{"id":170,"date":"2022-09-13T10:54:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/index.php\/2021\/06\/22\/eicosapentaenoic-acid-protects-against-skin-cancer\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:54:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:54:08","slug":"eicosapentaenoic-acid-protects-against-skin-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/eicosapentaenoic-acid-protects-against-skin-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Eicosapentaenoic acid protects against skin cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>In this study, omega-3 fatty acids were evaluated for their protective effect against skin cancer induced by sunlight, i.e. ultraviolet radiation. The study included 42 healthy participants who were given 4 g daily of purified omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, eicosapentaenoic acid, (EPA) or monounsaturated, oleic acid, for 3 months. Supplementation of the omega-3 fatty acid eicosapentaenoic acid reduced markers of DNA damage, thus indicating a beneficial effect of EPA in the protection of skin cancer. Further details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>D S Michaud,\u00a0D Spiegelman,\u00a0S K Clinton,\u00a0E B Rimm,\u00a0W C Willett,\u00a0E Giovannucci<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/12771037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary In this study, omega-3 fatty acids were evaluated for their protective effect against skin cancer induced by sunlight, i.e. ultraviolet radiation. The study included 42 healthy participants who were given 4 g daily of purified omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, eicosapentaenoic acid, (EPA) or monounsaturated, oleic acid, for 3 months. Supplementation of the omega-3 fatty&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5924,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/5924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}