{"id":460,"date":"2009-05-21T15:15:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T22:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:40:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:40:17","slug":"diosgenin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/diosgenin\/","title":{"rendered":"Diosgenin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diosgenin is a plant steroid found in certain medicinal herbs, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wild-yam\/\" target=\"_blank\">wild yam<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/vitamins\/fenugreek-review.html\" target=\"_blank\">fenugreek<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s a plant steroid that bears some resemblance to human sex steroids, and can serve as a precursor for their synthesis, but the necessary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/physics\/build-steroid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conversion steps take place only in the laboratory<\/a> &#8211; not the human body.\u00a0 Although diosgenin has potential medical uses (such as reducing serum cholesterol), it does not have any known hormonal effects when consumed in supplemental form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diosgenin is a plant steroid found in certain medicinal herbs, such as wild yam and fenugreek.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s a plant steroid that bears some resemblance to human sex steroids, and [&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":[366,432,872,989],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460"}],"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=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}