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New Study! Berberine’s Positive Effects on Arterial Plaque!

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Intro

This week I review a July 2022 study on berberine and it's effects on reducing arterial plaque after 16 weeks of use.

Berberine (BBR) is an active compound isolated from Chinese traditional medicine Coptidis Rhizoma and has been used to treat bacterial-caused diarrhoea as an over-the-counter (OTC) drug in China for decades.

In Conclusion, scientists recently found berberine can decrease arterial plaque in the carotid artery by some 3.2% after 16 weeks of use!

"21 patients with atherosclerosis exhibited the average decrease of plaque score by 3.2% after oral BBR (500 mg, twice daily) for 4 months (*P < 0.05, n = 21)."

This potentially could be a safe and effective use to help reduce arterial plaque and is worth looking into!

Study link:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-022-01027-6



Brian (1s):

Hello and welcome to the Get Lean and Eat Clean podcast. My name is Brian Grn. I'm a certified health coach, trainer and author, and this podcast is for middle-aged men and women looking to optimize their health and get their bodies back to what it once was 10 to 15 years ago. I will give you simple, actionable items to get long-term sustainable results. Thanks for listening and enjoy the show. All right, welcome to the Get Lean e Clean podcast. My name is Brian Grn. Hope you had a great weekend and happy Tuesday if you're listening this on Tuesday hopefully.

Brian (42s):

That's in my interview with Carrie Bennett. We touched on all about her quantum health strategies and how improved her mood and energy, things such as grounding morning sunlight, exclusion zone water. We touched on mitochondrial support through infrared saunas and much, much more. So definitely check out my interview with Carrie Bennett and on today's micro podcast, I'm gonna touch on a study regarding berberine and its effects on arterial plaque. Now, berberine's a natural product that's been used in Chinese medicine for over 3000 years. It actually originally was used to treat diarrhea anti, it was, it was the bacterial cause diarrhea as an over-the-counter drug in China for decades.

Brian (1m 26s):

And so they, this group that, this study's been studying it since 2004 and they've, they've found that it's been safe and effective medicine for hyperlipidemia, excuse me, and type two diabetes. So definitely if you wanna check out the study, I'm gonna put a link in the show notes. You can read a little bit more into it. I'm gonna sort of give you the high level, but the, one of the main conclusions was the fact that scientists found that berberine can decrease arterial plaque in the cur curated artery by some 3.2% after 16 weeks of use. They write that 21 patients with atherosclerosis exhibited the average decrease of plaque score by 3.2% after oral burberine 500, a hundred milligram grams, excuse me, 500 milligrams twice daily for four months.

Brian (2m 19s):

So pretty interesting cool study here. I'll leave a a link in the show notes so you can read a little bit more. But you know, it's been something that's been used in Chinese medicine forever and now it's starting to come to the states a little bit more. There was also some cool things in the study that you can check out where it showed the plaque size in patients with ath atherosclerosis and how it decreased over a four month treatment period. So the thing about atherosclerosis, it's very difficult to treat once the platforms and like currently the regimen mainly in the states for the most part is a combination of statins and anticoagulant drugs such as aspirin.

Brian (3m 3s):

But essentially they're trying to look for more safe and effective ways to help with atherosclerosis. And so the conclusion really from the study was that berberine, the result from these atherosclerotic patients was something that they're gonna try start using for future treatment and prevention of plaque formation in clinical practice. So really interesting study and if you wanna read more, like I said, I'll put put it in the show notes. If you have any questions, feel free to put it in the comments, but thought this was would be a beneficial sort of natural study that was done fairly recently.

Brian (3m 43s):

And so thanks so much for listening. If you have any questions, like I said, you could email me to Brian Brian Green dot com. I hope you have a great rest of the week and I will talk to you on Friday with another great interview. Thanks for listening to the Get Lean ean podcast. I understand there are millions of other podcasts out there and you've chosen to listen to mine and I appreciate that. Check out the show notes@briangrin.com for everything that was mentioned in this episode. Feel free to subscribe to the podcast and share it with a friend or family member that's looking to get their body back to what it once was. Thanks again and have a great day.

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