{"id":117,"date":"2009-01-09T07:46:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T14:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/urtica-dioica.php"},"modified":"2009-01-09T07:46:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T14:46:35","slug":"urtica-dioica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/urtica-dioica\/","title":{"rendered":"Urtica dioica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as Stinging Nettle. Urtica dioica has been used as a folk medicine for centuries. Stinging nettle extracts are also used as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17509841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an alternative therapy for benign prostatic hyperplasia<\/a> (BPH, or enlarged prostate).<\/p>\n<p>Cell culture experiments have shown that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/9434605\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Urtica extracts can inhibit the binding activity of SHBG<\/a> (sex hormone binding globulin). SHBG binds to testosterone, and high levels limit the amount of free testosterone able to interact with the appropriate receptors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Urtica extracts are also used in various bodybuilding\/testosterone-boosting supplements, although no human studies have been done to demonstrate that a)\u00a0SHBG binding\u00a0is the mechanism for\u00a0Urtica&#8217;s effects on BPH; or b) Urtica extracts actually increase free testosterone in humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as Stinging Nettle. Urtica dioica has been used as a folk medicine for centuries. Stinging nettle extracts are also used as an alternative therapy for benign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[159,201,452,509,806,875,894,921,961],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}