{"id":371,"date":"2009-04-25T19:35:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T02:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=371"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:40:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:40:20","slug":"gymnema-sylvestre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/gymnema-sylvestre\/","title":{"rendered":"Gymnema sylvestre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gymnema sylvestre is native to India, and its leaves are a traditional folk medicine for diabetes. Several studies in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/2259217?ordinalpos=87&amp;itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">humans<\/a> and animals have confirmed it can improve glucose control, possibly by inhibiting glucose uptake in the small intestine and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/11249615?ordinalpos=41&amp;itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enhancing insulin release<\/a>. It may even have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/16691318?ordinalpos=9&amp;itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">positive effects on lipid metabolism<\/a> and has potential for use in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2170951\/?tool=pubmed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">treating diabetes and obesity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/7733384?ordinalpos=1&amp;itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlusDrugs1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gymnema also seems to inhibit the ability to taste sweet or bitter<\/a> (studies proving this have been performed in large part on mice and rats, however).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gymnema sylvestre is native to India, and its leaves are a traditional folk medicine for diabetes. Several studies in humans and animals have confirmed it can improve glucose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[350,467,493,553,907],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371"}],"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=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}