DHA reduces serum markers of concussive injury in NFL players

Moe data on DHA and brain injury. - JR

Effect of Docosahexaenoic Acid on a Biomarker of Head Trauma in American Football

OLIVER, JONATHAN M.; JONES, MARGARET T.; KIRK, K. MICHELE; GABLE, DAVID A.; REPSHAS, JUSTIN T.; JOHNSON, TORIE A.; ANDRÉASSON, ULF; NORGREN, NIKLAS; BLENNOW, KAJ; ZETTERBERG, HENRIK

 This study provides novel data specific to the optimal dose of DHA for plasma and biomarker changes in American football athletes. Further, the data presented herein demonstrate that a season of American football is associated with some level of subconcussive injury, which results in a measurable increase in a marker of axonal damage. 

Most importantly, we report for the first time that supplemental DHA, irrespective of dose, may likely attenuate elevations in serum NFL coincident with those times in which an increased number and magnitude of head impacts typically occurs in American football athletes.

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