Spirulina and Reduced Total Cholesterol

• Effects of spirulina supplementation alone or with exercise on cardiometabolic health in overweight and obese adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2025-06-27
  • Systematic Review · n = 35
  • Frontiers in nutrition 12
  • • Zhenliang Fu
    • Shibiao Zhou
    • Xueyan Gu

  • PubMed: 40655486
  • DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2025.1624982

  9 Insights on

  • Reduced Total Cholesterol

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  total cholesterol (g = -0.79, 95% CI: -1.18 to -0.41)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  not explicitly stated in abstract (varied by study: dosage, form)

• Spirulina's impacts on cardiovascular health: Insights from a systematic meta-analysis of RCT.

  • 2025-11
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Complementary therapies in medicine 94
  • • Hamidreza Shiri
    • Ali Akbar Soleimani
    • Behnam Omidi Sarajar
    • Abdolkarim Talebi Taheri
    • Fataneh Esmaeili
    • Mohammad Hadi Nematollahi
    • Mahmood Alizadeh Sani

  • PubMed: 40953712
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.ctim.2025.103242

  15 Insights on

  • Reduced Total Cholesterol

  • High evidence
  • Mixed

  TC: WMD: -11.5 (mg/dl); P < 0.001

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes