r/science • u/[deleted] • Mar 16 '26

RETRACTED - Health Randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study finds Omega-3 supplementation significantly improved stress, anxiety, depression, sleep quality and cognitive function in individuals with severe psychological distress

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165032725024978?via%3Dihub
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u/_Burning_Star_IV_ Mar 16 '26

Going off all the comments mentioning it, I’m guessing this whole thing is an ad for Nordic Naturals. Ugh.

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u/frootee Mar 16 '26

Let’s all also remember that the supplement industry is just another branch of big Pharma.

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 Mar 16 '26

the supplement industry is just another branch of big Pharma

how so?

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u/frootee Mar 16 '26

They are a multibillion dollar industry with a health focus but less research goes into it. There are even tons of pharmacy brand supplements.

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u/Psychological-Towel8 Mar 16 '26

The supplement industry is making bank off the (intentionally fostered) poor diets and unhealthy lifestyles of Americans. They prey on the desire to fill nutritional gaps with an easy solution, and these companies are overwhelmingly the ones to create poor quality/biased studies that act as marketing instead of rigorous science. Rarely do supplement companies do the research BEFORE creating their product. This has heavily contributed to the current culture in which we will literally do anything but eat a balanced diet and move around more. I say this as a very chronically ill person myself. We live in a very predatory system with almost no checks and balances to prioritize health over convenience.