{"id":245,"date":"2009-03-16T12:24:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T19:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/gamma-linolenic-acid-gla.php"},"modified":"2015-02-13T08:30:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T13:30:37","slug":"gamma-linolenic-acid-gla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/gamma-linolenic-acid-gla\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamma Linolenic Acid (GLA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An omega-6 fatty acid found in evening primrose, borage, hemp and black currant seed oil.\u00a0 GLA is also formed naturally in the body from linoleic acid (LA).\u00a0 Unlike (LA-derived)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/arachidonic-acid\/\" target=\"_blank\">arachidonic acid (AA)<\/a>, however, GLA has anti-inflammatory activity.\u00a0 In the body, GLA is converted to dihomogamma-linolenic acid (DGLA) which <a href=\"http:\/\/umm.edu\/health\/medical\/altmed\/supplement\/gammalinolenic-acid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">competes with arachidonic acid<\/a>\u00a0and interferes with the formation of pro-inflammatory eicosanoids from it.\u00a0 In addition, <a href=\"http:\/\/ajcn.nutrition.org\/content\/77\/1\/37.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DGLA-derived eicosanoids, such as PGE<sub>1<\/sub>, also have anti-inflammatory effects<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An omega-6 fatty acid found in evening primrose, borage, hemp and black currant seed oil.\u00a0 GLA is also formed naturally in the body from linoleic acid (LA).\u00a0 Unlike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[118,188,200,344,412,456,463,504],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"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=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}