Researchers have found that Vitamin D and marine omega-3 fatty acids, also known as fish oil, are not effective at reducing systemic inflammation. The study, published in the journal Clinical Chemistry is an analysis of the Vitamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL (VITAL) by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital in the UK. "People commonly think that these supplements can prevent inflammatory diseases, but when a patient asks their doctor, 'Should I take this supplement? "Doctors often don't know what to advise because there haven't been large scale clinical trials.
VITAL provides a large dataset to address these questions," said an author. The VITAL study is a random, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in which researchers tested the effects of supplements of vitamin D (2000 IU/day), omega 3s (1 gm/day) or both. For this analysis, they tested levels of three known biomarkers of…
