date:Aug 25, 2012
rs recruited ten men with normal blood lipid levels and ten men with abnormal lipid levels (dyslipidemic), and provided them with 2.7 grams per day of fish oil (Dr. Loges + Co. GmbH) for 12 weeks. The daily EPA and DHA dose was 1.56 and 1.14 grams, respectively.
Gene expression analysis revealed that both groups displayed an increase in expression of antioxidative enzymes and a decrease in the expression of pro-oxidative enzymes.
It appears that n-3 PUFAs not only upregulates antioxidative enz