Icelandic Kelp and Reduced Triglyceride Levels

• Effects of Palmaria palmata on lipid metabolism and glycemic control in participants with hypercholesterolemia in a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial.

  • 2020-04-03
  • RCT · n = 104
  • Phytotherapy research : PTR 34(9)
  • • Takahiro Takase
    • Akinobu Nakamura
    • Hideaki Miyoshi
    • Minori Koga
    • Atsuhito Toyomaki
    • Ichiro Kusumi
    • Rikako Kino
    • Yasuyuki Konishi
    • Yoshinobu Kiso
    • Tatsuya Atsumi

  • PubMed: 32242987
  • DOI: 10.1002/ptr.6680

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  • Reduced Triglyceride Levels

  • High evidence
  • Large Human Trial
  • Clinical

  serum triglyceride showed significantly greater improvement in women in the P. palmata group (-9.0 [-25.0, +5.0]) vs. those in the placebo group (-1.0 [-11.0, +19.0]; p = .03)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  2 g/day

• The effect of consuming Palmaria palmata-enriched bread on inflammatory markers, antioxidant status, lipid profile and thyroid function in a randomised placebo-controlled intervention trial in healthy adults.

  • 2015-08-08
  • RCT
  • European journal of nutrition 55(5)
  • • Philip Allsopp
    • William Crowe
    • Bojlul Bahar
    • Pádraigín A Harnedy
    • Emma S Brown
    • Sonja S Taylor
    • Thomas J Smyth
    • Anna Soler-Vila
    • Pamela J Magee
    • Chris I R Gill
    • Conall R Strain
    • Vicky Hegan
    • Martin Devaney
    • Julie M W Wallace
    • Paul Cherry
    • Richard J FitzGerald
    • J J Strain
    • John V O'Doherty
    • Emeir M McSorley

  • PubMed: 26254196
  • DOI: 10.1007/s00394-015-1011-1

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  • Reduced Triglyceride Levels

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal

  Consumption of P. Palmata-enriched bread significantly increased ... triglycerides (+31.9 %, P = 0.001)

  Effect

  Harmful

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  5 g/day