{"id":246,"date":"2009-03-17T05:46:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T12:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/evening-primrose-oil.php"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:30:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:30:33","slug":"evening-primrose-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/evening-primrose-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Primrose Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A source of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/gamma-linolenic-acid-gla\/\" target=\"_blank\">gamma linolenic acid (GLA)<\/a> used in supplements (evening primrose oil is approx. 10% GLA).\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s used therapeutically <a href=\"http:\/\/umm.edu\/health\/medical\/altmed\/herb\/evening-primrose-oil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to treat eczema<\/a>.\u00a0Evening primrose oil is\u00a0also\u00a0touted\u00a0as an alternative treatment\u00a0for a number of other conditions, such as arthritis, multiple sclerosis, diabetic neuropathy, PMS and menopause &#8211; but evidence of its effectiveness for these conditions\u00a0is mixed and inconclusive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A source of gamma linolenic acid (GLA) used in supplements (evening primrose oil is approx. 10% GLA).\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s used therapeutically to treat eczema.\u00a0Evening primrose oil is\u00a0also\u00a0touted\u00a0as an alternative treatment\u00a0for [&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":[380,412,456,463,652,773],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}