The Fish Oil That Changed my Life

I admit I was always a sceptic.

Jessie London
4 min readDec 31, 2022
The Fish Oil That Changed my Life

The power of supplements is a much-contested topic. Many in the medical profession claim that there’s no evidence of success, yet there are thousands of anecdotal accounts of life-changing effects.

I admit I was always a supplement sceptic.

When I read in the local newspaper that a supplement company was funding a trial in my county that involved giving supplements to school children, I was intrigued:

Education chiefs are launching the unusual back-to-school initiative today, which they believe could result in record GCSE results next summer.

This isn’t something that really happens in the UK — at least not that I’d heard of before. The article was a few years old already when I came across it online. The trial was over and done with. I wanted to dig a little deeper and understand what had been done and what the results of the trial were.

The article headline was: Schools in Fish Supplement Experiment and outlined how in the trial, schools would give these tablets to pupils and measure performance, behaviour etc. I’ve included links to the article for you at the bottom.

I was surprised to find out about this trial happening right on my own doorstep. I was also surprised by the…

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Jessie London

Full-time Author & Writer of fiction & fact. British lady who loves tea with milk and bland biscuits.