Should be studying for my neuro test, but got this email from examine.com and couldn't resist reading through it.
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The multi-billion dollar fish oil industry is a behemoth, and there are many hundreds of studies analyzing fish oil uses and mechanisms.
Lost in all those studies is an important question: do the main fatty acids in fish oil (EPA and DHA) have different effects on inflammation and other cardiovascular disease markers? This meta-analysis looked at all the existing data.
https://www.acefitness.org/prosourcearticle/6042/fish-oil-showdown-anti-inflammatory-effects/Curious on others thoughts on fish oils in general, but also the difference between EPA and DHA.
Obviously with my ulcerative colitis and all of the inflammation I get, studies dealing with inflammation always grab my attention.
Full text if you want to read through it all.
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2016/06/01/ajcn.116.131896.full.pdf%20htmlThis post was edited by Braxton11 on Sep 28 2016 12:38pm