{"id":74,"date":"2008-12-11T06:46:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T13:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/forskolin.php"},"modified":"2015-02-23T13:23:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T18:23:26","slug":"forskolin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/forskolin\/","title":{"rendered":"Forskolin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The active ingredient in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/coleus-forskohlii\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coleus forskohlii<\/a> &#8211; an ancient Ayurvedic medicinal plant.\u00a0 Forskolin stimulates production of a\u00a0cellular &#8220;messenger&#8221; &#8211; cAMP (cyclic AMP) &#8211; which, in turn, stimulates production of\u00a0hormone sensitive lipase (HSL), an enzyme\u00a0involved in the breakdown of stored fat.\u00a0 Forskolin (typically in the form of standardized extracts) is a common ingredient in fat loss supplements.\u00a0 Most of the\u00a0studies published on\u00a0forskolin have\u00a0used cell cultures, although\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/aj\/formerly_published.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one peer-reviewed study<\/a>\u00a0shows (modest)\u00a0effects\u00a0in humans, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The active ingredient in Coleus forskohlii &#8211; an ancient Ayurvedic medicinal plant.\u00a0 Forskolin stimulates production of a\u00a0cellular &#8220;messenger&#8221; &#8211; cAMP (cyclic AMP) &#8211; which, in turn, stimulates production [&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":[147,219,292,423,450,528,617,982],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}