If you're a healthy American adult eating a lot of certain vegetable oil fats (n-6), getting more fish oil fats (EPA and DHA) seems to help reduce signs of inflammation in your body. But if you're not eating much of those vegetable oil fats, the fish oil doesn't make much difference.

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Habitual Dietary Intake of n-3 and n-6 Fatty Acids in Relation to Inflammatory Markers Among US Men and Women

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2003 Jul 15

The study shows that when people eat more omega-6 fats, the anti-inflammatory benefits of omega-3s (like EPA and DHA) are stronger, not weaker — so omega-6s don’t cancel out the good effects.

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Habitual Dietary Intake of n-3 and n-6 Fatty Acids in Relation to Inflammatory Markers Among US Men and Women

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DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000079224.46084.C2

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