Can fish oil help recovery from brain injury?

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Listening to the Ben Greenfield podcast this week and his guest was JJ Virgin a nutritionist and fitness expert. She was on the podcast primarily to talk about how to get amazing arms and legs (according to Ben she has the most impressively toned arms he's seen in his life). But what really stood out for me was the story of her son and how he recovered from a life-threatening brain injury sustained in a hit-and-run accident. The family gave him high doses of fish oil (Omega-3) and are convinced that this is what caused his successful recovery.

Read the story here:
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/18/health/fish-oil-recovery/

PubMed -Therapeutic use of omega-3 fatty acids in severe head trauma:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22867826

This article was updated on May 25, 2019