Pueraria Mirifica and Reduced Total Cholesterol Levels

• Pueraria mirifica phytoestrogens improve dyslipidemia in postmenopausal women probably by activating estrogen receptor subtypes.

  • 2008
  • RCT
  • The Tohoku journal of experimental medicine 216(4)
  • • Shinichi Okamura
    • Yoshie Sawada
    • Teturou Satoh
    • Hironosuke Sakamoto
    • Yuichiro Saito
    • Hiroyuki Sumino
    • Takako Takizawa
    • Toshiaki Kogure
    • Chiayo Chaichantipyuth
    • Yoshihiro Higuchi
    • Tsutomu Ishikawa
    • Tetsuo Sakamaki

  • PubMed: 19060449
  • DOI: 10.1620/tjem.216.341

  6 Insights on

  • Reduced Total Cholesterol Levels

  • High evidence
  • Adults

  a significant decrease in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and apo B (17% and 9%, respectively)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes