{"id":244,"date":"2009-03-15T08:48:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T15:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/alphalinolenic-acid.php"},"modified":"2015-02-16T12:31:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T17:31:02","slug":"alphalinolenic-acid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/alphalinolenic-acid\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha-Linolenic Acid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An omega-3 essential fatty acid found in sources such as flax, hemp, perilla and chia seeds\/oils.\u00a0 Alpha-linolenic acid is a precursor to the essential metabolites <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/eicosapentaenoic-acid-epa\/\" target=\"_blank\">EPA<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/docosahexaenoic-acid-dha\/\" target=\"_blank\">DHA<\/a>, although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.circ.ahajournals.org\/content\/111\/22\/2872.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conversion is often limited and inefficient<\/a>, due to factors such as gender and competition with (omega-6) linoleic acid &#8211; which is often oversupplied in the diet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An omega-3 essential fatty acid found in sources such as flax, hemp, perilla and chia seeds\/oils.\u00a0 Alpha-linolenic acid is a precursor to the essential metabolites EPA and DHA, [&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":[96,250,345,394,405,443,503,728,744],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"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=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}