{"id":215,"date":"2009-02-27T17:33:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T00:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/betasitosterol.php"},"modified":"2015-02-13T08:26:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T13:26:01","slug":"betasitosterol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/betasitosterol\/","title":{"rendered":"Beta-Sitosterol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0plant compound with a structure similar to cholesterol. It has therapeutic uses for <a href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/content\/14\/1\/77.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reducing serum cholesterol<\/a> and treating the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/10796740?ordinalpos=12&amp;itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">symptoms of benign protstatic hyperplasia<\/a> (enlarged prostate).<\/p>\n<p>Beta-sitosterol is one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18845709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plant sterols used in functional foods <\/a>designed to reduce serum cholesterol (margarine, yogurt).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0plant compound with a structure similar to cholesterol. It has therapeutic uses for reducing serum cholesterol and treating the symptoms of benign protstatic hyperplasia (enlarged prostate). Beta-sitosterol is [&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":[159,172,256,391],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"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=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}