{"id":250,"date":"2009-03-18T06:42:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T13:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/ecdysteroids.php"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:17:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:17:43","slug":"ecdysteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/ecdysteroids\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecdysteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ecdysteroids are steroid compounds\u00a0found in insects and a number of plants (phytoecdysteroids).\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC524647\/?tool=pubmed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to an extensive review<\/a>, \u201cthe metabolic fate of ecdysteroids in mammals, including humans, is only poorly known.\u201d They appear to be non-toxic and\u2014according to Eastern European\/Soviet research, may have modest growth-promoting effects in animals. Recent research suggests ecdysterones <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/action\/cookieAbsent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can increase protein synthesis in human and animal muscle cells<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18585021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">affect muscle fiber size in rats<\/a>, but more work will need to be done before they can be given an unequivocal \u201cthumbs up\u201d for building muscle or strength in humans.<\/p>\n<p>Most commercial ecdysteroid supplements use standardized extracts from Cyanotis vaga or Rhaponticum carthamoides.<\/p>\n<p>Ecdysteroids are frequently referred to as &#8220;ecdysterones,&#8221; although this is term is not widely used in the scientific literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecdysteroids are steroid compounds\u00a0found in insects and a number of plants (phytoecdysteroids).\u00a0 According to an extensive review, \u201cthe metabolic fate of ecdysteroids in mammals, including humans, is only [&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":[199,378,379,678,761],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"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=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}