Black Ginger for brown fat, weight-loss and life extension

Black Ginger's Magic: brown fat activation for weight-loss and life extension

By tongkatali.org
Updated May 1, 2023

Black Ginger (scientific name: Kaempferia Parviflora) will make you lose fat. That is a scientific fact, established in human, double-blind, placebo-controled studies.

URL of the above study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/
PMC6120512/

The study has been picked up in the general media.

URL of the above reference: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1549407/visceral-fat-how-to-lose-black-ginger-reduce-belly-fat

The following study established that the anti-obesity effect of Black Ginger is linked to the activation of BAT = brown adipose tissue = brown fat.

URL of the above study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25493179/

The pharmaceutical industry has taken note, and is trying to develop brown adipose tissue activating drugs to treat obesity and diabetes.

URL of the above journal article: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ben/cdr
/2016/00000012/00000004/art00011

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