{"id":242,"date":"2009-03-15T08:34:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T15:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/docosahexaenoic-acid-dha.php"},"modified":"2015-02-23T16:09:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T21:09:26","slug":"docosahexaenoic-acid-dha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/docosahexaenoic-acid-dha\/","title":{"rendered":"Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An omega-3 fatty acid produced in the body from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/eicosapentaenoic-acid-epa\/\" target=\"_blank\">eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA)<\/a> &#8211; a metabolite of the essential fatty acid alpha-linolenic acid. Fatty fish, fish oil and\u00a0microalgae are dietary sources of pre-formed DHA. DHA is the most abundant essential fatty acid in the brain and is\u00a0a precursor for the docosanoids, a series of hormone-like signalling molecules.<\/p>\n<p>DHA\u00a0and EPA play 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 eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) &#8211; a metabolite of the essential fatty acid alpha-linolenic acid. Fatty fish, fish oil and\u00a0microalgae are [&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":[118,203,345,369,373,374,394,439,614],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"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=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}