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Lose weight by 10 kilos in 3 months by supplementing with Cyperus rotundus
During periods when food was scarce, people ate nut grass - scientific name: Cyperus rotundus - as famine food for centuries. In this obesogenic era, when food is fortunately far from scarce, we may use extracts from the same plant to protect ourselves against the consequences of excessive food intake. Oh irony.
Study
Researchers from the Sami-Sabinsa Group Limited, a manufacturer of plant extracts based in India, divided 30 adult and obese subjects into 2 groups. For 90 days, the subjects in the experimental group took a supplement containing 525 milligrams of Cyperus rotundus extract twice a day, half an hour before a meal. The test subjects therefore took a total of 1050 milligrams of extract per day.
The subjects in the placebo group took a placebo.
Cyperus rotundus
Cyperus rotundus is also called nut grass. It's edible. Traditional healers use extracts of the plant - often under the name 'musta' - as a fever reducer and as an antibiotic for gastrointestinal disorders.
The 'nuts' of Cyperus rotundus are the root tubers of the plant. Sabinsa makes an extract from these tubers, which Sabinda markets as Cirpusins. It consists of 5-6 percent of the resveratrol analogues piceatannol [A], scirpusine A [B] and scirpusine B [C].
Results
The subjects in the experimental group lost an average of 9.5 kilos of their body weight.
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Mechanism
In in vitro experiments, the extract inhibited the activity of genes such as the PPAR-gamma gene in young fat cells. These genes force fat cells to develop, grow and divide. You can see that above.
Adverse effects
As far as the researchers could see, supplementation with Cyperus rotundus had no side effects.
Source:
Diabetes Metab Syndr Obes. 2022 Feb 9:15:369-82.
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Piceatannol's body recompositioning effect 27.08.2013
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