Taking fish oil for arthritis has been recommended for hundreds of years. Recently, researchers have established that the oils do have anti-inflammatory activity. This is due primarily to the omega-3 content, but other factors are involved, as well.
Omega3s are what we call a group of essential fatty acids. There are two groups of fats that are essential to the human diet; omega6 and 3. They are necessary for the body to make a wide variety of molecules that perform numerous functions in the human body.
Many of the molecules have anti-inflammatory …