{"id":241,"date":"2009-03-15T08:33:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T15:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2015-02-23T16:09:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T21:09:25","slug":"eicosapentaenoic-acid-epa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/eicosapentaenoic-acid-epa\/","title":{"rendered":"Eicosapentaenoic Acid (EPA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An omega-3 fatty acid produced in the body from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/alphalinolenic-acid\/\" target=\"_blank\">alpha-linolenic acid<\/a>.\u00a0 Fatty fish, fish oil and\u00a0microalgae are dietary sources of pre-formed EPA.\u00a0 EPA is incorporated into cell membrane phospholipids, and serves as a precursor to anti-inflammatory eicosanoids such as PGE<sub>3<\/sub> and\u00a0PGF<sub>3<\/sub>&#8230;as such EPA-derived eicosanoids mediate the inflammatory effects of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/arachidonic-acid\/\" target=\"_blank\">arachidonic acid<\/a>-derived, pro-inflammatory eicosanoids.<\/p>\n<p>EPA and its metabolite, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/docosahexaenoic-acid-dha\/\" target=\"_blank\">docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)<\/a>,\u00a0play important roles in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/19037880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lipid metabolism<\/a>, neurological development\/health and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18160071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disease prevention<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An omega-3 fatty acid produced in the body from alpha-linolenic acid.\u00a0 Fatty fish, fish oil and\u00a0microalgae are dietary sources of pre-formed EPA.\u00a0 EPA is incorporated into cell membrane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[96,118,369,383,384,394,439,614],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}