{"id":59,"date":"2008-12-04T20:01:34","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T03:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/octacosanol.php"},"modified":"2015-02-12T21:12:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T02:12:09","slug":"octacosanol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/octacosanol\/","title":{"rendered":"Octacosanol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A high molecular weight, waxy alcohol that&#8217;s one of the components of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/vitamins\/policosanol-review.html\" target=\"_blank\">policosanol<\/a>, a substance derived from sugar cane that&#8217;s been shown to reduce cholesterol in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/11253161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some studies<\/a>\u00a0but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/16705107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not in others<\/a>.\u00a0 Octacosanol has been touted as a performance enhancer, although there is minimal supporting data.\u00a0 Octacosanol has antioxidant effects and has been shown to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2266062\/?tool=pubmed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reduce lipid peroxidation in-vivo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high molecular weight, waxy alcohol that&#8217;s one of the components of policosanol, a substance derived from sugar cane that&#8217;s been shown to reduce cholesterol in some studies\u00a0but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[123,256,615,720,774,899],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}