{"id":288,"date":"2009-04-02T07:57:08","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T14:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=288"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:30:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:30:33","slug":"chitosan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/chitosan\/","title":{"rendered":"Chitosan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chitosan is\u00a0a material derived from shellfish exoskeletons\u00a0with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cool.conservation-us.org\/coolaic\/jaic\/articles\/jaic41-03-003_2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">industrial<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chbe.umd.edu\/news\/news_story.php?id=3198\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">biomedical<\/a> and agricultural applications.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also used as a &#8220;fat-binding&#8221; agent in diet supplements, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/aj\/formerly_published.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">studies have shown that it has little effect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is limited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/7787292\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">animal<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/12591545\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">human<\/a> research that suggests a combination of chitosan\u00a0and Vitamin C\u00a0enhances excretion of dietary fat, but this combination has not been tested for weight loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chitosan is\u00a0a material derived from shellfish exoskeletons\u00a0with\u00a0industrial, biomedical and agricultural applications.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also used as a &#8220;fat-binding&#8221; agent in diet supplements, but studies have shown that it has [&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":[252,354,355,423,427,982],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"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=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}