{"id":211,"date":"2009-02-27T16:12:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T23:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/banaba.php"},"modified":"2015-03-09T13:49:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T17:49:09","slug":"banaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/banaba\/","title":{"rendered":"Banaba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the common name for\u00a0Lagerstroemia speciosa, a tree native to Southeast Asia. The leaves have been used in traditional medicine in the Phillipines as a treatment for diabetes. As it turns out, the leaves are high in corosolic acid, which has been shown to improve glucose control in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/12787964\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">human<\/a> and animal studies. It appears to do this by <a href=\"http:\/\/jn.nutrition.org\/content\/131\/9\/2242.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stimulating glucose uptake<\/a> in muscle cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the common name for\u00a0Lagerstroemia speciosa, a tree native to Southeast Asia. The leaves have been used in traditional medicine in the Phillipines as a treatment for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[155,304,350,467,602],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"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=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1950,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/1950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}