Turmeric and Reduced Body Weight

• The Role of Anthocyanins, Curcumin, and Resveratrol in the Prevention and Management of Metabolic Disorders: A Systematic Review.

  • 2026-05-26
  • Systematic Review
  • Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 31(11)
  • • Patrycja Gazda
    • Paweł Glibowski

  • PubMed: 42280140
  • DOI: 10.3390/molecules31111837

  13 Insights on

  • Reduced Body Weight

  • High evidence

  Curcumin supplementation was associated with decreases in body weight (up to 0.82 kg)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  not stated

• Effects of curcumin on anthropometric measurements in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: An umbrella meta-analysis study.

  • 2026-05-08
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Medicine 105(19)
  • • Abinash Mahapatro
    • Herby Jeanty
    • Saisree Reddy Adla Jala
    • Kavya Priya Somu
    • Gautam Madineni
    • Elan Mohanty
    • Mohammed Dheyaa Marsool
    • Pourya Shamsi
    • Maryam Shahriari Namin
    • Shahin Abbaszadeh
    • Parsa Saberian
    • Ehsan Amini-Salehi
    • Arezoo Ghazalgoo

  • PubMed: 42116302
  • DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000048629

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Body Weight

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  curcumin significantly reduced weight (SMD: -0.12; 95% CI: -0.19 to -0.04, P < .01) with moderate power (1-β = 0.56) and moderate epidemiological strength

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes