bypass surgery and are at reduced risk for bypass graft closure. They can walk farther on a treadmill test. And those who are taking nitroglycerin need less of it.
We have prescribed fish oil aggressively to patients for more than a decade. Every patient with plaque gets fish oil. They do better. And it is an incredibly nontoxic substance."

Anyone interested in finding the book, I've found that Amazon.com has paperback copies of it.

Pete


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