{"id":251,"date":"2009-03-18T07:06:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T14:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/20hydroxyecdysone.php"},"modified":"2015-02-16T12:31:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T17:31:31","slug":"20hydroxyecdysone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/20hydroxyecdysone\/","title":{"rendered":"20-Hydroxyecdysone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ecdysteroid shown to have modest, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/8698114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growth-promoting<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18585021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">muscle-building effects<\/a> in animal experiments. 20-hydroxyecdysone (or plant extracts standardized for 20-hydroxyecdysone)\u00a0is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC524647\/?tool=pubmed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">non-toxic<\/a>, and\u00a0used in a variety of bodybuilding supplements, but whether it actually helps increase muscle mass and strength in humans is unknown.\u00a0 A small, 2006 study on resistance-trained males taking a standardized, Polypodium vulgare\/Suma root\u00a0extract showed no effect at the dose administered.<\/p>\n<p>Supplements containing 20-hydroxyecdysone (CAS 5289-74-7)\u00a0use a variety of synonyms, including 20-beta-hydroxyecdysterone, beta-ecdysterone, beta-ecdysone, 20-hydroxy-ecdysterone, 20-beta-hydroxy ecdysone,\u00a0\u00a0hydroxyecdysone, ecdysterone, and ecdisten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ecdysteroid shown to have modest, growth-promoting and\u00a0muscle-building effects in animal experiments. 20-hydroxyecdysone (or plant extracts standardized for 20-hydroxyecdysone)\u00a0is non-toxic, and\u00a0used in a variety of bodybuilding supplements, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[25,199,377,379,679],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251"}],"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=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}