Many of us IBDers find fish oil very helpful for UC. Not everybody of course, because everyone is different, but you will see fish oil in many of our signatures. It helps balance our omega-3s and also helps with arthritis and depression.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1312317CONCLUSIONS: Four months of diet supplementation with fish oil in patients with inflammatory bowel disease resulted in reductions in rectal dialysate leukotriene B4 levels, improvements in histologic findings, and weight gain.www.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2011-09-20/army-studies-fish-oil-reduce-suicides/50483074/1Research published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry last month showed that men in the service with low levels of an omega-3 fatty acid known as docosahexaenoic acid, or DHA, were 62% more likely to commit suicide.