It turns out that the components contained in fish oil called DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) has long been noted to have anti-inflammatory effects or anti-inflammatory, but why is it so?
A study published in The FASEB Journal, showed that DHA is an important component in the production of a molecule beranama 'maresins', which serves to 'turn off inflammation' as mentioned by dr. Gerald Weissmann, MD, editor in chief of The FASEB Journal.
For this study, researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Karolinska Institute found that the type of white blood cell called 'macrophages' that converts DHA into maresins. Maresins then transform into macrophages macrophage inflammatory types of non-inflammatory type. At the beginning of this year has also published a journal that says that DHA can improve our immune system by increasing the activity of B cells, which is a type of white blood cell us.
We can be exposed to inflammatory almost every day that we are not aware of, which can be caused by food or the environment around us, such as cigarette smoke, pollution, or certain foods. Some also mentioned diseases caused by chronic inflammatory processes (long) such as cancer, diabetes mellitus, heart disease, and Alzheimer's disease, of the dangers of not?
Well, apart from the type of vitamin or supplement that we can consume it turns out is also very influential lifestyle to reduce inflammation in the body, such as exercising regularly, then start now try to possess a healthy lifestyle.
source: FASEB Journal, Harvard Medical School and the Karolinska Institute
